We show that the fifth and the eighth Busemann-Petty problems have positive solutions for bodies that are sufficiently close to the Euclidean ball in the Banach-Mazur distance.
We present a method which shows that in $\Eb$ the Busemann-Petty problem, concerning central sections of centrally symmetric convex bodies, has a positive answer. Together with other results, this settles the problem in each dimension.
We provide an affirmative answer to a variant of the Busemann-Petty problem, proposed by V.~Milman: Let $K$ be a convex body in ${\mathbb R}^n$ and let $D$ be a compact subset of ${\mathbb R}^n$ such that, for some $1\ls k\ls n-1$, $$|P_F(K)|\ls |D\cap F|$$ for all $F\in G_{n,k}$, where $P_F(K)$ is the orthogonal projection of $K$ onto $F$ and $D\cap F$ is the intersection of $D$ with $F$. Then, $$|K|\ls |D|.$$ We also provide estimates for the lower dimensional Busemann-Petty and Shephard problems, and we prove separation in the original Busemann-Petty problem.
We consider the problem of comparing the volumes of two star bodies in an even-dimensional euclidean space $\mathbb R^{2n} = \mathbb C^n$ by comparing their cross sectional areas along complex lines (special 2-dimensional real planes) through the origin. Under mild symmetry conditions on one of the bodies a Busemann-Petty type theorem holds. Quaternionic and Octonionic analogs also hold. The argument relies on integration in polar coordinates coupled with Jensen's inequality. Along the way we provide a criterion that detects which centered bodies are {\it circular}. i.e., stabilized by multipl…
H. Busemann and C. M. Petty posed the following problem in 1956: If K and L are origin-symmetric convex bodies in R^n and for each hyperplane H through the origin the volumes of their central slices satisfy vol(K cap H) < vol(L cap H), does it follow that the volumes of the bodies themselves satisfy vol(K) < vol(L)? The problem is trivially positive in R^2. However, a surprising negative answer for n <= 12 was given by Larman and Rogers in 1975. Subsequently, a series of contributions were made to reduce the dimensions to n >= 5 by a number of authors. That is, the problem has a negative answe…
A unified analytic solution to the Busemann-Petty problem was recently found by Gardner, Koldobsky and Schlumprecht. We give an elementary proof of their formulas for the inverse Radon transform.
The complex Busemann-Petty problem asks whether origin symmetric convex bodies in $\C^n$ with smaller central hyperplane sections necessarily have smaller volume. We prove that the answer is affirmative if $n\le 3$ and negative if $n\ge 4.$
We derive a formula connecting the derivatives of parallel section functions of an origin-symmetric star body in R^n with the Fourier transform of powers of the radial function of the body. A parallel section function (or (n-1)-dimensional X-ray) gives the ((n-1)-dimensional) volumes of all hyperplane sections of the body orthogonal to a given direction. This formula provides a new characterization of intersection bodies in R^n and leads to a unified analytic solution to the Busemann-Petty problem: Suppose that K and L are two origin-symmetric convex bodies in R^n such that the ((n-1)-dimensio…
The lower dimensional Busemann-Petty problem asks whether origin symmetric convex bodies in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with smaller volume of all $k$-dimensional sections necessarily have smaller volume. As proved by Bourgain and Zhang, the answer to this question is negative if $k>3$. The problem is still open for $k=2,3$. In this article we formulate and completely solve the lower dimensional Busemann-Petty problem in the hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^n$.
The generalized Busemann-Petty problem asks whether centrally-symmetric convex bodies having larger volume of all m-dimensional sections necessarily have larger volume. When m>3 this is known to be false, but the cases m=2,3 are still open. In those cases, it is shown that when the smaller body's radial function is a (n-m)-th root of the radial function of a convex body, the answer to the generalized Busemann-Petty problem is positive (for any larger star-body). Several immediate corollaries of this observation are also discussed.
The aim of this paper is to study properties of sections of convex bodies with respect to different types of measures. We present a formula connecting the Minkowski functional of a convex symmetric body K with the measure of its sections. We apply this formula to study properties of general measures most of which were known before only in the case of the standard Lebesgue measure. We solve an analog of the Busemann-Petty problem for the case of general measures. In addition, we show that there are measures, for which the answer to the generalized Busemann-Petty problem is affirmative in all di…
A comparison problem for volumes of convex bodies asks whether inequalities $f_K(ξ)\le f_L(ξ)$ for all $ξ\in S^{n-1}$ imply that $\vol_n(K)\le \vol_n(L),$ where $K,L$ are convex bodies in $\R^n,$ and $f_K$ is a certain geometric characteristic of $K.$ By linear stability in comparison problems we mean that there exists a constant $c$ such that for every $\e>0$, the inequalities $f_K(ξ)\le f_L(ξ)+\e$ for all $ξ\in S^{n-1}$ imply that $(\vol_n(K))^{\frac{n-1}n}\le (\vol_n(L))^{\frac{n-1}n}+c\e.$ We prove such results in the settings of the Busemann-Petty and Shephard problems and their generaliz…
An affirmative solution to the generalized Busemann--Petty problem with subspace dimensions $2$ and $3$
School of Mathematical Sciences, Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Applications (Ministry of Education), Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China(同济大学数学科学学院,智能计算与应用教育部重点实验室)
We prove the following theorem. Let $μ$ be a measure on $R^n$ with even continuous density, and let $K,L$ be origin-symmetric convex bodies in $R^n$ so that $μ(K\cap H)\le μ(L\cap H)$ for any central hyperplane H. Then $μ(K)\le \sqrt{n} μ(L).$ We also prove this result with better constants for some special classes of measures and bodies. Finally, we prove a version of the hyperplane inequality for convex measures.
Extensions of the Busemann-Petty Problem for Arbitrary Measures
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella(托尔夸托·迪泰拉大学);IMAS–CONICET(阿根廷国家科学研究委员会马蒂亚斯·莫林纳物理数学研究所);Universidad de Sevilla(塞维利亚大学);Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires(布宜诺斯艾利斯大学理学院)
We prove that the (n-2)-dimensional surface area (perimeter) of central hyperplane sections of the n-dimensional unit cube is maximal for the hyperplane perpendicular to the vector (1,1,0,...,0). This gives a positive answer to a question of Pelczynski who solved the three dimensional case. We study both the real and the complex versions of this problem. We also use our result to show that the answer to an analogue of the Busemann-Petty problem for the surface area is negative in dimensions 14 and higher.
We study the slicing inequality for the surface area instead of volume. This is the question whether there exists a constant $α_n$ depending (or not) on the dimension $n$ so that $$S(K)\leqα_n|K|^{\frac{1}{n}}\max_{ξ\in S^{n-1}}S(K\capξ^{\perp })$$ where $S$ denotes surface area and $|\cdot |$ denotes volume. For any fixed dimension we provide a negative answer to this question, as well as to a weaker version in which sections are replaced by projections onto hyperplanes. We also study the same problem for sections and projections of lower dimension and for all the quermassintegrals of a conve…
This article belongs to the area of geometric tomography, which is the study of geometric properties of solids based on data about their sections and projections. We describe a new direction in geometric tomography where different volumetric results are considered in a more general setting, with volume replaced by an arbitrary measure. Surprisingly, such a general approach works for a number of volumetric results. In particular, we discuss the Busemann-Petty problem on sections of convex bodies for arbitrary measures and the slicing problem for arbitrary measures. We present generalizations of…