Minimal surface area position of a convex body is not always an \(M\)-position (Q375683)

Answering a question posed by A. Giannopoulos and V. Milman, the author shows that minimal surface area positions of convex bodies do not necessarily lead to \(M\)-positions. More precisely, it is proved that there exists an absolute constant \(c_0>0\) with the following property. For every \(n\in{\mathbb N}\), there exists a 1-unconditional convex body \(K\) of volume \(|K|=1\) in \({\mathbb R}^n\) which is in minimal surface area position (that is, has minimal surface area among its affine images of the same volume), but satisfies \[ |K+D_n|^{1/n}\geq c_0n^{1/8}, \] where \(D_n\) denotes the Euclidean unit ball. The proof uses various interesting devices, among them the curvature image of a star body and the inverse Blaschke-Santaló inequality.