On the roots of generalized Wills \(\mu\)-polynomials (Q748332)

Summary: We investigate the roots of a family of geometric polynomials of convex bodies associated to a given measure \(\mu\) on the non-negative real line \(\mathbb R_{\geq 0}\), which arise from the so called Wills functional. We study its structure, showing that the set of roots in the upper half-plane is a closed convex cone, containing the non-positive real axis \(\mathbb R_{\leq0}\), and strictly increasing in the dimension, for any measure \(\mu\). Moreover, it is proved that the `smallest' cone of roots of these \(\mu\)-polynomials is the one given by the Steiner polynomial, which provides, for example, additional information about the roots of \(\mu\)-polynomials when the dimension is large enough. It will also give necessary geometric conditions for a sequence \(\{m_i\colon i=0,1,\dots\}\) to be the moments of a certain measure on \(\mathbb R_{\geq0}\), a question regarding the so called (Stieltjes) moment problem.