The thin-shell conjecture for isotropic logconcave measures

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For an isotropic logconcave probability measure π\pi on Rn\mathbb{R}^{n}, define the thin-shell constant by

σTS2(n)=sup⁡isotropic π1nVar⁡π(∥⋅∥2).\sigma_{\mathsf{TS}}^{2}(n)=\sup_{\text{isotropic }\pi}\frac{1}{n}\operatorname{Var}_{\pi}(\|\cdot\|^{2}).

Thin-shell conjecture. The thin-shell constant is universally bounded:

σn2=O(1).\sigma_{n}^{2}=O(1).

The source describes this conjecture as resolved in July 2025, so its database status is recorded as solved.

References

Primary source

Yunbum Kook and Santosh S. Vempala, “The Localization Method for High-Dimensional Inequalities”, arXiv:2512.10848 (2026).

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