Schneider's support conjecture for mixed area measures

Let C1,,Cn1C_1,\ldots,C_{n-1} be convex bodies in Rn\mathbb{R}^n. For I[n1]I\subseteq[n-1], write CI=iICiC_I=\sum_{i\in I}C_i, and let T(CI,u)T(C_I,u) denote the touching cone of CIC_I with normal direction uu. A point uSn1u\in S^{n-1} is (C1,,Cn1)(C_1,\ldots,C_{n-1})-extreme if

dim(T(CI,u))I\dim\big(T(C_I,u)^\perp\big)\geq |I|

for every I[n1]I\subseteq[n-1].

Schneider's conjecture. The support of the mixed area measure satisfies

suppSC1,,Cn1=cl{uSn1:u is (C1,,Cn1)-extreme}.\mathop{\mathrm{supp}} \mathrm{S}_{C_1,\ldots,C_{n-1}}=\mathop{\mathrm{cl}}\big\{u\in S^{n-1}:u\text{ is }(C_1,\ldots,C_{n-1})\text{-extreme}\big\}.

For polytopes, this follows from the characterization of positivity of mixed volumes, while the assertion for general convex bodies gives the conjectural extension of the polytope description and remains unresolved in general.

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Ramon van Handel and Shouda Wang, “On Minkowski's monotonicity problem”, arXiv:2507.20082 (2025).

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