ELLIPSOIDS ARE THE ONLY LOCAL MAXIMIZERS OF THE VOLUME PRODUCT

DOI10.1112/S0025579319000056MaRDI QIDQ5227710zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Mathieu Meyer, Shlomo Reisner

Publication date 7 August 2019

Published in Mathematika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.11607

zbMATH Keywords

convex bodiesSteiner symmetrizationellipsoidsvolume product

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convex sets in (n) dimensions (including convex hypersurfaces) (52A20) Inequalities and extremum problems involving convexity in convex geometry (52A40)

Abstract: Using previous results about shadow systems and Steiner symmetrization, we prove that the local maximizers of the volume product of convex bodies are actually the global maximizers, that is: ellipsoids.

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