Viterbo's isocapacitary conjecture for convex bodies

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Let K,QeothingK,Q e othing be convex bodies in Rn\mathbb{R}^n, and let c(K×Q)c(K\times Q) denote the symplectic capacity of their Lagrangian product. Viterbo's isocapacitary conjecture. The Lagrangian product satisfies

vol⁡(K×Q)≥c(K×Q)nn!.\operatorname{vol}(K\times Q)\geq\frac{c(K\times Q)^n}{n!}.

This is a natural isoperimetric inequality in symplectic geometry and is related to the problem of finding smallest QQ-covers. The paper discusses counterexamples to the conjecture in its greatest generality, so the stated general claim is refuted.

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Alexey Balitskiy, Ivan Mitrofanov and Alexander Polyanskii, “Triangle covering problems and the Viterbo inequality in the plane”, arXiv:2603.12495 (2026).

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