Comparison of volumes of convex bodies in real, complex, and quaternionic spaces |
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Authors: | Boris Rubin |
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Institution: | Department of Mathematics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA |
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Abstract: | The classical Busemann-Petty problem (1956) asks, whether origin-symmetric convex bodies in Rn with smaller hyperplane central sections necessarily have smaller volumes. It is known, that the answer is affirmative if n?4 and negative if n>4. The same question can be asked when volumes of hyperplane sections are replaced by other comparison functions having geometric meaning. We give unified analysis of this circle of problems in real, complex, and quaternionic n-dimensional spaces. All cases are treated simultaneously. In particular, we show that the Busemann-Petty problem in the quaternionic n-dimensional space has an affirmative answer if and only if n=2. The method relies on the properties of cosine transforms on the unit sphere. We discuss possible generalizations. |
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Keywords: | primary 44A12 secondary 52A38 |
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