Cone-volume measure and stability (Q728215)

Let \(V_K\) denote the cone-volume measure of a convex body \(K\subset{\mathbb R}^n\) which is centered (i.e., has its center of gravity at the origin). The authors prove a stability strengthening of the fact that \(V_K\) satisfies the subspace concentration condition. Suppose there is a linear subspace \(L\subset{\mathbb R}^n\), \(1\leq d:=\dim L\leq n-1\), such that \[ V_K(L\cap S^{n-1}) >\frac{d-\varepsilon}{n}V(K) \] for a sufficiently small \(\varepsilon>0\) (\(S^{n-1}\) denotes the unit sphere, and \(V\) is the volume). Then \(K\) is `\(\varepsilon\)-close' to a direct sum \(C+M\), where \(C\subset L^\perp\), \(\dim C=n-d\), \(\dim M=d\). Here `\(\varepsilon\)-close' is made precise in terms of two notions of distance, for which estimates involving \(\varepsilon\) are given. A second stability result concerns the inequality \[ U(K) \geq \frac{(n!)^{1/n}}{n} V(K) \] for a centered convex body \(K\). Here \(U(K)=(\int \text{d}V_K^n(u_1,\dots,u_n))^{1/n}\), where the integration is over linearly independent tuples \((u_1,\dots,u_n)\). The result gives a version of the fact that equality in the above inequality, `up to \(\varepsilon\)', implies that \(K\) is close to a parallelepiped, which is made precise in dependence on \(\varepsilon\).