Filliman's extremal projection conjecture for the regular simplex

Let Δn\Delta_n be the regular nn-simplex in Rn\mathbb{R}^n. Fix 1kn1\leq k\leq n, and let HH_{\ast} be a kk-dimensional subspace such that T=ProjH(Δn)T_{\ast}=\operatorname{Proj}_{H_{\ast}}(\Delta_n) is a kk-dimensional simplex. Suppose the vertices of Δn\Delta_n project only onto the vertices of TT_{\ast}, as evenly as possible: if wiw_i is the number projecting onto vertex ii of TT_{\ast}, then, writing n+1=(k+1)+rn+1=(k+1)\ell+r with r{0,,k}r\in\{0,\ldots,k\}, one has

wi={+1,1ir,,r<ik+1.w_i=\begin{cases}\ell+1,&1\leq i\leq r,\ell,&r<i\leq k+1. \end{cases}

Filliman's conjecture. The minimum kk-dimensional projection volume is attained by TT_{\ast}:

minHRndimH=kvolk(ProjH(Δn))=volk(T).\min_{\substack{H\subset\mathbb{R}^n\dim H=k}}\operatorname{vol}_k(\operatorname{Proj}_H(\Delta_n))=\operatorname{vol}_k(T_{\ast}).

Moreover, for T=ProjH(Δn)T^{\ast}=\operatorname{Proj}_{H_{\ast}^{\perp}}(\Delta_n), the maximum (nk)(n-k)-dimensional projection volume is attained by TT^{\ast}:

maxHRndimH=nkvolnk(ProjH(Δn))=volnk(T).\max_{\substack{H\subset\mathbb{R}^n\dim H=n-k}}\operatorname{vol}_{n-k}(\operatorname{Proj}_H(\Delta_n))=\operatorname{vol}_{n-k}(T^{\ast}).

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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