Saroglou's lower-order projection-body minimizer conjecture

Let KK be a convex body in Rd\mathbb{R}^d. For i=1,,d1i=1,\dots,d-1, define the order-ii projection body ΠiK\Pi_iK using the mixed projection-body construction, and set

Pi(K):=V(ΠiK)V(K)i,Qi(K):=V(Πi(ΠK))V(K)i(d1).P_i(K):=\frac{V(\Pi_iK)}{V(K)^i},\qquad Q_i(K):=\frac{V\big(\Pi_i(\Pi K)\big)}{V(K)^{i(d-1)}}.

Saroglou's lower-order projection-body conjecture. For i=1,,d2i=1,\dots,d-2, the functionals Pi()P_i(\cdot) and Qi()Q_i(\cdot) are minimized precisely for Euclidean balls. The source notes that the i=d1i=d-1 case of PiP_i is Petty's conjecture and that this statement is open; it also identifies the Q1Q_1 case as a conjecture of Maresch and Schuster.

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Primary source

Christos Saroglou, “On the shape of a convex body with respect to its second projection body”, arXiv:1409.4347 (2014).

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