The Brunn-Minkowski Inequalities for Centroid Body

Jun Yuan, Lingzhi Zhao

School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Nanjing Xiaozhuang University, Nanjing, China.

DOI: 10.4236/apm.2013.31013                

Abstract

In [1], the authors established the Brunn-Minkowski inequality for centroid body. In this paper, we give an isolate form and volume difference of it, respectively. Both of these results are strength versions of the original.

Keywords

Centroid Body; The Brunn-Minkowski Inequality

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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