Ball's Santaló type inequality for symmetric convex bodies

Let KKsubseteqRn\mathbb R^n be a symmetric convex body, and define its polar body by

K={xRn:x,y1  yK}.K^\circ=\{x\in\mathbb R^n:\langle x,y\rangle\leq 1\;\forall y\in K\}.

Let B2n={xRn:x1}B_2^n=\{x\in\mathbb R^n:\|x\|\leq 1\} be the Euclidean unit ball. Ball's conjecture.

KKx,y2dxdyB2nB2nx,y2dxdy.\int_K\int_{K^\circ}\langle x,y\rangle^2\,dx\,dy\leq\int_{B_2^n}\int_{B_2^n}\langle x,y\rangle^2\,dx\,dy.

This is a Santaló-type inequality comparing a symmetric convex body with its polar, with the Euclidean ball as the extremal case. The conjecture is resolved by the paper's proof; the abstract also states a stronger isotropic directional inequality and characterizes equality.

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Károly J. Böröczky, Konstantinos Patsalos and Christos Saroglou, “On Ball's conjectured Santaló type inequality”, arXiv:2602.20325 (2026).

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