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On Mahler's conjecture for even s-concave functions in dimensions 1 and 2

Functional Analysis 2025-06-26 v2 Metric Geometry

Abstract

In this paper, we establish different sharp forms of Mahler's conjecture for ss-concave even functions in dimensions nn, for n=1n=1 and 22, for s>1/ns>-1/n, thus generalizing our previous results in \cite{FN} on log-concave even functions in dimension 2, which corresponds to the case s=0s=0. The functional volume product of an even ss-concave function gg is Rng(x)dxRnLsg(y)dy, \int_{\mathbb{R}^{n}}g(x)dx\int_{\mathbb{R}^{n}}\mathcal{L}_{s}g(y)dy, where Lsg\mathcal{L}_{s}g is the ss-polar function associated to gg. The analogue of Mahler's conjecture for even ss-concave functions postulates that this quantity is minimized for the indicatrix of a cube for any s>1/ns>-1/n. In dimension n=1n=1, we prove this conjecture for all s(1,0)s\in(-1,0) (the case s0s\ge0 was established by the first author and Mathieu Meyer in \cite[page 17]{FM10}). In dimension n=2n=2, we only consider the case 1/sZ1/s\in\mathbb{Z}: for s>0s>0, we establish Mahler's conjecture for general ss-concave even functions; for s<0s<0, the situation is more involved, we only prove a sharp inequality for ss-concave functions gg such that gsg^s admits an asymptote in every direction. Notice that this set of functions is quite natural to consider, when s<0s<0, since it is the largest subset of ss-concave functions stable by ss-duality.

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@article{arxiv.2412.12372,
  title  = {On Mahler's conjecture for even s-concave functions in dimensions 1 and 2},
  author = {Matthieu Fradelizi and Elie Nakhle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.12372},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

light revision after referee's report