Mahler 猜想The Mahler conjecture
Mahler 猜想起源于 1938 年:凸体 K 与极体 K° 的体积乘积,在原点对称情形下猜想由立方体取到最小值;一般情形下,K 内部含原点,猜想由质心在原点的单纯形取到最小值。Mahler 证明了这两个不等式的二维情形。A. D. Aleksandrov 于 1967 年独立提出了一般情形的猜想。 The Mahler conjecture dates back to 1938: the volume product of K and its polar K° is conjectured to be minimised by cubes in the origin-symmetric case, and by simplices with centroid at the origin in the general case, where K contains the origin in its interior. Mahler proved both inequalities in dimension two. A. D. Aleksandrov independently formulated the general case in 1967.
2026 年与陈世炳、李媛媛、徐哲锋合作,建立了 shadow flow 方法,解决了三维的一般情形。 A 2026 preprint with Shibing Chen, Yuanyuan Li and Zhe-Feng Xu develops the shadow-flow method and settles the general case in dimension three.
三维一般情形General case, dimension 3V(K) V(K°)≥649同一框架还给出了三维对称情形的新的纯几何证明;该情形由 Iriyeh 与 Shibata 首先证明。 The same framework gives a new, purely geometric proof of the symmetric case in dimension three, first proved by Iriyeh and Shibata.
三维对称Symmetric, dimension 3V(K) V(K°)≥323- Chen, Li, Xi, Xu. The Mahler conjecture in three dimensions. arXiv:2605.09334 (2026)