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The author describes a method, originally due to \textit{M. Gromov} [Adv. Differential Geom. Topology, 1-38 (1990; Zbl 0770.53042)], which leads to integral representations of mixed volumes and more general mixed moment tensors. The method is based on the notion of a linear section over the space \({\mathcal K}^n\) of convex bodies in \(\mathbb{R}^n\). This is a family \((f_K)_{K\in{\mathcal K}_n}\) of convex and Lipschitz continuous functions \(f_K\) which depend linearly on \(K\) and represent the convex bodies in the sense that \(K= \text{cl dom }f^*\) (\(f^*\) is the conjugate and dom the effective domain). For each \(k\in\mathbb{N}_0\), a linear section implies a multilinear mapping on \(({\mathcal K}^n)^{n+ k}\) into the symmetric tensor product \(\odot_k\mathbb{R}^n\), a mixed moment tensor. As a consequence, integral representations for mixed moment tensors can be obtained. For the case \(k= 0\), the mixed volume, two such formulae are given, they generalize an approximation result by the reviewer [Manuscr. Math. 36, 1-18 (1981; Zbl 0492.52003)]. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0878.00066].