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On Hodge-Riemann relations for translation-invariant valuations

Metric Geometry 2021-08-10 v2

Abstract

The Alesker product turns the space of smooth translation-invariant valuations on convex bodies into a commutative associative unital algebra, satisfying Poincar\'e duality and the hard Lefschetz theorem. In this article, a version of the Hodge-Riemann relations for the Alesker algebra is conjectured, and the conjecture is proved in two particular situations: for even valuations, and for 1-homogeneous valuations. The latter result is then used to deduce a special case of the Aleksandrov-Fenchel inequality. Finally, mixed versions of the hard Lefschetz theorem and of the Hodge-Riemann relations are conjectured, and it is shown that the Aleksandrov-Fenchel inequality follows from the latter in its full generality.

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@article{arxiv.2009.00310,
  title  = {On Hodge-Riemann relations for translation-invariant valuations},
  author = {Jan Kotrbatý},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.00310},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

19 pages. Minor corrections. To appear in Advances in Mathematics