On characterizations of sausages via inequalities and roots of Steiner polynomials
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Jesús Yepes Nicolás
Abstract
We prove that sausages are the family of ‘extremal sets’ in relation to certain linear improvements of Minkowski’s first inequality when working with projection/sections assumptions. In particular they characterize the equality cases of the corresponding linear refinements of both the isoperimetric inequality and Urysohn’s inequality. We also characterize sausages by algebraic properties of the roots of Steiner polynomials, in which other functionals of convex bodies such as the inradius, the mean width or the diameter are involved.
Acknowledgements
The author would like to thank Prof. M. A. Hernández Cifre for her very valuable advice and helpful suggestions during the preparation of this paper.
Funding
Partially supported by MINECO-FEDER project MTM2012-34037 and MINECO Severo Ochoa project SEV-2011-0087
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