Mahler's conjecture and curvature

Shlomo Reisner; Carsten Schütt; Elisabeth M. Werner

doi:10.1093/imrn/rnr003

Mahler's conjecture and curvature

Shlomo Reisner, Carsten Schütt, Elisabeth M. Werner

Department of Mathematics

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Let K be a convex body in ℝⁿ with Santaló point at 0. We show that if K has a point on the boundary with positive generalized Gauß curvature, then the volume product |K||K°|is not minimal. This means that a body with minimal volume product has a Gauß curvature equal to 0 almost everywhere and thus suggests strongly that a minimal body is a polytope.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-16
Number of pages	16
Journal	International Mathematics Research Notices
Volume	2012
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/imrn/rnr003
State	Published - 1 Jan 2012

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This work was partially supported by an NSF grant, a FRG-NSF grant and a BSF grant (to E.W.).

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