The ellipsoidal maximization conjecture for the polar second moment

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Let KRnK\subseteq\mathbb{R}^n be centrally symmetric, let KK^\circ be its polar body, and let (x,y)(\vec{x},\vec{y}) be uniformly distributed on K×KK\times K^\circ. Polar second-moment conjecture. The quantity

EK×K[(xy)2]E_{K\times K^\circ}[(\vec{x}\cdot\vec{y})^2]

is maximized when KK is an ellipsoid.

The conjecture would imply the centrally symmetric isotropic constant conjecture and would sharpen the Blaschke–Santaló theorem. The paper therefore describes it as difficult and perhaps less likely, but leaves it open.

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Greg Kuperberg, “From the Mahler conjecture to Gauss linking integrals”, arXiv:math/0610904 (2008).

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