Ball–Frenkel strong polarization conjecture

Let v1,,vnSd1v_1,\dots,v_n\in\mathbb{S}^{d-1} be a set of unit vectors. Then there exists a unit vector uSd1u\in\mathbb{S}^{d-1} such that

j=1n1vj,u2n2.\sum_{j=1}^n\frac{1}{\langle v_j,u\rangle^2}\leq n^2.

Strong polarization conjecture. The inequality above holds for every set of nn vectors in Sd1\mathbb{S}^{d-1}.

The abstract states that the authors prove this conjecture, so it is solved; the paper also reports new extremizers arising from Coxeter systems.

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Ángel D. Martínez and Oscar Ortega-Moreno, “Polarization problems and Coxeter systems”, arXiv:2605.28744 (2026).

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