Iterations of the projection body operator and a remark on Petty's conjectured projection inequality (Q340979)

It is shown that if a~convex body has absolutely continuous surface area measure, whose density is sufficiently close to the constant, then the sequence \(\{\prod ^m_K\}\) of convex bodies converges to the ball with respect to the Banach-Mazur distance, as \(m \to \infty\). Here, \(\Pi\) denotes the projection body operator. Using this result, the authors show that the ellipsoid is a~local solution to the conjectured inequality of Petty and to improve a related inequality of Lutwak.