A counterexample to Viterbo’s conjecture
Pages 603-622 from Volume 203 (2026), Issue 2 by Pazit Haim-Kislev, Yaron Ostrover
Abstract
We present a counterexample to Viterbo’s volume-capacity conjecture. This implies, in particular, that in contrast with a well-known conjecture, symplectic capacities do not coincide on the class of convex domains in the classical phase space.
Received: 3 July 2024
Revised: 6 October 2025
Accepted: 8 October 2025
Published online: 1 March 2026
Authors
Pazit Haim-Kislev
School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA
Yaron Ostrover
School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel