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A general functional version of Gr\"unbaum's inequality

Metric Geometry 2024-04-15 v1 Functional Analysis

Abstract

A classical inequality by Gr\"unbaum provides a sharp lower bound for the ratio vol(K)/vol(K)\mathrm{vol}(K^{-})/\mathrm{vol}(K), where KK^{-} denotes the intersection of a convex body with non-empty interior KRnK\subset\mathbb{R}^n with a halfspace bounded by a hyperplane HH passing through the centroid g(K)\mathrm{g}(K) of KK. In this paper we extend this result to the case in which the hyperplane HH passes by any of the points lying in a whole uniparametric family of rr-powered centroids associated to KK (depending on a real parameter r0r\geq0), by proving a more general functional result on concave functions. The latter result further connects (and allows one to recover) various inequalities involving the centroid, such as a classical inequality (due to Minkowski and Radon) that relates the distance of g(K)\mathrm{g}(K) to a supporting hyperplane of KK, or a result for volume sections of convex bodies proven independently by Makai Jr. & Martini and Fradelizi.

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@article{arxiv.2404.08319,
  title  = {A general functional version of Gr\"unbaum's inequality},
  author = {David Alonso-Gutiérrez and Francisco Marín Sola and Javier Martín Goñi and Jesús Yepes Nicolás},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.08319},
  year   = {2024}
}
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