Filliman's extremal projection conjecture for the regular simplex
Filliman's extremal projection conjecture for the regular simplex
Let be the regular -simplex in . Fix , and let be a -dimensional subspace such that is a -dimensional simplex. Suppose the vertices of project only onto the vertices of , as evenly as possible: if is the number projecting onto vertex of , then, writing with , one has
Filliman's conjecture. The minimum -dimensional projection volume is attained by :
Moreover, for , the maximum -dimensional projection volume is attained by :
The conjecture proposes the extremal volumes for projections of the regular simplex onto complementary-dimensional subspaces; the stated source does not provide evidence resolving it, so its status remains open.
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Primary source
Christos Pandis, “On Extremal Volume Projections of the Simplex and the Cube”, arXiv:2601.18436 (2026).
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