Minimax volume conjecture for Steenrod-square cup powers on rectangles
Minimax volume conjecture for Steenrod-square cup powers on rectangles
Let be an -dimensional rectangle with side lengths . Let denote the minimax volume, let be the relevant cup-power cohomology class, and let denote the indicated Steenrod-square operation with parameter . For each integer , the conjecture is
Minimax volume conjecture. The minimax volume satisfies, up to a constant factor depending only on ,
Such an estimate would provide lower bounds for the -dilation of degree-one maps between rectangles and, in particular, would imply the stated rectangular lower bound. The source presents this as a conjectural estimate; no resolution is given here.
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Primary source
Larry Guth, “Minimax problems related to cup powers and Steenrod squares”, arXiv:math/0702066 (2008).
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