A note on the $L_p$-Brunn-Minkowski inequality for intrinsic volumes and the $L_p$-Christoffel-Minkowski problem

TL;DR

This paper advances the understanding of the $L_p$-Brunn-Minkowski inequality for intrinsic volumes near the sphere and establishes uniqueness results for the $L_p$-Christoffel-Minkowski problem under certain conditions.

Contribution

It proves the inequality for convex bodies close to the sphere for certain $p<1$ and shows it does not hold generally; also, it establishes uniqueness for the $L_p$-Christoffel-Minkowski problem when data is near constant.

Findings

Inequality holds for bodies close to the sphere for certain $p<1$.

Inequality does not hold for all convex bodies for any $p<1$.

Uniqueness is proven for the $L_p$-Christoffel-Minkowski problem when data is near constant.

Abstract

The first goal of this paper is to improve some of the results in \cite{BCPR}. Namely, we establish the $L_p$-Brunn-Minkwoski inequality for intrinsic volumes for origin-symmetric convex bodies that are close to the ball in the $C^2$ sense for a certain range of $p<1$ (including negative values) and we prove that this inequality does not hold true in the entire class of origin-symmetric convex bodies for any $p<1$. The second goal is to establish a uniqueness result for the (closely related) $L_p$-Christoffel-Minkowski problem. More specifically, we show uniqueness in the symmetric case when $p\in[0,1)$ and the data function $g$ in the right hand side is sufficiently close to the constant 1. One of the main ingredients of the proof is the existence of upper and lower bounds for the (convex) solution, that depend only $\|\log g\|_{L^\infty}$, a fact that might be of independent interest.