On supporting hyperplanes to convex bodies (Q2637466)

A convex body \( S \subset {\mathbb R}^n \) is called \textit{well-centered} if it contains some ellipsoid \( E \) centered in the origin such that \( E \subset S \subset n \cdot E\). The main result of the paper is Theorem 1.1. Let \( S \subset {\mathbb R}^n \) be a well-centered convex body. Fix \(\, 0 \leq s \leq s_0 < 1\). For each \( {\mathbf {y}} \in (1-s) \partial S \) there exists a hyperplane \( P \) supporting \( S \) such that \[ \mathrm{dist} ({\mathbf {y}}, P) \leq c(n, s_0) s^{1/2^{n-1}}\mathrm{diam} (P^{\bot}\cap S). \] Here \( P^{\bot} \) denotes the \((\)unique\()\) line orthogonal to \( P \) passing through the origin, and \( c(n, s_0) \) is a constant depending only on \( n \) and \( s_0\), namely \[ c(n, s_0) = n^{3/2} \left(n-\frac{1}{2} \right) \left( \frac{1+(s_0)^{1/2^{n}}}{1-(s_0)^{1/2^{n}}} \right)^{n-1}. \] So, the authors prove that ``for any point \({\mathbf {y}} \in S \) near the boundary of a well-centered body, it is possible to find a line \( L \) through the origin whose intersection with \( S \) is large relative to the distance of \({\mathbf {y}} \) to a hyperplane outside \( S \) and orthogonal to \( L \)''. They also note that this result can be applied to the Monge-Ampère type equations studies.