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Gr\"unbaum's inequality for sections

Metric Geometry 2017-11-06 v1

Abstract

We show \begin{align*} \frac{ \int_{E \cap \theta^+} f(x) dx }{ \int_E f(x) dx } \geq \left(\frac{k \gamma+1}{(n+1) \gamma+1}\right)^{\frac{k \gamma+1}{\gamma}} \end{align*} for all kk-dimensional subspaces ERnE\subset\mathbb{R}^n, θESn1\theta\in E\cap S^{n-1}, and all γ\gamma-concave functions f:Rn[0,)f:\mathbb{R}^n\rightarrow [0,\infty) with γ>0\gamma >0, 0<Rnf(x)dx<0< \int_{\mathbb{R}^n} f(x)\, dx <\infty, and Rnxf(x)dx\int_{\mathbb{R}^n} x f(x)\, dx at the origin oRno\in\mathbb{R}^n. Here, θ+:={x:x,θ0}\theta^+ := \lbrace x\, : \, \langle x,\theta\rangle \geq 0 \rbrace. As a consequence of this result, we get the following generalization of Gr\"unbaum's inequality: \begin{align*} \frac{ \mbox{vol}_k(K\cap E\cap\theta^+) }{ \mbox{vol}_k(K\cap E) } \geq \left( \frac{k}{n+1} \right)^k \end{align*} for all convex bodies KRnK\subset\mathbb{R}^n with centroid at the origin, kk-dimensional subspaces ERnE\subset\mathbb{R}^n, and θESn1\theta\in E\cap S^{n-1}. The lower bounds in both of our inequalities are the best possible, and we discuss the equality conditions.

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@article{arxiv.1711.00998,
  title  = {Gr\"unbaum's inequality for sections},
  author = {Sergii Myroshnychenko and Matthew Stephen and Ning Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.00998},
  year   = {2017}
}

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17 pages, 3 figures

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