Plane sections of the unit ball of \(L^ p\) (Q1824864)

A norm N on \({\mathbb{R}}^ n\) is called p-cozonoidal (for some p, \(1\leq p<\infty)\) in this paper if it can be represented in the form \[ N(u)=[\int_{S^{n-1}}| <u,x>|^ pd\mu (x)]^{1/p},\quad u\in {\mathbb{R}}^ n \] with a suitable measure \(\mu\) on the unit sphere \(S^{n- 1}\). A p-cozonoid is, by definition, a convex body in \({\mathbb{R}}^ n\) which is the unit ball of some p-cozonoidal norm. (In particular, the 1- cozonoidal bodies are precisely the polar bodies of centred zonoids). It is proved that the set of all n-dimensional central plane sections of the unit ball of \(L^ p[0,1]\) coincides with the set of p-cozonoidal bodies in \({\mathbb{R}}^ n\) [for \(p=1\), see \textit{E. D. Bolker}, Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 145, 323-345 (1969; Zbl 0194.231)]. Similar results are obtained for \(\ell^ p\) and \(\ell^ p_ m\).