Godbersen's conjecture for mixed volumes of a convex body and its reflection

Let KRnK\subset\mathbb{R}^n be a convex body, and let VV denote mixed volume, with K[k]K[k] denoting kk copies of KK. Godbersen's conjecture. For each convex body KRnK\subset\mathbb{R}^n and each 0kn0\leq k\leq n one has

V(K[k],K[nk])(nk)voln(K).V(-K[k],K[n-k])\leq {n\choose k}\operatorname{vol}_n(K).

Moreover, if 0<k<n0<k<n and KK has nonempty interior, equality holds if and only if KK is a simplex. This conjecture refines the Rogers--Shephard inequality term by term; it is known in several special cases, including anti-blocking convex bodies, but is not resolved in general.

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Primary source

Jan Kotrbatý, “On a generalization of Godbersen's conjecture”, arXiv:2502.02149 (2025).

Additional references

6 papers in this index state this conjecture (2014–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2412.05308, arXiv:2406.00278, arXiv:2312.03473, arXiv:1703.06403, arXiv:1408.2135.

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