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Mikhail Katz
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How big can a wedge of four 2-forms be?

As a follow-up to the earlier post How big can a wedge of 2-forms be?, I have not been able to prove the analogous result for a wedge product $a\wedge b\wedge c\wedge d$ of 2-forms in $\mathbb R^8$. If one of the forms occurs twice then one can use an endomorphism $M_{\alpha^{\wedge2}}$ of $\bigwedge^2(\mathbb R^8)$ as in the earlier post, so as to obtain the tight bound $4!$, but otherwise I can only find an upper bound of $64$ (which is better than $8!/2^4=2520$). What is the maximal value one obtains for a product of four 2-forms of unit comass in $\mathbb R^8$?

Mikhail Katz
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