Braverman–Makarychev–Makarychev–Naor conjecture on an explicit Krivine rounding scheme

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Let h5h_5 be the fifth-degree Hermite polynomial, and for η>0\eta>0 define functions on R2\mathbb{R}^2 by

fη(x)=gη(x)=sign(x2ηh5(x1)).f_\eta(x)=g_\eta(x)=\operatorname{sign}(x_2-\eta h_5(x_1)).

Braverman–Makarychev–Makarychev–Naor conjecture. There exists η>0\eta>0 such that fηf_\eta and gηg_\eta form a Krivine rounding scheme and

c(fη,fη)>2πlog(1+2).c(f_\eta,f_\eta)>\frac{2}{\pi}\log(1+\sqrt{2}).

Equivalently, Grothendieck's inequality can be proved with the bound in the source without the auxiliary randomization step and the parameter 0<p<10<p<1. The conjecture proposes an explicit Krivine rounding scheme that would remove the extra randomization used in the cited proof.

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Steven Heilman, “An Upper Bound on Grothendieck's Constant”, arXiv:2606.00247 (2026).

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