Sarnak's extremal height conjecture for flat tori

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Let TT be an nn-dimensional flat torus of volume 11, represented by a lattice in Euclidean space. Let the height of TT be ζ(0)\zeta'(0), equivalently the negative logarithm of its zeta-regularized determinant, and let the minimal vector of a lattice be a nonzero lattice vector of shortest length. Sarnak's conjecture. Among all nn-dimensional flat tori of volume 11, the height is minimized by the torus corresponding to the lattice with the longest minimal vector. This conjecture proposes that the global extremum of the determinant is governed by the geometry of the shortest lattice vector; the source records known low-dimensional extremal results but does not state a general resolution.

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Fabio Francesconi and Julie Rowlett, “Global Extrema of the Zeta Regularized Determinant on Orthogonal Flat Tori”, arXiv:2606.21442 (2026).

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