Kolesnikov–Werner's many-body functional Blaschke–Santaló conjecture

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Let n1n\ge1 and k2k\ge2. Let ρ:RR+\rho:\mathbb R\to\mathbb R_+ be non-increasing, and let f1,,fk:RnR+f_1,\ldots,f_k:\mathbb R^n\to\mathbb R_+ be even integrable functions. For

S2(x1,,xk)=1i<jkxi,xj,\mathcal{S}_2(x_1,\ldots,x_k)=\sum_{1\le i<j\le k}\langle x_i,x_j\rangle,

assume

i=1kfi(xi)ρ(S2(x1,,xk))\prod_{i=1}^k f_i(x_i)\le \rho\bigl(\mathcal{S}_2(x_1,\ldots,x_k)\bigr)

for all x1,,xkRnx_1,\ldots,x_k\in\mathbb R^n. Kolesnikov–Werner's conjecture. There is a constant CkC_k such that

i=1kRnfi(x)dx(Rnρ(Cku2)1/kdu)k.\prod_{i=1}^k\int_{\mathbb R^n}f_i(x)\,\mathrm d x\le\left(\int_{\mathbb R^n}\rho\bigl(C_k|u|^2\bigr)^{1/k}\,\mathrm d u\right)^k.

This extends the two-function functional Blaschke–Santaló inequality to many-body pairwise interactions. It is known for k=2k=2, for unconditional functions, and in the Gaussian case (even without symmetry assumptions in the later entropic result), while the general case remains open.

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Primary source

Shibing Chen, Yuanyuan Li, Dongmeng Xi and Zhe-Feng Xu, “The many-body Blaschke-Santaló type inequality via optimal transport”, arXiv:2606.30579 (2026).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2022–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2401.00427, arXiv:2203.14815.

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