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Inequalities between mixed volumes of convex sets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

G. C. Shephard
G. C. Shephard
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The University, Birmingham, 15.
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Let K = {K1, K2, …, Kp} be a system of p bounded closed convex sets in affine space An of n dimensions. If λ1, λ2,…, λp are any p real numbers, we use λ1K1+λ2K2+…λpKp to denote the bounded closed convex set consisting of all the points

The n-dimensional content or volume of this set is a homogeneous polynomial of degree n in the parameters λi, that is

where the summation is over all sets of suffixes 1 £ij, £p, for 1 £j £ n. Further the coefficients may be chosen to be positive and symmetric in their arguments These coefficients, which are in number, are called the mixed volumes of the convex sets.

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Mathematika , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , December 1960 , pp. 125 - 138
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Copyright © University College London 1960

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page 125 note † For a proof of this result and discussions of the properties of mixed volumes see: Bonnesen, T. and Fenchel, W., Theorie der konvexen Körper (New York, 1948)Google Scholar, §7 et seq.; Eggleston, H. G., Convexity (Cambridge 1958)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, Chapter 5; Busemann, H., Convex surfaces (New York 1958), Chapter 2.Google Scholar

page 125 note ‡ Macbeath, A. M., “A compactness theorem for affine equivalence-classes of convex regions”, Can. J. of Math., 3 (1951), 54–61.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 125 note § Heine, R., “Der Wertvorrat der gemischten Inhälte von zwei, drei und vier obenen Eibereichen”, Math. Annalen, 115 (1937), 115–129.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page126 note † Throughout this paper every convex set will be understood to be closed and bounded.

page127 note † A. M. Macbeath, loc. cit. p. 54. The metric used by Eggleston (loc. cit. pp. 59–60) is equivalent to this.

page130 note † A. M. Macbeath, loc. cit., p. 55.

page130 note ‡ H. G. Eggleston, loc. cit., Theorem 32.

page131 note † H. G. Eggleston, loc. cit., p. 87, Cor. to Theorem 42.

page132 note † H. Busemann, loc. cit., pp. 48–60.

page132 note ‡ It is clear that these cannot be deduced from 2.1 without the assumption 2.2, since, taking n = 3, p = 2, the values

satisfy 2.1, but not 2.3. In fact it is not difficult to see that when p = 2, if we interpret the mixed volumes as coordinates in projective space PN−1 as in the last section, equations 2.3 define the closure of the point set given by 2.1 and 2.2.

page132 note § Cf. R. Heine, loc. cit., p. 116.

page133 note † T. Bonnesen and W. Fenchel, loc. cit., p. 40.