Four-periodic infinite staircase conjecture for four-dimensional polydisks

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Let nZ2n\in\mathbb{Z}_{\geq 2} and define

βn=12+(2n+1)n(n3+2n21)2n(n+1).\beta_n=\frac{1}{2}+\frac{(2n+1)\sqrt{n(n^3+2n^2-1)}}{2n(n+1)}.

Let cβnc_{\beta_n} denote the capacity function associated with the four-dimensional polydisk, and let accum(βn)\operatorname{accum}(\beta_n) denote the accumulation point of its infinite staircase. Four-periodic infinite staircase conjecture. The function cβnc_{\beta_n} has an infinite staircase, and it is four-periodic, with

accum(βn)=[{2n+4,2n+2,2n,2n2}].\operatorname{accum}(\beta_n)=[\{2n+4,2n+2,2n,2n-2\}^{\infty}].

This is expected from experimental evidence and from combining the conjectured generalization in the paper with a theorem of McDuff, McDuff, and Weiler. The claim extends the specific four-periodic infinite staircase established in the paper to every integer n2n\geq 2; its general case remains open.

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Caden Farley, Tara Holm, Nicki Magill, Jemma Schroder, Morgan Weiler, Zichen Wang and Elizaveta Zabelina, “Four-periodic infinite staircases for four-dimensional polydisks”, arXiv:2210.15069 (2023).

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