On the volume of convex hulls of sets on spheres (Q1815259)

Let \(S^{d-1}\) be the unit sphere of \(\mathbb{R}^d\). The authors show that, of all sets on \(S^{d-1}\) with a given Haar measure, the spherical cap has the minimal-volume convex hull in \(\mathbb{R}^d\). It is also shown, for \(d=2,3\), that for centrally-symmetric sets of a given Haar measure the volume of the convex hull is minimized by the equatorial strip \(\{(x_1,\dots,x_d):|x_1|<a\}\). The proof uses the fact that the cylindrical projection from a sphere to a smaller concentric, sphere is measure-preserving (in \(\mathbb{R}^3)\) and measure-increasing (in \(\mathbb{R}^2\)); this is not true in higher dimensions, so the authors' method of proof does not generalize (although the result itself may.) This result is used to simplify the proof of an existing result of Kwapien and Sawa about Gaussian measures of dilations of convex, symmetric sets, and to generalize it to other rotation invariant logarithmically decreasing measures.