## The Brunn-Minkowski-Firey theory. II: Affine and geominimal surface areas.(English)Zbl 0853.52005

The aim of the article is to extend the known inequalities involving (extended) affine and geominimal surface areas to the so-called $$p$$-affine and $$p$$-geominimal surface areas for $$p >1$$. All of these latter notions refer to the Firey linear combination $$\lambda \cdot K +_p \mu \cdot L$$, given by $h(\lambda \cdot K +_p \mu \cdot L,\cdot) := (\lambda h(K,\cdot)^p + \mu h(L,\cdot)^p)^{1\over p}$ $$(\lambda \geq 0$$, $$\mu \geq 0$$, not both zero), where $$h(K,u)$$ resp. $$h(L,u)$$ $$(u \in S^{n-1})$$ is the support function of a convex body $$K$$ resp. $$L$$ in euclidean $$n$$-space containing the origin $$o$$ in its interior. From this a $$p$$-mixed volume $$V_p (K,L)$$ may be derived by ${n\over p} V_p(K,L) := \lim_{\varepsilon \to 0} {V(K+_p \varepsilon \cdot L) - V(K) \over \varepsilon} = {1\over p} \int_{S^{n-1}} h(L,u)^p dS_p (K,u)$ $$(S_p(K,\cdot) =$$ suitable Borel measure on $$S^{n-1})$$ and moreover
$$V_p(K,L^*) := {1\over n} \int_{S^{n-1}} \rho_L (u)^{-p} dS_p (K,u)$$ for a star body $$L$$ about $$o$$ with the radial function $$\rho_L(u)$$.
Now in continuation of part I of the author’s paper [part I: Mixed volumes and the Minkowski problem, J. Differ. Geom. 38, No. 1, 131-150 (1993; Zbl 0788.52007)] a $$p$$-affine surface area $$\Omega_p(K)$$ is defined by $$\Omega_p(K)^{n+p \over n} = \inf_L nV_p (K,L^*) \cdot (nV(L))^{p \over n}$$, in a certain sense generalizing a $$p$$-geominimal surface area $$G_p(K)$$ with $$G_p(K) = \inf_{L'} nV_p (K,L') \cdot (\omega_n^{-1} V(L'{}^*))^{p\over n}$$ where the infimum is only taken for the convex star bodies $$L'$$ with polar bodies $$L'{}^*$$ $$(\omega_n =$$ volume of the unit $$n$$-ball). As one of the big varieties of results the following $$p$$-extension of the affine isoperimetric inequality may be stated: $$\Omega_p(K)^{n+p} \leq n^{n+p} \omega^{2p}_n V(K)^{n-p}$$ with equality if and only if $$K$$ is an ellipsoid. This extension represents an improvement of the classical affine isoperimetric inequality because the $$p$$-th root of the $$p$$-affine isoperimetric ratio is shown to be monotone nondecreasing in $$p$$. A similar result is proved for the $$p$$-geominimal surface area. As in the classical case there exists an inequality between $$p$$-affine and $$p$$-geominimal surface area.

### MSC:

 52A38 Length, area, volume and convex sets (aspects of convex geometry) 52A40 Inequalities and extremum problems involving convexity in convex geometry 52A39 Mixed volumes and related topics in convex geometry

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