Quotient Star Bodies, Intersection Bodies, and Star Duality

Detecting Symmetry in Star Bodies

Let K be a convex body in R, i.e. a compact convex set with a non-empty interior. We say that K is origin-symmetric if K = −K. The presence of origin-symmetry is an essential assumption in various problems. Many results that hold for origin-symmetric convex bodies fail in the absence of the symmetry condition. For example, origin-symmetric convex bodies are uniquely determined by the volumes of...

New inequalities for star bodies

The Cramer-rao Inequality for Star Bodies

Associated with each body K in Euclidean n-space Rn is an ellipsoid 02K called the Legendre ellipsoid of K . It can be defined as the unique ellipsoid centered at the body’s center of mass such that the ellipsoid’s moment of inertia about any axis passing through the center of mass is the same as that of the body. In an earlier paper the authors showed that corresponding to each convex body K ⊂...

Intersection Bodies and Valuations

All GL (n) covariant star-body-valued valuations on convex polytopes are completely classified. It is shown that there is a unique nontrivial such valuation. This valuation turns out to be the so-called “intersection operator”—an operator that played a critical role in the solution of the Busemann-Petty problem. Introduction. A function Z defined on the set K of convex bodies (that is, of conve...

Volume difference inequalities for the projection and intersection bodies

In this paper, we introduce a new concept of volumes difference function of the projection and intersection bodies. Following this, we establish the Minkowski and Brunn-Minkowski inequalities for volumes difference function of the projection and intersection bodies.