Mahler's symmetric volume-product conjecture

Let KK be a centrally symmetric convex body in cmathbbRncmathbb{R}^{n}, and let P(K)\mathcal{P}(K) denote its volume product. Let BnB_{\infty}^{n} be the unit ball of the \ell_{\infty} norm. Symmetric Mahler's conjecture.

P(K)P(Bn)=4nn!.\mathcal{P}(K) \geq \mathcal{P}(B_{\infty}^{n}) = \frac{4^{n}}{n!}.

This is the famous lower-bound conjecture for the volume product of centrally symmetric convex bodies; the source does not state a resolution status.

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Primary source

Arkadiy Aliev, “Mahler-type volume inequality for convex bodies with tetrahedral symmetry”, arXiv:2511.14991 (2025).

Additional references

17 papers in this index state this conjecture (1998–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2507.22284, arXiv:2411.10439, arXiv:2410.02715, arXiv:2308.02909, arXiv:2307.04393, arXiv:2304.00120, arXiv:2212.02866, arXiv:2211.14630, arXiv:2203.13990, arXiv:2103.09356, arXiv:2007.08736, arXiv:1801.00167, and 4 more.

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