Gromov's vanishing conjecture for functorial seminorms

Let a functorial seminorm assign to every topological space XX a seminorm on singular homology with real coefficients, such that for every continuous map f ⁣:XYf\colon X\to Y and every homology class α\alpha one has

f(α)α.\|f_*(\alpha)\|\leq\|\alpha\|.

Gromov's conjecture. Every functorial seminorm on singular homology with real coefficients vanishes for simply connected spaces.

The conjecture generalizes the vanishing of the seminorm induced by the 1\ell^1-norm on simply connected spaces. The source gives no resolution status.

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Clara Loeh, “The Proportionality Principle of Simplicial Volume”, arXiv:math/0504106 (2005).

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