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Publications and source records attributed to K. J. Böröczky.
Following the work of Semyon Alesker in the scalar valued case and of Thomas Wannerer in the vector valued case, the dimensions of the spaces of continuous translation invariant and unitary equivariant tensor valuations are computed. In addition, a basis in the vector valued case is presented.
H. Guggenheimer generalized the planar volume product problem for locally convex curves $C$ enclosing the origin $k \ge 2$ times. He conjectured that the minimal volume product $V(C)V(C^*)$ for these curves is attained if the curve consists of the longest diagonals of a regular $(2k+1)$-gon, with centre $0$, these diagonals taken always in the positive orientation. This conjectured minimum is of the form $k^2 + O(k)$. We investigate special cases of this conjecture. We prove it for locally convex $n$-gons with $2k+1 \le n \le 4k$, if the central angles at $0$ of all sides are equal to $2k π/n$. For $4k+1 \le n$ we prove that for locally convex $n$-gons enclosing the origin $k \ge 2$ times the critical (stationary) values of the volume product $V(K)V(K^*)$ are attained exactly when up to a non-singular linear map the vertices lie on the unit circle about $0$, and the central angles of all sides are equal to $2k π/n$. For locally convex $n$-gons enclosing the origin $k \ge 2$ times, and inscribed to the unit circle, with $2k+1 \le n$, we prove the conjecture up to a multiplicative factor about $0.43$.
Let $K \subset {\mathbb R}^2$ be an $o$-symmetric convex body, and $K^*$ its polar body. Then we have $|K|\cdot |K^*| \ge 8$, with equality if and only if $K$ is a parallelogram. ($| \cdot |$ denotes volume). If $K \subset {\mathbb R}^2$ is a convex body, with $o \in {\text{int}}\,K$, then $|K|\cdot |K^*| \ge 27/4$, with equality if and only if $K$ is a triangle and $o$ is its centroid. If $K \subset {\mathbb R}^2$ is a convex body, then we have $|K| \cdot |[(K-K)/2)]^* | \ge 6$, with equality if and only if $K$ is a triangle. These theorems are due to Mahler and Reisner, Mahler and Meyer, and to Eggleston, respectively. We show an analogous theorem: if $K$ has $n$-fold rotational symmetry about $o$, then $|K|\cdot |K^*| \ge n^2 \sin ^2 ( π/n)$, with equality if and only if $K$ is a regular $n$-gon of centre $o$. We will also give stability variants of these four inequalities, both for the body, and for the centre of polarity. For this we use the Banach-Mazur distance (from parallelograms, or triangles), or its analogue with similar copies rather than affine transforms (from regular $n$-gons), respectively. The stability variants are sharp, up to constant factors. We extend the inequality $|K|\cdot |K^*| \ge n^2 \sin ^2 ( π/n)$ to bodies with $o \in {\text{int}}\,K$, which contain, and are contained in, two regular $n$-gons, the vertices of the contained $n$-gon being incident to the sides of the containing $n$-gon. Our key lemma is a stability estimate for the area product of two sectors of convex bodies polar to each other. To several of our statements we give several proofs; in particular, we give a new proof for the theorem of Mahler-Reisner.
We prove the Blaschke-Santaló inequality restricted to $n$-gons: the extremal polygons are the affine regular $n$-gons. If either the John or the Löwner ellipse of a planar $o$-symmetric convex body $K$ is the unit circle about $o$, then a sharpening of the Blaschke-Santaló inequality holds: even the aritmetic mean $\left( V(K) + V( K^*) \right) /2 $ is at least $π$. We give stability variants of the Blaschke-Santaló inequality for the plane. If for some $n \ge 3$ the planar convex body $K$ is $n$-fold rotationally symmetric about $o$, then we give the exact maximum of $V(K^*)$, as a function of $V(K)$ and the area of either the John or the Löwner ellipse.