Bezdek's intrinsic-volume conjecture for ball bodies with fixed inradius

Let d>1d>1, r>0r>0, and 0<kd20<k\leq d-2. An rr-ball body is an intersection of finitely many balls of radius rr in Ed\mathbb{E}^d; its inradius is the radius of the largest ball contained in it. An rr-lens is the intersection of two balls of radius rr. Bezdek's intrinsic-volume conjecture. Among rr-ball bodies of a given inradius in Ed\mathbb{E}^d, the rr-lens is the only one whose kk-th intrinsic volume is maximal. The surface-area and volume cases discussed immediately beforehand support this conjecture, while the stated range 0<kd20<k\leq d-2 remains conjectural.

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Károly Bezdek, Zsolt Lángi and Márton Naszódi, “Selected topics from the theory of intersections of balls”, arXiv:2411.10302 (2025).

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