Unbalanced difference-body conjecture for simplices

Let KRnK\subset\mathbb{R}^n be a convex body, let λ(0,1)\lambda\in(0,1), and define the unbalanced difference body

DλK=(1λ)K+λ(K).D_\lambda K=(1-\lambda)K+\lambda(-K).

Let Δ\Delta be an nn-dimensional simplex. Unbalanced difference-body conjecture. One has

Vol(DλK)Vol(K)Vol(DλΔ)Vol(Δ),\frac{\operatorname{Vol}(D_\lambda K)}{\operatorname{Vol}(K)}\leq \frac{\operatorname{Vol}(D_\lambda\Delta)}{\operatorname{Vol}(\Delta)},

with equality if and only if KK is an nn-simplex.

At λ=12\lambda=\frac12, this specializes, up to scaling, to the Rogers–Shephard difference-body setting. The conjecture would follow from Godbersen's conjecture, but the stated assertion is not established in the source and remains open.

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Primary source

Shiri Artstein-Avidan and Eli Putterman, “On unbalanced difference bodies and Godbersen's conjecture”, arXiv:2412.05308 (2026).

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