A general functional version of Gr\"unbaum's inequality
Abstract
A classical inequality by Gr\"unbaum provides a sharp lower bound for the ratio , where denotes the intersection of a convex body with non-empty interior with a halfspace bounded by a hyperplane passing through the centroid of . In this paper we extend this result to the case in which the hyperplane passes by any of the points lying in a whole uniparametric family of -powered centroids associated to (depending on a real parameter ), 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 to a supporting hyperplane of , 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}
}