Asymptotic estimates for the largest volume ratio of a convex body (Q1982553)

Summary: The \textit{largest volume ratio} of a given convex body \(K \subset \mathbb{R}^n\) is defined as \[\operatorname{lvr}(K):= \sup\limits_{L \subset \mathbb{R}^n} \operatorname{vr}(K,L),\] where the sup runs over all the convex bodies \(L\). We prove the following sharp lower bound: \[c \sqrt{n} \leq \operatorname{lvr}(K),\] for \textit{every} body \(K\) (where \(c > 0\) is an absolute constant). This result improves the former best known lower bound, of order \(\sqrt{{n}/{\log \log(n)}} \). We also study the exact asymptotic behaviour of the largest volume ratio for some natural classes. In particular, we show that \(\text{lvr}(K)\) behaves as the square root of the dimension of the ambient space in the following cases: if \(K\) is the unit ball of an unitary invariant norm in \(\mathbb{R}^{d \times d} \) (e.g., the unit ball of the \(p\)-Schatten class \(S_p^d\) for any \(1 \leq p \leq \infty\)), if \(K\) is the unit ball of the full/symmetric tensor product of \(\ell_p\)-spaces endowed with the projective or injective norm, or if \(K\) is unconditional.