Shephard's inequalities, Hodge-Riemann relations, and a conjecture of Fedotov (Q6608554)

Shephard's inequalities are a generalization of the Alexandrov-Fenchel inequality for mixed volumes of convex bodies. A high-order generalization of Shephard's inequalities was conjectured by Fedotov almost 40 years ago. The author disproves Fedotov's conjecture by showing that it contradicts the Hodge-Riemann relations for simple convex polytopes.\N\NThe proof relies on the interplay between convex geometry of polytopes and algebraic geometry of projective toric varieties.\N\NFor the entire collection see [Zbl 1527.46003].