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Further inequalities for the (generalized) Wills functional

Metric Geometry 2020-02-17 v3

Abstract

The Wills functional W(K)\mathcal{W}(K) of a convex body KK, defined as the sum of its intrinsic volumes Vi(K)\mathrm{V}_i(K), turns out to have many interesting applications and properties. In this paper we make profit of the fact that it can be represented as the integral of a log-concave function, which, furthermore, is the Asplund product of other two log-concave functions, and obtain new properties of the Wills functional (indeed, we will work in a more general setting). Among others, we get upper bounds for W(K)\mathcal{W}(K) in terms of the volume of KK, as well as Brunn-Minkowski and Rogers-Shephard type inequalities for this functional. We also show that the cube of edge-length 2 maximizes W(K)\mathcal{W}(K) among all 00-symmetric convex bodies in John position, and we reprove the well-known McMullen inequality W(K)eV1(K)\mathcal{W}(K)\leq e^{\mathrm{V}_1(K)} using a different approach.

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@article{arxiv.1912.07993,
  title  = {Further inequalities for the (generalized) Wills functional},
  author = {David Alonso-Gutiérrez and María A. Hernández Cifre and Jesús Yepes Nicolás},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.07993},
  year   = {2020}
}

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Some misprints corrected. Results unchanged

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