The thin-shell conjecture for isotropic logconcave measures

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

σTS2(n)=supisotropic π1nVarπ(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.

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

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