On characterizations of sausages via inequalities and roots of Steiner polynomials (Q1707412)

The author proves a linear version of the Minkowski's first inequality under some assumption and characterizes the equality condition by using sausages (two convex bodies is a sausage if one of them is the Minkowski addition of the other body and a segment), which is, in a sense, a continuation of the author's earlier work with \textit{E. Saorín Gómez} [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 421, No. 2, 1081--1100 (2015; Zbl 1300.52008)]. An important role in the proof is played by the famous Schwarz symmetrization, along with the Brunn-Minkoswki inequality, some properties of mixed volume and a result from the above cited paper. As a consequence (assuming one of the bodies is a ball), the author also proves a linear version of the isoperimetric inequality and Uryshon's inequality along with their equality characterizations by using sausages. The paper under review also characterize sausages by algebraic properties of the roots of Steiner polynomials by using inradius, the mean width, and the diameter of convex bodies, and also a result by \textit{M. Henk} and \textit{M. A. Hernández Cifre} [Bull. Braz. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 42, No. 1, 153--170 (2011; Zbl 1230.52010)].