Hyperplane Sections of Convex Bodies in Isotropic Position ， Matthieu Fradelizi英文教材.pdfVIP

Beitr¨age zur Algebra und Geometrie Contributions to Algebra and Geometry Volume 40 (1999), No. 1, 163-183. Hyperplane Sections of Convex Bodies in Isotropic Position Matthieu Fradelizi Universit´e de Marne-la-Vall´ee, Equipe d’Analyse et de Math´ematiques Appliqu´ees Cit´e Descartes, 5 Bd Descartes, Champs sur Marne, 77454 Marne-la-Vall´ee Cedex 2, France e-mail: fradeliz@math.univ-mlv.fr Abstract. We prove sharp inequalities showing that the volume of the hyperplane sections of a convex body in isotropic position through its centroid, as well as those of maximal volume in a fixed direction, does not depend much of the hyperplane. This generalizes a result of K. Ball to non-symmetric convex bodies. For the sections through its centroid, the extremal bodies are the same as in the symmetric case (cylinders and double-cones). For the sections of maximal volume parallel to a fixed hyperplane, the extremal bodies are cylinders and cones. We deduce that the cross-section body and the intersection body of a convex body with respect to its centroid are close to its Binet ellipsoid; we generalize results of J. Bourgain on maximal functions to the case of non-symmetric convex bodies and we prove that some equivalences between different forms of the hyperplane conjecture still hold in the non-symmetric case. MSC 1991: 52A20, 52A40 Keywords: volume, section, centroid, isotropic, ellipsoid, inertia, hyperplane, in- tersection body, cross-section body, maximal function Introduction In [8], D. Hensley established the relation between the volume of the central hyperplane sections of a centrally symmetric convex body K and its covariance. More precis