Alexandrov-Fenchel inequality for odd curvature integrals

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Let n≥3n\geq 3, let kk be an integer satisfying 2k+1≤n−12k+1\leq n-1, and let Σ\Sigma be a hypersurface in hyperbolic space Hn\mathbb{H}^n with nonnegative sectional curvature. Write pjp_j for the normalized jj-th elementary symmetric curvature of Σ\Sigma, ∣Σ∣|\Sigma| for its area, and let ωn−1\omega_{n-1} denote the area of the unit (n−1)(n-1)-sphere.

Alexandrov-Fenchel inequality. One should have

∫Σp2k+1≥ωn−1[(∣Σ∣ωn−1)22k+1+(∣Σ∣ωn−1)22k+1n−2−2kn−1]2k+12.\int_{\Sigma} p_{2k+1}\geq \omega_{n-1}\left[\left(\frac{|\Sigma|}{\omega_{n-1}}\right)^{\frac{2}{2k+1}}+\left(\frac{|\Sigma|}{\omega_{n-1}}\right)^{\frac{2}{2k+1}\frac{n-2-2k}{n-1}}\right]^{\frac{2k+1}{2}}.

Equality should hold if and only if Σ\Sigma is a geodesic sphere in Hn\mathbb{H}^n.

This proposes an Alexandrov-Fenchel-type inequality under nonnegative sectional curvature, extending the preceding inequality for ∫Σp1\int_{\Sigma}p_1. The paper presents it as an open conjecture; whether the relevant curvature conditions are preserved along inverse mean curvature flow remains an open problem.

References

Primary source

Yingxiang Hu and Haizhong Li, “Geometric inequalities for hypersurfaces with nonnegative sectional curvature in hyperbolic space”, arXiv:1807.04653 (2018).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2016–2018). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1609.05806.

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