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Flag representations of mixed volumes and mixed functionals of convex bodies

Metric Geometry 2017-09-20 v2

Abstract

Mixed volumes V(K1,,Kd)V(K_1,\dots, K_d) of convex bodies K1,,KdK_1,\dots ,K_d in Euclidean space Rd\mathbb{R}^d are of central importance in the Brunn-Minkowski theory. Representations for mixed volumes are available in special cases, for example as integrals over the unit sphere with respect to mixed area measures. More generally, in Hug-Rataj-Weil (2013) a formula for V(K[n],M[dn])V(K [n], M[d-n]), n{1,,d1}n\in \{1,\dots ,d-1\}, as a double integral over flag manifolds was established which involved certain flag measures of the convex bodies KK and MM (and required a general position of the bodies). In the following, we discuss the general case V(K1[n1],,Kk[nk])V(K_1[n_1],\dots , K_k[n_k]), n1++nk=dn_1+\cdots +n_k=d, and show a corresponding result involving the flag measures Ωn1(K1;),,Ωnk(Kk;)\Omega_{n_1}(K_1;\cdot),\dots, \Omega_{n_k}(K_k;\cdot). For this purpose, we first establish a curvature representation of mixed volumes over the normal bundles of the bodies involved. We also obtain a corresponding flag representation for the mixed functionals from translative integral geometry and a local version, for mixed (translative) curvature measures.

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@article{arxiv.1705.04816,
  title  = {Flag representations of mixed volumes and mixed functionals of convex bodies},
  author = {Daniel Hug and Jan Rataj and Wolfgang Weil},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.04816},
  year   = {2017}
}