Several important norms on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}Rn
or convex bodies (that is, convex compact sets) in \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}Rn
have been associated to functions \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$f:\mathbb {R}^n\rightarrow \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}f:Rn→R
. On the Sobolev space \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${W^{1,1}(\mathbb {R}^n)}$$\end{document}W1,1(Rn)
(that is, the space of functions \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$f\in L^1(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}f∈L1(Rn)
with weak gradient \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\nabla f \in L^1(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}∇f∈L1(Rn)
), Gaoyong Zhang [52] defined the projection body\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\Pi \,{\langle {f} \rangle }$$\end{document}Π⟨f⟩
. Using the support function of a convex body K (where \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$h(K,y)=\max \{ y\cdot x: x\in K\}$$\end{document}h(K,y)=max{y·x:x∈K}
with \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$y\cdot x$$\end{document}y·x
the standard inner product of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$x,y\in \mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}x,y∈Rn
) to describe K, this convex body is given by\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} h(\Pi \,{\langle {f} \rangle }, y)= \int _{\mathbb {R}^n} |y\cdot \nabla f(x)|\,\mathrm {d}x \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h(Π⟨f⟩,y)=∫Rn|y·∇f(x)|dx
for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$y\in \mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}y∈Rn
. The operator that associates to f the convex body \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\Pi \,{\langle {f} \rangle }$$\end{document}Π⟨f⟩
is easily seen to be \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant, where, in general, an operator \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
defined on some space of functions \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$f:\mathbb {R}^n\rightarrow \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}f:Rn→R
and with values in the space of convex bodies, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}Kn
, in \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}Rn
is \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant if \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,(f\circ \phi ^{-1})=\phi ^{-t}{\text {Z}}\,(f)$$\end{document}Z(f∘ϕ-1)=ϕ-tZ(f)
for every function f and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\phi \in {\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}ϕ∈SL(n)
. Here \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\phi ^{-t}$$\end{document}ϕ-t
is the inverse of the transpose of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\phi $$\end{document}ϕ
. The projection body of f turned out to be critical in Zhang’s affine Sobolev inequality [52], which is a sharp affine isoperimetric inequality essentially stronger than the \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$L^1$$\end{document}L1
Sobolev inequality. The convex body \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\Pi \,{\langle {f} \rangle }$$\end{document}Π⟨f⟩
is the classical projection body (see Sect. 1 for the definition) of another convex body \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\langle {f} \rangle }$$\end{document}⟨f⟩
, which is the unit ball of the so-called optimal Sobolev norm of f and was introduced by Lutwak et al. [38]. The operator \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$f\mapsto {\langle {f} \rangle }$$\end{document}f↦⟨f⟩
is called the LYZ operator. It is \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
covariant, where, in general, an operator \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
defined on some space of functions \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$f:\mathbb {R}^n\rightarrow \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}f:Rn→R
and with values in \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}Kn
is \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
covariant if \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,(f\circ \phi ^{-1})=\phi {\text {Z}}\,(f)$$\end{document}Z(f∘ϕ-1)=ϕZ(f)
for every function f and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\phi \in {\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}ϕ∈SL(n)
. See also [5, 11, 20, 21, 36, 37, 49].
In [33], a characterization of the operators \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$f\mapsto \Pi \,{\langle {f} \rangle }$$\end{document}f↦Π⟨f⟩
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$f \mapsto {\langle {f} \rangle }$$\end{document}f↦⟨f⟩
as \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
covariant valuations on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${W^{1,1}(\mathbb {R}^n)}$$\end{document}W1,1(Rn)
was established. Here, a function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
defined on a lattice \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$({\mathcal {L}},\mathbin {\vee }, \mathbin {\wedge })$$\end{document}(L,∨,∧)
and taking values in an abelian semigroup is called a valuation if1\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} {\text {Z}}\,(f\mathbin {\vee }g)+{\text {Z}}\,(f\mathbin {\wedge }g)={\text {Z}}\,(f) +{\text {Z}}\,(g) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}Z(f∨g)+Z(f∧g)=Z(f)+Z(g)
for all \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$f,g\in {\mathcal {L}}$$\end{document}f,g∈L
. A function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
defined on some subset \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathcal {S}}$$\end{document}S
of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathcal {L}}$$\end{document}L
is called a valuation on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathcal {S}}$$\end{document}S
if (1) holds whenever \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$f,g, f\mathbin {\vee }g, f\mathbin {\wedge }g\in {\mathcal {S}}$$\end{document}f,g,f∨g,f∧g∈S
. For \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathcal {S}}$$\end{document}S
the space of convex bodies, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}Kn
, in \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}Rn
with \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\mathbin {\vee }$$\end{document}∨
denoting union and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\mathbin {\wedge }$$\end{document}∧
intersection, the notion of valuation is classical and it was the key ingredient in Dehn’s solution of Hilbert’s Third Problem in 1901 (see [22, 24]). Interesting new valuations keep arising (see, for example, [23] and see [1–3, 8, 16, 17, 19, 27, 35] for some recent results on valuations on convex bodies). More recently, valuations started to be studied on function spaces. When \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathcal {S}}$$\end{document}S
is a space of real valued functions, then we take \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\mathbin {\vee }v$$\end{document}u∨v
to be the pointwise maximum of u and v while \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\mathbin {\wedge }v$$\end{document}u∧v
is the pointwise minimum. For Sobolev spaces [31, 33, 39] and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$L^p$$\end{document}Lp
spaces [34, 46, 47] complete classifications for valuations intertwining the \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
were established. See also [4, 7, 10, 13, 14, 25, 32, 41, 50].
The aim of this paper is to establish a classification of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
covariant and of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\,{\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant Minkowski valuations on convex functions. Let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}Conv(Rn)
denote the space of convex functions \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u: \mathbb {R}^n \rightarrow (-\infty , +\infty ]$$\end{document}u:Rn→(-∞,+∞]
which are proper, lower semicontinuous and coercive. Here a function is proper if it is not identically \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$+\infty $$\end{document}+∞
and it is coercive if2\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \lim _{|x|\rightarrow + \infty } u(x)=+\infty , \end{aligned}$$\end{document}lim|x|→+∞u(x)=+∞,
where \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$|x|$$\end{document}|x|
is the Euclidean norm of x. The space \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}Conv(Rn)
is one of the standard spaces in convex analysis and here it is equipped with the topology associated to epi-convergence (see Sect. 1). An operator \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,: {\mathcal {S}}\rightarrow {\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}Z:S→Kn
is a Minkowski valuation if (1) holds with the addition on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}Kn
being Minkowski addition (that is, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$K+L=\{x+y: x\in K, y\in L\}$$\end{document}K+L={x+y:x∈K,y∈L}
for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$K,L\in {\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}K,L∈Kn
). The projection body operator is an \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant Minkowski valuation on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${W^{1,1}(\mathbb {R}^n)}$$\end{document}W1,1(Rn)
while the LYZ operator itself is not a Minkowski valuation (for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$n\ge 3$$\end{document}n≥3
) but a Blaschke valuation (see Sect. 1 for the definition).
In our first result, we establish a classification of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant Minkowski valuations on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}Conv(Rn)
. To this end, we extend the definition of projection bodies to functions \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \circ u$$\end{document}ζ∘u
with \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u∈Conv(Rn)
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \in {D}^{n-2}(\mathbb {R})$$\end{document}ζ∈Dn-2(R)
, where, for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$k\ge 0$$\end{document}k≥0
,\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} {D}^{k}(\mathbb {R})=\big \{\zeta \in C(\mathbb {R})\,: \, \zeta \ge 0, \, \zeta \text { is decreasing and } \int _0^\infty t^{k} \zeta (t)\,\mathrm {d}t <\infty \big \}. \end{aligned}$$\end{document}Dk(R)={ζ∈C(R):ζ≥0,ζis decreasing and∫0∞tkζ(t)dt<∞}.
We call an operator \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,:{\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)\rightarrow {\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}Z:Conv(Rn)→Kn
translation invariant if \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,(u\circ \tau ^{-1})={\text {Z}}\,(u)$$\end{document}Z(u∘τ-1)=Z(u)
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u∈Conv(Rn)
and every translation \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\tau :\mathbb {R}^n\rightarrow \mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}τ:Rn→Rn
. Let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$n\ge 3$$\end{document}n≥3
.
Theorem 1
A function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\,{\text {Z}}\,:{\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)\rightarrow {\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}Z:Conv(Rn)→Kn
is a continuous, monotone, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant and translation invariant Minkowski valuation if and only if there exists \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \in {D}^{n-2}(\mathbb {R})$$\end{document}ζ∈Dn-2(R)
such that\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} {\text {Z}}\,(u) = \Pi \,{\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle } \end{aligned}$$\end{document}Z(u)=Π⟨ζ∘u⟩
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u∈Conv(Rn)
.
Here \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,:{\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)\rightarrow {\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}Z:Conv(Rn)→Kn
is decreasing if \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,(u)\subseteq {\text {Z}}\,(v)$$\end{document}Z(u)⊆Z(v)
for all \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u,v\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u,v∈Conv(Rn)
such that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\ge v$$\end{document}u≥v
. It is increasing if \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,(v)\subseteq {\text {Z}}\,(u)$$\end{document}Z(v)⊆Z(u)
for all \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u,v\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u,v∈Conv(Rn)
such that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\ge v$$\end{document}u≥v
. It is monotone if it is decreasing or increasing.
While on the Sobolev space \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${W^{1,1}(\mathbb {R}^n)}$$\end{document}W1,1(Rn)
a classification of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant Minkowski valuations was established in [33], no classification of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
covariant Minkowski valuations was obtained on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${W^{1,1}(\mathbb {R}^n)}$$\end{document}W1,1(Rn)
. On \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}Conv(Rn)
, we introduce new \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
covariant Minkowski valuations and establish a classification theorem. For \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u∈Conv(Rn)
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \in {D}^{0}(\mathbb {R})$$\end{document}ζ∈D0(R)
, define the level set body\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${[ {\zeta \circ u} ]}$$\end{document}[ζ∘u]
by\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} h({[ {\zeta \circ u} ]}, y)= \int _0^{+\infty } h(\{\zeta \circ u\ge t\},y) \,\mathrm {d}t \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h([ζ∘u],y)=∫0+∞h({ζ∘u≥t},y)dt
for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$y\in \mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}y∈Rn
. Hence the level set body is a Minkowski average of the level sets. Let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$n\ge 3$$\end{document}n≥3
.
Theorem 2
An operator \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\,{\text {Z}}\,:{\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)\rightarrow {\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}Z:Conv(Rn)→Kn
is a continuous, monotone, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
covariant and translation invariant Minkowski valuation if and only if there exists \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \in {D}^{0}(\mathbb {R})$$\end{document}ζ∈D0(R)
such that\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} {\text {Z}}\,(u) = {\text {D}}\,{[ {\zeta \circ u} ]} \end{aligned}$$\end{document}Z(u)=D[ζ∘u]
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u∈Conv(Rn)
.
Here, the difference body, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {D}}\,K$$\end{document}DK
, of a convex body K is defined as \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {D}}\,K =K + (-K)$$\end{document}DK=K+(-K)
, where \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$h(-K, y)= h(K,-y)$$\end{document}h(-K,y)=h(K,-y)
for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$y\in \mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}y∈Rn
is the support function of the central reflection of K.
While on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${W^{1,1}(\mathbb {R}^n)}$$\end{document}W1,1(Rn)
a classification of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
covariant Blaschke valuations was established in [33], on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}Conv(Rn)
we obtain a more general classification of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant measure-valued valuations. For \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$K\in {\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}K∈Kn
, let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$S(K,\cdot )$$\end{document}S(K,·)
denote its surface area measure (see Sect. 1) and let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathcal {M}}_e({\mathbb {S}}^{n-1})$$\end{document}Me(Sn-1)
denote the space of finite even Borel measures on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}$$\end{document}Sn-1
. See Sect. 3 for the definition of monotonicity and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariance of measures. Let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$n\ge 3$$\end{document}n≥3
.
Theorem 3
An operator \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\,{\text {Y}}:{\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)\rightarrow {\mathcal {M}}_e({\mathbb {S}}^{n-1})$$\end{document}Y:Conv(Rn)→Me(Sn-1)
is a weakly continuous, monotone valuation that is \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\,{\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant of degree 1 and translation invariant if and only if there exists \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \in {D}^{n-2}(\mathbb {R})$$\end{document}ζ∈Dn-2(R)
such that3\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} {\text {Y}}(u,\cdot )=S( {\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle },\cdot ) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}Y(u,·)=S(⟨ζ∘u⟩,·)
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u∈Conv(Rn)
.
Here, for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \in {D}^{n-2}(\mathbb {R})$$\end{document}ζ∈Dn-2(R)
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u∈Conv(Rn)
, the measure \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$S({\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle }, \cdot )$$\end{document}S(⟨ζ∘u⟩,·)
is the LYZ measure of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \circ u$$\end{document}ζ∘u
(see Sect. 3 for the definition). The above theorem extends results by Haberl and Parapatits [18] from convex bodies to convex functions.
Preliminaries
We collect some properties of convex bodies and convex functions. Basic references are the books by Schneider [44] and Rockafellar & Wets [42]. In addition, we recall definitions and classification results on Minkowski valuations and measure-valued valuations.
We work in \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}Rn
and denote the canonical basis vectors by \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$e_1,\dots , e_n$$\end{document}e1,⋯,en
. For a k-dimensional linear subspace \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$E\subset \mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}E⊂Rn
, we write \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {proj}}_E: \mathbb {R}^n\rightarrow E$$\end{document}projE:Rn→E
for the orthogonal projection onto E and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$V_k$$\end{document}Vk
for the k-dimensional volume (or Lebesgue measure) on E. Let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {conv}}(A)$$\end{document}conv(A)
be the convex hull of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$A\subset \mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}A⊂Rn
.
The space of convex bodies, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}Kn
, is equipped with the Hausdorff metric, which is given by\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \delta (K,L)=\sup \nolimits _{y\in {\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}} |h(K,y)-h(L,y)| \end{aligned}$$\end{document}δ(K,L)=supy∈Sn-1|h(K,y)-h(L,y)|
for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$K,L\in {\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}K,L∈Kn
, where \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$h(K,y)=\max \{y\cdot x: x\in K\}$$\end{document}h(K,y)=max{y·x:x∈K}
is the support function of K at \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$y\in \mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}y∈Rn
. The subspace of convex bodies in \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}Rn
containing the origin is denoted by \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathcal {K}}^n_{0}$$\end{document}K0n
. Let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathcal {P}}^n$$\end{document}Pn
denote the space of convex polytopes in \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}Rn
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathcal {P}}^n_{0}$$\end{document}P0n
the space of convex polytopes containing the origin. All these spaces are equipped with the topology coming from the Hausdorff metric.
For \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$p\ge 0$$\end{document}p≥0
, a function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$h:\mathbb {R}^n\rightarrow \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}h:Rn→R
is p-homogeneous if \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$h(t\,z)= t^p\, h(z)$$\end{document}h(tz)=tph(z)
for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\ge 0$$\end{document}t≥0
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$z\in \mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}z∈Rn
. It is sublinear if it is 1-homogeneous and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$h(y+z)\le h(y) +h(z)$$\end{document}h(y+z)≤h(y)+h(z)
for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$y,z\in \mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}y,z∈Rn
. Every sublinear function is the support function of a unique convex body. Note that for the Minkowski sum of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$K,L\in {\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}K,L∈Kn
, we have4\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} h(K+L,y)=h(K,y)+h(L,y) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h(K+L,y)=h(K,y)+h(L,y)
for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$y\in \mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}y∈Rn
.
A second important way to describe a convex body is through its surface area measure. For a Borel set \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\omega \subset {\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}$$\end{document}ω⊂Sn-1
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$K\in {\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}K∈Kn
, the surface area measure \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$S(K,\omega )$$\end{document}S(K,ω)
is the \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$(n-1)$$\end{document}(n-1)
-dimensional Hausdorff measure of the set of all boundary points of K at which there exists a unit outer normal vector of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\partial K$$\end{document}∂K
belonging to \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\omega $$\end{document}ω
. The solution to the Minkowski problem states that a finite Borel measure \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Y}}$$\end{document}Y
on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}$$\end{document}Sn-1
is the surface area measure of an n-dimensional convex body K if and only if \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Y}}$$\end{document}Y
is not concentrated on a great subsphere and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\int _{{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}} u\,\mathrm {d}{\text {Y}}(u)=0$$\end{document}∫Sn-1udY(u)=0
. If such a measure \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Y}}$$\end{document}Y
is given, the convex body K is unique up to translation.
For n-dimensional convex bodies K and L in \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}Rn
, the Blaschke sum is defined as the convex body with surface area measure \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$S(K,\cdot )+ S(L,\cdot )$$\end{document}S(K,·)+S(L,·)
and with centroid at the origin. We call an operator \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,: {\mathcal {S}}\rightarrow {\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}Z:S→Kn
a Blaschke valuation if (1) holds with the addition on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}Kn
being Blaschke addition.
Convex and quasi-concave functions
We collect results on convex and quasi-concave functions including some results on valuations on convex functions. To every convex function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u:\mathbb {R}^n\rightarrow (-\infty ,+\infty ]$$\end{document}u:Rn→(-∞,+∞]
, there are assigned several convex sets. The domain, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {dom}}u=\{x\in \mathbb {R}^n: u(x)<+\infty \}$$\end{document}domu={x∈Rn:u(x)<+∞}
, of u is convex and the epigraph of u,\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} {\text {epi}}u =\{(x,y)\in \mathbb {R}^n\times \mathbb {R}: u(x)\le y\}, \end{aligned}$$\end{document}epiu={(x,y)∈Rn×R:u(x)≤y},
is a convex subset of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\mathbb {R}^n\times \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}Rn×R
. For \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in (-\infty ,+\infty ]$$\end{document}t∈(-∞,+∞]
, the sublevel set,\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \{u\le t\}=\{x\in \mathbb {R}^n:u(x)\le t\}, \end{aligned}$$\end{document}{u≤t}={x∈Rn:u(x)≤t},
is convex. For \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u∈Conv(Rn)
, it is also compact. Note that for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u,v\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u,v∈Conv(Rn)
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
,5\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \{u\wedge v \le t\} = \{u\le t\} \cup \{v\le t\}\qquad \text { and }\qquad \{u\vee v\le t\}= \{u\le t\} \cap \{v\le t\}, \end{aligned}$$\end{document}{u∧v≤t}={u≤t}∪{v≤t}and{u∨v≤t}={u≤t}∩{v≤t},
where for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\wedge v\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u∧v∈Conv(Rn)
all occurring sublevel sets are either empty or in \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}Kn
.
We equip \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}Conv(Rn)
with the topology associated to epi-convergence. Here a sequence \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u_k: \mathbb {R}^n\rightarrow (-\infty , \infty ]$$\end{document}uk:Rn→(-∞,∞]
is epi-convergent to \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u:\mathbb {R}^n\rightarrow (-\infty , \infty ]$$\end{document}u:Rn→(-∞,∞]
if for all \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$x\in \mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}x∈Rn
the following conditions hold:
In this case we write \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u={\text {epi-lim}}_{k\rightarrow \infty } u_k$$\end{document}u=epi-limk→∞uk
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u_k {\mathop {\longrightarrow }\limits ^{epi}}u$$\end{document}uk⟶epiu
. We remark that epi-convergence is also called \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\Gamma $$\end{document}Γ
-convergence.We require some results connecting epi-convergence and Hausdorff convergence of sublevel sets. We say that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\{u_k \le t\} \rightarrow \emptyset $$\end{document}{uk≤t}→∅
as \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$k\rightarrow \infty $$\end{document}k→∞
if there exists \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$k_0\in \mathbb {N}$$\end{document}k0∈N
such that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\{u_k \le t\} = \emptyset $$\end{document}{uk≤t}=∅
for all \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$k\ge k_0$$\end{document}k≥k0
. Also note that if \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u∈Conv(Rn)
, then\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \inf \nolimits _{\mathbb {R}^n}u=\min \nolimits _{\mathbb {R}^n}u\in \mathbb {R}. \end{aligned}$$\end{document}infRnu=minRnu∈R.
Lemma 1.4
([15], Lemma 8) Let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u_k, u \in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}uk,u∈Conv(Rn)
. If \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u_k {\mathop {\longrightarrow }\limits ^{epi}}u$$\end{document}uk⟶epiu
, then there exist constants \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$a,b \in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}a,b∈R
with \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$a >0$$\end{document}a>0
such that\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} u_k(x)>a\,\vert x\vert +b\,\, \text { and }\,\ u(x)>a\,|x|+b \end{aligned}$$\end{document}uk(x)>a|x|+bandu(x)>a|x|+b
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$k\in \mathbb {N}$$\end{document}k∈N
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$x\in \mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}x∈Rn
.
Next, we recall some results on valuations on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}Conv(Rn)
. For \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$K\in {\mathcal {K}}^n_{0}$$\end{document}K∈K0n
, we define the convex function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\ell _K:\mathbb {R}^n\rightarrow [0,\infty ]$$\end{document}ℓK:Rn→[0,∞]
by6\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} {\text {epi}}\ell _K = {\text {pos}}(K\times \{1\}), \end{aligned}$$\end{document}epiℓK=pos(K×{1}),
where \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {pos}}$$\end{document}pos
stands for positive hull, that is, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {pos}}(L)=\{t\,z\in \mathbb {R}^{n+1}: z\in L, t\ge 0\}$$\end{document}pos(L)={tz∈Rn+1:z∈L,t≥0}
for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$L\subset \mathbb {R}^{n+1}$$\end{document}L⊂Rn+1
. This means that the epigraph of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\ell _K$$\end{document}ℓK
is a cone with apex at the origin and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\{\ell _K\le t \}=t \, K$$\end{document}{ℓK≤t}=tK
for all \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t \ge 0$$\end{document}t≥0
. It is easy to see that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\ell _K$$\end{document}ℓK
is an element of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}Conv(Rn)
for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$K\in {\mathcal {K}}^n_{0}$$\end{document}K∈K0n
. Also the (convex) indicator function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\mathrm {I}_K$$\end{document}IK
for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$K\in {\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}K∈Kn
belongs to \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}Conv(Rn)
, where \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\mathrm {I}_K(x)=0$$\end{document}IK(x)=0
for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$x\in K$$\end{document}x∈K
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\mathrm {I}_K(x)= +\infty $$\end{document}IK(x)=+∞
for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$x\not \in K$$\end{document}x∉K
.
Lemma 1.6
([15], Lemma 23) Let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \in C(\mathbb {R})$$\end{document}ζ∈C(R)
have constant sign on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$[t_0,\infty )$$\end{document}[t0,∞)
for some \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t_0\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t0∈R
. If there exist \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$k\in \mathbb {N}$$\end{document}k∈N
, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$c_k\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}ck∈R
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi \in C^k(\mathbb {R})$$\end{document}ψ∈Ck(R)
with \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\lim _{t\rightarrow +\infty } \psi (t)=0$$\end{document}limt→+∞ψ(t)=0
such that\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \zeta (t) = c_k \,\frac{\,\mathrm {d}^k}{\,\mathrm {d}t^k}\psi (t) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}ζ(t)=ckdkdtkψ(t)
for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\ge t_0$$\end{document}t≥t0
, then\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \Big | \int _{0}^{+\infty } t^{k-1} \zeta (t) \,\mathrm {d}t\Big | < +\infty . \end{aligned}$$\end{document}|∫0+∞tk-1ζ(t)dt|<+∞.
The next result, which is based on [33], shows that in order to classify valuations on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}Conv(Rn)
, it is enough to know the behavior of valuations on certain functions.
Lemma 1.7
([15], Lemma 17) Let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\langle A,+\rangle $$\end{document}⟨A,+⟩
be a topological abelian semigroup with cancellation law and let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\,{\text {Z}}\,_1, {\text {Z}}\,_2:{\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)\rightarrow \langle A,+\rangle $$\end{document}Z1,Z2:Conv(Rn)→⟨A,+⟩
be continuous, translation invariant valuations. If \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\,{\text {Z}}\,_1(\ell _P+t)={\text {Z}}\,_2(\ell _P+t)$$\end{document}Z1(ℓP+t)=Z2(ℓP+t)
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$P\in {\mathcal {P}}_0^n$$\end{document}P∈P0n
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
, then \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,_1 \equiv {\text {Z}}\,_2$$\end{document}Z1≡Z2
on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}Conv(Rn)
.
A function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$f:\mathbb {R}^n\rightarrow \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}f:Rn→R
is quasi-concave if its superlevel sets \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\{f\ge t\}$$\end{document}{f≥t}
are convex for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
. Let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {QC}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}QC(Rn)
denote the space of quasi-concave functions \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$f: \mathbb {R}^n \rightarrow [0, +\infty ]$$\end{document}f:Rn→[0,+∞]
which are not identically zero, upper semicontinuous and such that\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \lim _{|x|\rightarrow + \infty } f(x)=0. \end{aligned}$$\end{document}lim|x|→+∞f(x)=0.
Note that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \circ u\in {\text {QC}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}ζ∘u∈QC(Rn)
for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \in {D}^{k}(\mathbb {R})$$\end{document}ζ∈Dk(R)
with \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$k\ge 0$$\end{document}k≥0
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u∈Conv(Rn)
. A natural extension of the volume in \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}Rn
is the integral with respect to the Lebesgue measure, that is, for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$f\in {\text {QC}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}f∈QC(Rn)
, we set8\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} V_n(f)=\int _{\mathbb {R}^n} f(x) \,\mathrm {d}x. \end{aligned}$$\end{document}Vn(f)=∫Rnf(x)dx.
See [9] for more information.
Following [9], for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$f\in {\text {QC}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}f∈QC(Rn)
and a linear subspace \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$E\subset \mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}E⊂Rn
, we define the projection function\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$ {\text {proj}}_E f:E\rightarrow [0, +\infty ]$$\end{document}projEf:E→[0,+∞]
for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$x\in E$$\end{document}x∈E
by9\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} {\text {proj}}_E f(x) = \max _{y\in E^\bot } f(x+y), \end{aligned}$$\end{document}projEf(x)=maxy∈E⊥f(x+y),
where \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$E^\bot $$\end{document}E⊥
is the orthogonal complement of E. For \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t \ge 0$$\end{document}t≥0
, we have \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\max _{y\in E^\bot } f(x+y)\ge t$$\end{document}maxy∈E⊥f(x+y)≥t
if and only if there exists \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$y \in E^\bot $$\end{document}y∈E⊥
such that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$f(x+y)\ge t$$\end{document}f(x+y)≥t
. Hence, for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\ge 0$$\end{document}t≥0
,10\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \{{\text {proj}}_E f \ge t \} = {\text {proj}}_E \{ f\ge t\}, \end{aligned}$$\end{document}{projEf≥t}=projE{f≥t},
where \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {proj}}_E$$\end{document}projE
on the right side denotes the usual projection onto E in \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}Rn
.
Valuations on convex bodies
We collect results on valuations on convex bodies and prove two auxiliary results.
\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\mathbf{SL}(\mathbf{n})$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant Minkowski valuations on convex bodies
For \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$z\in {\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}$$\end{document}z∈Sn-1
, let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$z^\bot $$\end{document}z⊥
be the subspace orthogonal to z. The projection body, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\Pi \,K$$\end{document}ΠK
, of the convex body \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$K\in {\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}K∈Kn
is defined by11\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} h(\Pi \,K, z) = V_{n-1}({\text {proj}}_{z^{\bot }} K)= \tfrac{1}{2} \int _{{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}} \vert y\cdot z\vert \,\mathrm {d}S(K,y) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h(ΠK,z)=Vn-1(projz⊥K)=12∫Sn-1|y·z|dS(K,y)
for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$z\in {\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}$$\end{document}z∈Sn-1
.
More generally, for a finite Borel measure Y on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}$$\end{document}Sn-1
, we define its cosine transform\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathscr {C}}Y:\mathbb {R}^n\rightarrow \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}CY:Rn→R
by\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} {\mathscr {C}}Y(z)= \int _{{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}} |y\cdot z| \,\mathrm {d}Y(y) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}CY(z)=∫Sn-1|y·z|dY(y)
for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$z\in \mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}z∈Rn
. Since \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$z\mapsto {\mathscr {C}}Y(z)$$\end{document}z↦CY(z)
is easily seen to be sublinear and non-negative on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}Rn
, the cosine transform \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathscr {C}}Y$$\end{document}CY
is the support function of a convex body that contains the origin.
The projection body has useful properties concerning \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
transforms and translations. For \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\phi \in {\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}ϕ∈SL(n)
and any translation \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\tau $$\end{document}τ
on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}Rn
, we have12\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \Pi \,(\phi K) = \phi ^{-t} \,\Pi \, K \quad \text { and }\quad \Pi \,(\tau K) = \Pi \,K \end{aligned}$$\end{document}Π(ϕK)=ϕ-tΠKandΠ(τK)=ΠK
for all \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$K\in {\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}K∈Kn
. Moreover, the operator \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$K\mapsto \Pi \,K$$\end{document}K↦ΠK
is continuous and the origin is an interior point of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\Pi \,K$$\end{document}ΠK
, if K is n-dimensional. See [44, Sect. 10.9] for more information on projection bodies.
We require the following result where the support function of certain projection bodies is calculated for specific vectors. Let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$n\ge 2$$\end{document}n≥2
.
Lemma 2.1
For \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$P={\text {conv}}\{0,\tfrac{1}{2}(e_1+e_2),e_2,\ldots ,e_n\}$$\end{document}P=conv{0,12(e1+e2),e2,…,en}
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$Q={\text {conv}}\{0,e_2,\ldots ,e_n\}$$\end{document}Q=conv{0,e2,…,en}
we have\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned}&h(\Pi \,P,e_1)=\tfrac{1}{(n-1)!}&h(\Pi \,Q,e_1)=\tfrac{1}{(n-1)!}\\&h(\Pi \,P,e_2)=\tfrac{1}{2(n-1)!}&h(\Pi \,Q,e_2)=0\\&h(\Pi \,P,e_1+e_2)=\tfrac{1}{(n-1)!} \qquad&h(\Pi \,Q,e_1+e_2)=\tfrac{1}{(n-1)!}. \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h(ΠP,e1)=1(n-1)!h(ΠQ,e1)=1(n-1)!h(ΠP,e2)=12(n-1)!h(ΠQ,e2)=0h(ΠP,e1+e2)=1(n-1)!h(ΠQ,e1+e2)=1(n-1)!.
Proof
We use induction on the dimension and start with \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$n=2$$\end{document}n=2
. In this case, P is a triangle in the plane with vertices \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$0,\tfrac{1}{2}(e_1+e_2)$$\end{document}0,12(e1+e2)
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$e_2$$\end{document}e2
and Q is just the line segment connecting the origin with \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$e_2$$\end{document}e2
. It is easy to see that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$h(\Pi \, P,e_2)=V_1({\text {proj}}_{e_2^\bot } P)=\tfrac{1}{2}$$\end{document}h(ΠP,e2)=V1(proje2⊥P)=12
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$h(\Pi \,Q,e_2)=0$$\end{document}h(ΠQ,e2)=0
while \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$h(\Pi \,P,e_1)=h(\Pi \,Q,e_1)=1$$\end{document}h(ΠP,e1)=h(ΠQ,e1)=1
. It is also easy to see that\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} h(\Pi \,P,e_1+e_2)=h(\Pi \,Q,e_1+e_2) = \sqrt{2} \tfrac{\sqrt{2}}{2} = 1. \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h(ΠP,e1+e2)=h(ΠQ,e1+e2)=222=1.
Assume now that the statement holds for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$(n-1)$$\end{document}(n-1)
. All the projections to be considered are simplices that are the convex hull of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$e_n$$\end{document}en
and a base in \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$e_n^\perp $$\end{document}en⊥
which is just the projection as in the \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$(n-1)$$\end{document}(n-1)
-dimensional case. Therefore, the corresponding \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$(n-1)$$\end{document}(n-1)
-dimensional volumes are just \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\tfrac{1}{n-1}$$\end{document}1n-1
multiplied with the \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$(n-2)$$\end{document}(n-2)
-dimensional volumes from the previous case. To illustrate this, we will calculate \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$h(\Pi \,P,e_1+e_2)$$\end{document}h(ΠP,e1+e2)
and remark that the other cases are similar. Note that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {proj}}_{(e_1+e_2)^\bot } P={\text {conv}}\{e_n,{\text {proj}}_{(e_1+e_2)^\bot } P^{(n-1)}\}$$\end{document}proj(e1+e2)⊥P=conv{en,proj(e1+e2)⊥P(n-1)}
, where \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$P^{(n-1)}$$\end{document}P(n-1)
is the set in \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\mathbb {R}^{n-1}$$\end{document}Rn-1
from the \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$(n-1)$$\end{document}(n-1)
-dimensional case embedded via the identification of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\mathbb {R}^{n-1}$$\end{document}Rn-1
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$e_n^\perp \subset \mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}en⊥⊂Rn
. Using the induction hypothesis and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$|e_1+e_2|=\sqrt{2}$$\end{document}|e1+e2|=2
, we obtain\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} V_{n-1}({\text {proj}}_{(e_1+e_2)^\bot } P) = \tfrac{1}{n-1}\, V_{n-2}({\text {proj}}_{(e_1+e_2)^\bot } P^{(n-1)}) = \tfrac{1}{\sqrt{2}(n-1)!}, \end{aligned}$$\end{document}Vn-1(proj(e1+e2)⊥P)=1n-1Vn-2(proj(e1+e2)⊥P(n-1))=12(n-1)!,
and therefore \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$h(\Pi \,P,e_1+e_2)=\tfrac{1}{(n-1)!}$$\end{document}h(ΠP,e1+e2)=1(n-1)!
. \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\square $$\end{document}□
The first classification of Minkowski valuations was established in [28], where the projection body operator was characterized as an \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant and translation invariant valuation. The following strengthened version of results from [29] is due to Haberl. Let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$n\ge 3$$\end{document}n≥3
.
\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\mathbf{SL}(\mathbf{n})$$\end{document}SL(n)
covariant Minkowski valuations on convex bodies
The difference body \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {D}}\,K$$\end{document}DK
of a convex body \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$K\in {\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}K∈Kn
is defined by \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {D}}\,K = K+(-K)$$\end{document}DK=K+(-K)
, that is,\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} h({\text {D}}\,K,z)= h(K,z)+h(-K,z)=V_{1}({\text {proj}}_{E(z)} K) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h(DK,z)=h(K,z)+h(-K,z)=V1(projE(z)K)
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$z\in {\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}$$\end{document}z∈Sn-1
, where E(z) is the span of z. The moment body \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathrm{M}\,}K$$\end{document}MK
of K is defined by\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} h({\mathrm{M}\,}K,z) = \int _{K} |x\cdot z| \,\mathrm {d}x \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h(MK,z)=∫K|x·z|dx
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$z\in {\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}$$\end{document}z∈Sn-1
. The moment vector \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {m}}(K)$$\end{document}m(K)
of K is defined by\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} {\text {m}}(K) = \int _{K} x \,\mathrm {d}x \end{aligned}$$\end{document}m(K)=∫Kxdx
and is an element of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\,\mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}Rn
.
We require the following result where the support function of certain moment bodies and moment vectors is calculated for specific vectors. Let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$n\ge 2$$\end{document}n≥2
.
Lemma 2.3
For \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$s>0$$\end{document}s>0
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$T_s={\text {conv}}\{0,s\,e_1,e_2, \ldots , e_n\}$$\end{document}Ts=conv{0,se1,e2,…,en}
,\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned}&h(T_s,e_1)= s&h(-T_s,e_1)=0\\&h({\text {m}}(T_s),e_1)=\tfrac{s^2}{(n+1)!} \qquad&h({\mathrm{M}\,}T_s,e_1)=\tfrac{s^2}{(n+1)!}. \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h(Ts,e1)=sh(-Ts,e1)=0h(m(Ts),e1)=s2(n+1)!h(MTs,e1)=s2(n+1)!.
Proof
It is easy to see that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$h(T_s,e_1)= s$$\end{document}h(Ts,e1)=s
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$h(-T_s,e_1)=0$$\end{document}h(-Ts,e1)=0
. Let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\phi _s\in {\text {GL}}(n)$$\end{document}ϕs∈GL(n)
be such that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$e_1\mapsto s\,e_1$$\end{document}e1↦se1
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$e_i\mapsto e_i$$\end{document}ei↦ei
for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$i=2, \dots , n$$\end{document}i=2,⋯,n
. Then \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$T_s = \phi _s T^n$$\end{document}Ts=ϕsTn
, where \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$T^n={\text {conv}}\{0,e_1,\ldots ,e_n\}$$\end{document}Tn=conv{0,e1,…,en}
is the standard simplex. Hence,\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} h({\text {m}}(T_s),e_1)= & {} h({\text {m}}(\phi _s T^n), e_1) = |\det \phi _s|\, h({\text {m}}(T^n),(\phi _s)^t e_1)\\= & {} s^2\, h({\text {m}}(T^n),e_1) = \tfrac{s^2}{(n+1)!}, \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h(m(Ts),e1)=h(m(ϕsTn),e1)=|detϕs|h(m(Tn),(ϕs)te1)=s2h(m(Tn),e1)=s2(n+1)!,
where \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\det $$\end{document}det
stands for determinant. Finally, since \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$e_1\cdot x\ge 0$$\end{document}e1·x≥0
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$x\in T_s$$\end{document}x∈Ts
, we have \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$h({\mathrm{M}\,}T_s,e_1)=h({\text {m}}(T_s),e_1)$$\end{document}h(MTs,e1)=h(m(Ts),e1)
. \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\square $$\end{document}□
A first classification of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
covariant Minkowski valuations was established in [29], where also the difference body operator was characterized. The following result is due to Haberl. Let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$n\ge 3$$\end{document}n≥3
.
Theorem 2.4
([16], Theorem 6) An operator \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,:{\mathcal {K}}^n_{0}\rightarrow {\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}Z:K0n→Kn
is a continuous, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
covariant Minkowski valuation if and only if there exist \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$c_1,c_2,c_3\ge 0$$\end{document}c1,c2,c3≥0
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$c_4\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}c4∈R
such that\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} {\text {Z}}\,K = c_1\, K + c_2 (-K) + c_3 {\mathrm{M}\,}K + c_4{\text {m}}(K) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}ZK=c1K+c2(-K)+c3MK+c4m(K)
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$K\in {\mathcal {K}}^n_{0}$$\end{document}K∈K0n
.
We also require the following result which holds for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$n\ge 2$$\end{document}n≥2
.
Measure-valued valuations on convex bodies
Denote by \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathcal {M}}({\mathbb {S}}^{n-1})$$\end{document}M(Sn-1)
the space of finite Borel measures on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}$$\end{document}Sn-1
. Following [18], for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$p\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}p∈R
, we say that a valuation \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Y}}:{\mathcal {P}}^n_{0}\rightarrow {\mathcal {M}}({\mathbb {S}}^{n-1})$$\end{document}Y:P0n→M(Sn-1)
is \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant of degreep if13\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \int _{{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}}b(z) \,\mathrm {d}{\text {Y}}(\phi P,z)= \int _{{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}} b( \phi ^{-t} z) \,\mathrm {d}{\text {Y}}(P,z) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}∫Sn-1b(z)dY(ϕP,z)=∫Sn-1b(ϕ-tz)dY(P,z)
for every map \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\phi \in {\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}ϕ∈SL(n)
, every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$P\in {\mathcal {P}}^n_{0}$$\end{document}P∈P0n
and every continuous p-homogeneous function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$b:\mathbb {R}^n\backslash \{0\}\rightarrow \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}b:Rn\{0}→R
.
The following result is due to Haberl and Parapatits. Let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$n\ge 3$$\end{document}n≥3
.
Theorem 2.6
([18], Theorem 1) A map \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\,{\text {Y}}:{\mathcal {P}}^n_{0}\rightarrow {\mathcal {M}}({\mathbb {S}}^{n-1})$$\end{document}Y:P0n→M(Sn-1)
is a weakly continuous valuation that is \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant of degree 1 if and only if there exist \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$c_1, c_2\ge 0$$\end{document}c1,c2≥0
such that\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} {\text {Y}}(P,\cdot )=c_1 S(P,\cdot )+c_2 S(-P,\cdot ) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}Y(P,·)=c1S(P,·)+c2S(-P,·)
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$P\in {\mathcal {P}}^n_{0}$$\end{document}P∈P0n
.
We denote by \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathcal {M}}_e({\mathbb {S}}^{n-1})$$\end{document}Me(Sn-1)
the set of finite even Borel measures on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}$$\end{document}Sn-1
, that is, measures \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$Y\in {\mathcal {M}}({\mathbb {S}}^{n-1})$$\end{document}Y∈M(Sn-1)
with \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$Y(\omega )=Y(-\omega )$$\end{document}Y(ω)=Y(-ω)
for every Borel set \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\omega \subset {\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}$$\end{document}ω⊂Sn-1
. We remark that if in the above theorem we also require the measure \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Y}}(P,\cdot )$$\end{document}Y(P,·)
to be even and hence \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Y}}: {\mathcal {P}}^n_{0}\rightarrow {\mathcal {M}}_e({\mathbb {S}}^{n-1})$$\end{document}Y:P0n→Me(Sn-1)
, then there is a constant \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$c\ge 0$$\end{document}c≥0
such14\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} {\text {Y}}(P,\cdot )=c\big ( S(P,\cdot )+ S(-P,\cdot )\big ) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}Y(P,·)=c(S(P,·)+S(-P,·))
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$P\in {\mathcal {P}}^n_{0}$$\end{document}P∈P0n
.
Measure-valued valuations on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathbf{Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}Conv(Rn)
In this section, we extend the LYZ measure, that is, the surface area measure of the image of the LYZ operator, to functions \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \circ u$$\end{document}ζ∘u
, where \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \in {D}^{n-2}(\mathbb {R})$$\end{document}ζ∈Dn-2(R)
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u∈Conv(Rn)
. First, we recall the definition of the LYZ operator on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${W^{1,1}(\mathbb {R}^n)}$$\end{document}W1,1(Rn)
by Lutwak et al. [38].
Following [38], for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$f\in {W^{1,1}(\mathbb {R}^n)}$$\end{document}f∈W1,1(Rn)
not vanishing a.e., we define the even Borel measure \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$S({\langle {f} \rangle }, \cdot )$$\end{document}S(⟨f⟩,·)
on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}$$\end{document}Sn-1
(using the Riesz-Markov-Kakutani representation theorem) by the condition that15\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \int _{{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}} b(z) \,\mathrm {d}S({\langle {f} \rangle },z)=\int _{\mathbb {R}^n} b( \nabla f(x)) \,\mathrm {d}x \end{aligned}$$\end{document}∫Sn-1b(z)dS(⟨f⟩,z)=∫Rnb(∇f(x))dx
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$b:\mathbb {R}^n\rightarrow \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}b:Rn→R
that is even, continuous and 1-homogeneous. Since the LYZ measure \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$S({\langle {f} \rangle }, \cdot )$$\end{document}S(⟨f⟩,·)
is even and not concentrated on a great subsphere of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}$$\end{document}Sn-1
(see [38]), the solution to the Minkowski problem implies that there is a unique origin-symmetric convex body \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\langle {f} \rangle }$$\end{document}⟨f⟩
whose surface area measure is \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$S({\langle {f} \rangle }, \cdot )$$\end{document}S(⟨f⟩,·)
.
If, in addition, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$f=\zeta \circ u\in C^{\infty }(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}f=ζ∘u∈C∞(Rn)
with \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \in {D}^{n-2}(\mathbb {R})$$\end{document}ζ∈Dn-2(R)
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u∈Conv(Rn)
, the set \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\{f\ge t\}$$\end{document}{f≥t}
is a convex body for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$0<t\le \max _{x\in \mathbb {R}^n} f(x)$$\end{document}0<t≤maxx∈Rnf(x)
, since the level sets of u are convex bodies and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta $$\end{document}ζ
is non-increasing with \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\lim _{s\rightarrow +\infty } \zeta (s)=0$$\end{document}lims→+∞ζ(s)=0
. Hence we may rewrite (15) as16\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \int _{{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}} b(z) \,\mathrm {d}S({\langle {f} \rangle },z)=\int _0^{+\infty } \int _{{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}} b( z) \,\mathrm {d}S(\{f\ge t\}, z) \,\mathrm {d}t. \end{aligned}$$\end{document}∫Sn-1b(z)dS(⟨f⟩,z)=∫0+∞∫Sn-1b(z)dS({f≥t},z)dt.
Indeed, using that b is 1-homogeneous, the co-area formula (see, for example, [6, Sect. 2.12]), Sard’s theorem, and the definition of surface area measure, we obtain\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \int _{\mathbb {R}^n} b( \nabla f(x)) \,\mathrm {d}x= & {} \int _{\mathbb {R}^n\cap \{\nabla f \ne 0\}} b\big (\tfrac{\nabla f(x)}{\vert \nabla f(x)\vert }\big ) \,\vert \nabla f(x)\vert \,\mathrm {d}x\\= & {} \int _0^{+\infty } \int _{\partial \{f\ge t\}} b\big (\tfrac{\nabla f(y)}{\vert \nabla f(y)\vert }\big )\,\mathrm {d}{\mathcal H}^{n-1}(y) \,\mathrm {d}t\\= & {} \int _0^{+\infty } \int _{{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}} b(z) \,\mathrm {d}S(\{f\ge t\},z) \,\mathrm {d}t, \\ \end{aligned}$$\end{document}∫Rnb(∇f(x))dx=∫Rn∩{∇f≠0}b(∇f(x)|∇f(x)|)|∇f(x)|dx=∫0+∞∫∂{f≥t}b(∇f(y)|∇f(y)|)dHn-1(y)dt=∫0+∞∫Sn-1b(z)dS({f≥t},z)dt,
where \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\mathcal {H}^{n-1}$$\end{document}Hn-1
denotes the \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$(n-1)$$\end{document}(n-1)
-dimensional Hausdorff measure.
Formula (16) provides the motivation of our extension of the LYZ operator, for which we require the following result.
Proof
Fix \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\varepsilon >0$$\end{document}ε>0
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u∈Conv(Rn)
. Let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\rho _{\varepsilon }\in C^{\infty }(\mathbb {R})$$\end{document}ρε∈C∞(R)
denote a standard mollifying kernel such that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\int _{\mathbb {R}^n} \rho _{\varepsilon } \,\mathrm {d}x=1$$\end{document}∫Rnρεdx=1
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\rho _{\varepsilon }(x)\ge 0$$\end{document}ρε(x)≥0
for all \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$x\in \mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}x∈Rn
while the support of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\rho _{\varepsilon }$$\end{document}ρε
is contained in a centered ball of radius \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\varepsilon $$\end{document}ε
. Write \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\tau _{\varepsilon }$$\end{document}τε
for the translation \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\mapsto t+\varepsilon $$\end{document}t↦t+ε
on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\mathbb {R}$$\end{document}R
and define \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta _\varepsilon (t)$$\end{document}ζε(t)
for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
by\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \zeta _\varepsilon (t) = (\rho _{\varepsilon } \star (\zeta \circ \tau _{\varepsilon }^{-1}))(t) +e^{-t} = \int _{-\varepsilon }^{+\varepsilon } \zeta (t-\varepsilon -s)\rho _{\varepsilon }(s) \,\mathrm {d}s +e^{-t}. \end{aligned}$$\end{document}ζε(t)=(ρε⋆(ζ∘τε-1))(t)+e-t=∫-ε+εζ(t-ε-s)ρε(s)ds+e-t.
It is easy to see, that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta _\varepsilon $$\end{document}ζε
is non-negative and smooth. Since \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\mapsto \int _{-\varepsilon }^{+\varepsilon } \zeta (t-\varepsilon -s)\rho _{\varepsilon }(s) \,\mathrm {d}s$$\end{document}t↦∫-ε+εζ(t-ε-s)ρε(s)ds
is decreasing, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta _\varepsilon $$\end{document}ζε
is strictly decreasing. Since\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \int _{-\varepsilon }^{+\varepsilon } \zeta (t-\varepsilon -s)\rho _{\varepsilon }(s) \,\mathrm {d}s \ge \int _{-\varepsilon }^{+\varepsilon } \zeta (t)\rho _{\varepsilon }(s) \,\mathrm {d}s = \zeta (t), \end{aligned}$$\end{document}∫-ε+εζ(t-ε-s)ρε(s)ds≥∫-ε+εζ(t)ρε(s)ds=ζ(t),
we get \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta _\varepsilon (t)\ge \zeta (t)$$\end{document}ζε(t)≥ζ(t)
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
. Finally, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta _\varepsilon $$\end{document}ζε
has finite \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$(n-2)$$\end{document}(n-2)
-nd moment, since \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\mapsto e^{-t}$$\end{document}t↦e-t
has finite \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$(n-2)$$\end{document}(n-2)
-nd moment and\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \int _{0}^{+\infty } t^{n-2} \int _{-\varepsilon }^{+\varepsilon } \zeta (t-\varepsilon -s)\rho _{\varepsilon }(s) \,\mathrm {d}s \,\mathrm {d}t= & {} \int _{-\varepsilon }^{+\varepsilon } \rho _{\varepsilon }(s) \int _{0}^{+\infty } t^{n-2} \zeta (t-\varepsilon -s) \,\mathrm {d}t \,\mathrm {d}s\\\le & {} \int _{-\varepsilon }^{+\varepsilon } \rho _{\varepsilon }(s) \,\mathrm {d}s \int _{0}^{+\infty } t^{n-2} \zeta (t-2\varepsilon ) \,\mathrm {d}t < +\infty . \end{aligned}$$\end{document}∫0+∞tn-2∫-ε+εζ(t-ε-s)ρε(s)dsdt=∫-ε+ερε(s)∫0+∞tn-2ζ(t-ε-s)dtds≤∫-ε+ερε(s)ds∫0+∞tn-2ζ(t-2ε)dt<+∞.
Since \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta _\varepsilon \ge \zeta $$\end{document}ζε≥ζ
, we have \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\{\zeta \circ u \ge t\} \subseteq \{\zeta _\varepsilon \circ u \ge t\}$$\end{document}{ζ∘u≥t}⊆{ζε∘u≥t}
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
. Since those are compact convex sets for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t> 0$$\end{document}t>0
, we obtain \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\mathcal {H}^{n-1}(\partial \{\zeta \circ u\ge t\}) \le \mathcal {H}^{n-1}(\partial \{\zeta _\varepsilon \circ u \ge t\})$$\end{document}Hn-1(∂{ζ∘u≥t})≤Hn-1(∂{ζε∘u≥t})
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t>0$$\end{document}t>0
. Hence, it is enough to show that\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \int _{0}^{+\infty } \mathcal {H}^{n-1}(\partial \{\zeta _\varepsilon \circ u\ge t\}) \,\mathrm {d}t < +\infty . \end{aligned}$$\end{document}∫0+∞Hn-1(∂{ζε∘u≥t})dt<+∞.
By Lemma 1.3, there exist constants \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$a,b\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}a,b∈R
with \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$a>0$$\end{document}a>0
such that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u(x)>v(x)=a|x|+b$$\end{document}u(x)>v(x)=a|x|+b
for all \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$x\in \mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}x∈Rn
. Therefore \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta _\varepsilon \circ u < \zeta _\varepsilon \circ v $$\end{document}ζε∘u<ζε∘v
, which implies that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\{\zeta _\varepsilon \circ u \ge t\} \subset \{\zeta _\varepsilon \circ v \ge t\}$$\end{document}{ζε∘u≥t}⊂{ζε∘v≥t}
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t> 0$$\end{document}t>0
. Hence, by convexity, the substitution \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t = \zeta _\varepsilon (s)$$\end{document}t=ζε(s)
and integration by parts, we obtain\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \int _{0}^{+\infty } \mathcal {H}^{n-1} (\partial \{\zeta _\varepsilon \circ u \ge t\}) \,\mathrm {d}t< & {} \int _{0}^{+\infty } \mathcal {H}^{n-1} (\partial \{\zeta _\varepsilon \circ v \ge t\}) \,\mathrm {d}t\\= & {} \tfrac{n\,v_n}{a^{n-1}} \int _{0}^{\zeta _\varepsilon (b)} ({\zeta _\varepsilon ^{-1}(t)-b})^{n-1} \,\mathrm {d}t\\= & {} -\tfrac{n\,v_n}{a^{n-1}} \int _{b}^{+\infty } \underbrace{({s-b})^{n-1} \zeta _\varepsilon '(s)}_{<0} \,\mathrm {d}s \\\le & {} -\tfrac{n\,v_n}{a^{n-1}} \underbrace{\liminf _{s\rightarrow +\infty } ({s-b})^{n-1}\zeta _\varepsilon (s)}_{\in [0,+\infty ]} \\&+ \tfrac{n(n-1)\,v_n}{a^{n-1}} \underbrace{\int _{b}^{+\infty } ({s-b})^{n-2} \zeta _\varepsilon (s) \,\mathrm {d}s}_{<+\infty }\\< & {} +\infty , \end{aligned}$$\end{document}∫0+∞Hn-1(∂{ζε∘u≥t})dt<∫0+∞Hn-1(∂{ζε∘v≥t})dt=nvnan-1∫0ζε(b)(ζε-1(t)-b)n-1dt=-nvnan-1∫b+∞(s-b)n-1ζε′(s)⏟<0ds≤-nvnan-1lim infs→+∞(s-b)n-1ζε(s)⏟∈[0,+∞]+n(n-1)vnan-1∫b+∞(s-b)n-2ζε(s)ds⏟<+∞<+∞,
where \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$v_n$$\end{document}vn
is the volume of the n-dimensional unit ball. \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\square $$\end{document}□
The previous lemma admits a reverse statement. Let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \in C(\mathbb {R})$$\end{document}ζ∈C(R)
be non-negative and decreasing, and assume that17\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \int _{0}^{+\infty } \mathcal {H}^{n-1} (\partial \{\zeta \circ u \ge t\}) \,\mathrm {d}t < +\infty \end{aligned}$$\end{document}∫0+∞Hn-1(∂{ζ∘u≥t})dt<+∞
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u∈Conv(Rn)
. Then necessarily18\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \int _0^{+\infty } t^{n-2}\zeta (t) \,\mathrm {d}t<+\infty , \end{aligned}$$\end{document}∫0+∞tn-2ζ(t)dt<+∞,
i.e. \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \in D^{n-2}(\mathbb {R})$$\end{document}ζ∈Dn-2(R)
. Indeed, the following identity holds19\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \int _0^{+\infty }\mathcal {H}^{n-1}(\partial \{x:\zeta (|x|)\ge t\}) \,\mathrm {d}t= (n-1) \mathcal {H}^{n-1}({\mathbb S}^{n-1})\ \int _0^{+\infty } t^{n-2}\zeta (t) \,\mathrm {d}t. \end{aligned}$$\end{document}∫0+∞Hn-1(∂{x:ζ(|x|)≥t})dt=(n-1)Hn-1(Sn-1)∫0+∞tn-2ζ(t)dt.
Therefore, substituting \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u(x)=|x|$$\end{document}u(x)=|x|
in (17) we immediately get (18). Identity (19) can be easily proved by the co-area formula, when \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta $$\end{document}ζ
is smooth, strictly decreasing and it vanishes in \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$[t_0,+\infty )$$\end{document}[t0,+∞)
, for some \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t_0>0$$\end{document}t0>0
. The general case is the obtained by a standard approximation argument.
Lemma 3.2
(and Definition) For \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u∈Conv(Rn)
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \in {D}^{n-2}(\mathbb {R})$$\end{document}ζ∈Dn-2(R)
, an even finite Borel measure \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$S({\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle },\cdot )$$\end{document}S(⟨ζ∘u⟩,·)
on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\,{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}$$\end{document}Sn-1
is defined by the condition that20\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \int _{{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}} b(z) \,\mathrm {d}S({\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle },z) = \int _0^{+\infty } \int _{{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}} b(z) \,\mathrm {d}S(\{\zeta \circ u \ge t\},z)\,\mathrm {d}t \end{aligned}$$\end{document}∫Sn-1b(z)dS(⟨ζ∘u⟩,z)=∫0+∞∫Sn-1b(z)dS({ζ∘u≥t},z)dt
for every even continuous function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$b:{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}\rightarrow \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}b:Sn-1→R
. Moreover, if \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u_k, u\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}uk,u∈Conv(Rn)
are such that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u_k {\mathop {\longrightarrow }\limits ^{epi}}u$$\end{document}uk⟶epiu
, then the measures \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$S({\langle {\zeta \circ u_k} \rangle },\cdot )$$\end{document}S(⟨ζ∘uk⟩,·)
converge weakly to \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$S({\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle },\cdot )$$\end{document}S(⟨ζ∘u⟩,·)
.
Proof
For fixed \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u∈Conv(Rn)
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \in {D}^{n-2}(\mathbb {R})$$\end{document}ζ∈Dn-2(R)
, we have\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \left| \int _0^{+\infty } \int _{{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}} c(z) \,\mathrm {d}S(\{\zeta \circ u\ge t\},z) \,\mathrm {d}t \right| \le \max _{z\in {\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}} |c(z)| \int _0^{+\infty } \mathcal {H}^{n-1}(\partial \{\zeta \circ u \ge t\}) \,\mathrm {d}t \end{aligned}$$\end{document}∫0+∞∫Sn-1c(z)dS({ζ∘u≥t},z)dt≤maxz∈Sn-1|c(z)|∫0+∞Hn-1(∂{ζ∘u≥t})dt
for every continuous function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$c:{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}\rightarrow \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}c:Sn-1→R
. Hence Lemma 3.1 shows that\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} c\mapsto \int _0^{+\infty } \int _{{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}} c(z) \,\mathrm {d}S(\{\zeta \circ u\ge t\},z)\,\mathrm {d}t \end{aligned}$$\end{document}c↦∫0+∞∫Sn-1c(z)dS({ζ∘u≥t},z)dt
defines a non-negative, bounded linear functional on the space of continuous functions on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}$$\end{document}Sn-1
. It follows from the Riesz–Markov–Kakutani representation theorem (see, for example, [43]), that there exists a unique Borel measure \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Y}}(\zeta \circ u,\cdot )$$\end{document}Y(ζ∘u,·)
on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}$$\end{document}Sn-1
such that\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \int _{{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}} c(z) \,\mathrm {d}{\text {Y}}(\zeta \circ u,z) = \int _0^{+\infty } \int _{{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}} c(z) \,\mathrm {d}S(\{\zeta \circ u \ge t\},z)\,\mathrm {d}t \end{aligned}$$\end{document}∫Sn-1c(z)dY(ζ∘u,z)=∫0+∞∫Sn-1c(z)dS({ζ∘u≥t},z)dt
for every continuous function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$c:{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}\rightarrow \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}c:Sn-1→R
. Moreover, the measure is finite. For \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u∈Conv(Rn)
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \in {D}^{n-2}(\mathbb {R})$$\end{document}ζ∈Dn-2(R)
, define the even Borel measure \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$S({\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle }, \cdot )$$\end{document}S(⟨ζ∘u⟩,·)
on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}$$\end{document}Sn-1
as\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} S({\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle }, \cdot )=\tfrac{1}{2} \big ( {\text {Y}}(\zeta \circ u,\cdot ) + {\text {Y}}(\zeta \circ u^{\scriptscriptstyle -},\cdot )\big ), \end{aligned}$$\end{document}S(⟨ζ∘u⟩,·)=12(Y(ζ∘u,·)+Y(ζ∘u-,·)),
where \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u^{\scriptscriptstyle -}(x)=u(-x)$$\end{document}u-(x)=u(-x)
for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$x\in \mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}x∈Rn
. Note that (20) holds and that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$S({\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle }, \cdot )$$\end{document}S(⟨ζ∘u⟩,·)
is the unique even measure with this property.
Next, fix an even continuous function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$b:{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}\!\rightarrow \!\mathbb {R}$$\end{document}b:Sn-1→R
. Let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u_k,u\!\in \!{\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}uk,u∈Conv(Rn)
with \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u_k {\mathop {\longrightarrow }\limits ^{epi}}u$$\end{document}uk⟶epiu
. By Lemma 1.1, the convex sets \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\{u_k\le t\}$$\end{document}{uk≤t}
converge in the Hausdorff metric to \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\{u\le t\}$$\end{document}{u≤t}
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\ne \min _{x\in \mathbb {R}^n} u(x)$$\end{document}t≠minx∈Rnu(x)
, which implies the convergence of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\{\zeta \circ u_k\ge t\}\rightarrow \{\zeta \circ u\ge t\}$$\end{document}{ζ∘uk≥t}→{ζ∘u≥t}
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\ne \max _{x\in \mathbb {R}^n}\zeta (u(x))$$\end{document}t≠maxx∈Rnζ(u(x))
. Since the map \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$K\mapsto S(K,\cdot )$$\end{document}K↦S(K,·)
is weakly continuous on the space of convex bodies, we obtain\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \int _{{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}} b(z) \,\mathrm {d}S(\{\zeta \circ u_k \ge t\},z) \rightarrow \int _{{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}} b(z) \,\mathrm {d}S(\{\zeta \circ u \ge t\},z), \end{aligned}$$\end{document}∫Sn-1b(z)dS({ζ∘uk≥t},z)→∫Sn-1b(z)dS({ζ∘u≥t},z),
for a.e. \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\ge 0$$\end{document}t≥0
. By Lemma 1.4, there exist \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$a,d\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}a,d∈R
with \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$a>0$$\end{document}a>0
such that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u_k(x)> v(x)=a|x|+d$$\end{document}uk(x)>v(x)=a|x|+d
and therefore \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \circ u_k(x) < \zeta \circ v(x)$$\end{document}ζ∘uk(x)<ζ∘v(x)
for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$x\in \mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}x∈Rn
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$k\in \mathbb {N}$$\end{document}k∈N
. By convexity,\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \mathcal {H}^{n-1}(\partial \{\zeta \circ u_k\ge t\}) < \mathcal {H}^{n-1}(\partial \{\zeta \circ v\ge t\}) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}Hn-1(∂{ζ∘uk≥t})<Hn-1(∂{ζ∘v≥t})
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$k\in \mathbb {N}$$\end{document}k∈N
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t>0$$\end{document}t>0
and therefore\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \Big | \int _{{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}} b(z) \,\mathrm {d}S(\{\zeta \circ u_k\ge t\},z)\Big |\le & {} \max _{z\in {\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}} |b(z)|\, \, \mathcal {H}^{n-1}(\partial \{\zeta \circ u_k\ge t\})\\< & {} \max _{z\in {\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}} |b(z) |\, \, \mathcal {H}^{n-1}(\partial \{\zeta \circ v\ge t\}). \end{aligned}$$\end{document}|∫Sn-1b(z)dS({ζ∘uk≥t},z)|≤maxz∈Sn-1|b(z)|Hn-1(∂{ζ∘uk≥t})<maxz∈Sn-1|b(z)|Hn-1(∂{ζ∘v≥t}).
By Lemma 3.1, the function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\mapsto \int _{{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}} |b(z) |\,\mathrm {d}S(\{\zeta \circ v\ge t\},z)$$\end{document}t↦∫Sn-1|b(z)|dS({ζ∘v≥t},z)
is integrable. Hence, we can apply the dominated convergence theorem to conclude the proof. \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\square $$\end{document}□
For \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$p\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}p∈R
, we say that an operator \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Y}}:{\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)\rightarrow {\mathcal {M}}({\mathbb {S}}^{n-1})$$\end{document}Y:Conv(Rn)→M(Sn-1)
is \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant of degreep if for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u∈Conv(Rn)
,\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \int _{{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}}b(z) \,\mathrm {d}{\text {Y}}(u\circ \phi ^{-1},z)= \int _{{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}} b\circ \phi ^{-t}(z) \,\mathrm {d}{\text {Y}}(u,z) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}∫Sn-1b(z)dY(u∘ϕ-1,z)=∫Sn-1b∘ϕ-t(z)dY(u,z)
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\phi \in {\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}ϕ∈SL(n)
and every continuous p-homogeneous function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$b:\mathbb {R}^n\backslash \{0\}\rightarrow \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}b:Rn\{0}→R
. This definition generalizes (13) from convex bodies to convex functions. We say that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Y}}$$\end{document}Y
is decreasing on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}Conv(Rn)
, if the real valued function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\mapsto {\text {Y}}(u,{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1})$$\end{document}u↦Y(u,Sn-1)
is decreasing on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}Conv(Rn)
, that is, if \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\ge v$$\end{document}u≥v
, then \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Y}}(u,{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1})\le {\text {Y}}(v,{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1})$$\end{document}Y(u,Sn-1)≤Y(v,Sn-1)
. Similarly, we define increasing and we say that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Y}}$$\end{document}Y
is monotone if it is decreasing or increasing.
Proof
As \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$K\mapsto S(K,\cdot )$$\end{document}K↦S(K,·)
is translation invariant, it follows from the definition that also \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$S({\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle },\cdot )$$\end{document}S(⟨ζ∘u⟩,·)
is translation invariant. Lemma 3.2 gives weak continuity. If \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u,v\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u,v∈Conv(Rn)
are such that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\ge v$$\end{document}u≥v
, then\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \{u\le s\} \subseteq \{v\le s\},\qquad \{\zeta \circ u\ge t\} \subseteq \{\zeta \circ v \ge t\} \end{aligned}$$\end{document}{u≤s}⊆{v≤s},{ζ∘u≥t}⊆{ζ∘v≥t}
and consequently by convexity\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} S(\{\zeta \circ u \ge t\},{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1})\le S(\{\zeta \circ v\ge t\},{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}), \end{aligned}$$\end{document}S({ζ∘u≥t},Sn-1)≤S({ζ∘v≥t},Sn-1),
for all \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$s\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}s∈R
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t> 0$$\end{document}t>0
. For \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\phi \in {\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}ϕ∈SL(n)
,\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \{\zeta \circ u \circ \phi ^{-1} \ge t\}=\phi \, \{\zeta \circ u\ge t\}, \end{aligned}$$\end{document}{ζ∘u∘ϕ-1≥t}=ϕ{ζ∘u≥t},
and hence by the properties of the surface area measure, we obtain\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \int _{{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}} b(z) \,\mathrm {d}S({\langle {\zeta \circ u\circ \phi ^{-1}} \rangle },z)= & {} \int _0^{+\infty } \int _{{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}} b(z) \,\mathrm {d}S(\phi \{\zeta \circ u\ge t\},z) \,\mathrm {d}t\\= & {} \int _0^{+\infty } \int _{{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}} b\circ \phi ^{-t}(z) \,\mathrm {d}S(\{\zeta \circ u\ge t\},z)\,\mathrm {d}t \\= & {} \int _{{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}} b\circ \phi ^{-t} (z) \,\mathrm {d}S({\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle },z) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}∫Sn-1b(z)dS(⟨ζ∘u∘ϕ-1⟩,z)=∫0+∞∫Sn-1b(z)dS(ϕ{ζ∘u≥t},z)dt=∫0+∞∫Sn-1b∘ϕ-t(z)dS({ζ∘u≥t},z)dt=∫Sn-1b∘ϕ-t(z)dS(⟨ζ∘u⟩,z)
for every continuous 1-homogeneous function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$b:\mathbb {R}^n\backslash \{0\}\rightarrow \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}b:Rn\{0}→R
. Finally, let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u,v\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u,v∈Conv(Rn)
be such that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\wedge v\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u∧v∈Conv(Rn)
. Since \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \in {D}^{n-2}(\mathbb {R})$$\end{document}ζ∈Dn-2(R)
is decreasing, we obtain by (5) and the valuation property of the surface area measure that\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \int _{{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}}&b(z) \,\mathrm {d}\big (S({\langle {\zeta \circ (u\vee v)} \rangle },z)+ S({\langle {\zeta \circ (u\wedge v)} \rangle },z)\big )\\&= \int _0^{+\infty } \int _{{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}} b(z)\,\mathrm {d}\big (S(\{\zeta \circ u \mathbin {\wedge }\zeta \circ v \ge t\}, z) + S(\{\zeta \circ u \mathbin {\vee }\zeta \circ v \ge t\},z)\big ) \,\mathrm {d}t\\&= \int _0^{+\infty } \int _{{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}} b(z) \,\mathrm {d}\big (S(\{\zeta \circ u\ge t\}\cap \{\zeta \circ v\ge t\},z) \\&\quad + S(\{\zeta \circ u\ge t\}\cup \{\zeta \circ v\ge t\}, z)\big ) \,\mathrm {d}t\\&= \int _0^{+\infty } \int _{{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}} b(z) \,\mathrm {d}\big (S(\{\zeta \circ u\ge t\},z) +S(\{\zeta \circ v\ge t\},z)\big ) \,\mathrm {d}t\\&= \int _{{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}} b(z) \,\mathrm {d}\big ( S({\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle },z)+ \,\mathrm {d}S({\langle {\zeta \circ v} \rangle },z)\big ). \end{aligned}$$\end{document}∫Sn-1b(z)d(S(⟨ζ∘(u∨v)⟩,z)+S(⟨ζ∘(u∧v)⟩,z))=∫0+∞∫Sn-1b(z)d(S({ζ∘u∧ζ∘v≥t},z)+S({ζ∘u∨ζ∘v≥t},z))dt=∫0+∞∫Sn-1b(z)d(S({ζ∘u≥t}∩{ζ∘v≥t},z)+S({ζ∘u≥t}∪{ζ∘v≥t},z))dt=∫0+∞∫Sn-1b(z)d(S({ζ∘u≥t},z)+S({ζ∘v≥t},z))dt=∫Sn-1b(z)d(S(⟨ζ∘u⟩,z)+dS(⟨ζ∘v⟩,z)).
Hence (21) defines a valuation. \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\square $$\end{document}□
We remark that Tuo Wang [48] extended the definition of the LYZ measure from \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${W^{1,1}(\mathbb {R}^n)}$$\end{document}W1,1(Rn)
to the space of functions of bounded variation, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {BV}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}BV(Rn)
, using a generalization of (15). The co-area formula (see [6, Theorem 3.40]) and Lemma 3.1 imply that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \circ u\in {\text {BV}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}ζ∘u∈BV(Rn)
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \in {D}^{n-2}(\mathbb {R})$$\end{document}ζ∈Dn-2(R)
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u∈Conv(Rn)
. However, our approach is slightly different from [48]. The extended operators are the same for functions in \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}Conv(Rn)
that do not vanish a.e., but we assign a non-trivial measure also to functions whose support is \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$(n-1)$$\end{document}(n-1)
-dimensional. In this case, the LYZ measure is concentrated on a great subsphere of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}$$\end{document}Sn-1
and hence we are able to associate to such a function an \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$(n-1)$$\end{document}(n-1)
-dimensional convex body as a solution of the Minkowski problem but not an n-dimensional convex body. Since Blaschke sums are defined on n-dimensional convex bodies, we do not obtain a characterization of the LYZ operator as a Blaschke valuation on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}Conv(Rn)
. Note that Wang’s definition allows to extend the LYZ operator to \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {BV}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}BV(Rn)
with values in the space of n-dimensional convex bodies. However, Wang’s extended operators \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$f\mapsto S({\langle {f} \rangle },\cdot )$$\end{document}f↦S(⟨f⟩,·)
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$f\mapsto {\langle {f} \rangle }$$\end{document}f↦⟨f⟩
are only semi-valuations (see [50] for the definition) but no longer valuations on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {BV}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}BV(Rn)
and Wang [50] characterizes \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$f\mapsto {\langle {f} \rangle }$$\end{document}f↦⟨f⟩
as a Blaschke semi-valuation.
\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\mathbf{SL}(\mathbf{n})$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant Minkowski valuations on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathbf{Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}Conv(Rn)
The operator that appears in Theorem 1 is defined. It is shown that it is a continuous, monotone, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant and translation invariant Minkowski valuation.
By (11) and the definition of the cosine transform, the support function of the classical projection body is the cosine transform of the surface area measure. Since the measure \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$S({\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle },\cdot )$$\end{document}S(⟨ζ∘u⟩,·)
, defined in Lemma 3.2, is finite for all \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \in {D}^{n-2}(\mathbb {R})$$\end{document}ζ∈Dn-2(R)
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u∈Conv(Rn)
, the cosine transform of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$S({\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle },\cdot )$$\end{document}S(⟨ζ∘u⟩,·)
is finite and setting\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} h(\Pi \,{\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle },z)=\tfrac{1}{2} {\mathscr {C}}S({\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle },\cdot )(z) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h(Π⟨ζ∘u⟩,z)=12CS(⟨ζ∘u⟩,·)(z)
for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$z\in \mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}z∈Rn
, defines a convex body \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\Pi \,{\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle }$$\end{document}Π⟨ζ∘u⟩
for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \in {D}^{n-2}(\mathbb {R})$$\end{document}ζ∈Dn-2(R)
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u∈Conv(Rn)
. Here we use that the cosine transform of a measure gives a non-negative and sublinear function, which also shows that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\Pi \,{\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle }$$\end{document}Π⟨ζ∘u⟩
contains the origin. By the definition of the cosine transform and the definition of the LYZ measure \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$S({\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle },\cdot )$$\end{document}S(⟨ζ∘u⟩,·)
, we have22\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} h(\Pi \,{\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle },z)= & {} \tfrac{1}{2} \int _{{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}} |y\cdot z |\,\mathrm {d}S({\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle },y)\nonumber \\= & {} \tfrac{1}{2} \int _0^{+\infty } \int _{{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}} |y \cdot z| \,\mathrm {d}S(\{\zeta \circ u \ge t\},y) \,\mathrm {d}t \\= & {} \int _{0}^{+\infty } h(\Pi \,\{\zeta \circ u \ge t\},z) \,\mathrm {d}t\nonumber \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h(Π⟨ζ∘u⟩,z)=12∫Sn-1|y·z|dS(⟨ζ∘u⟩,y)=12∫0+∞∫Sn-1|y·z|dS({ζ∘u≥t},y)dt=∫0+∞h(Π{ζ∘u≥t},z)dt
for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \in {D}^{n-2}(\mathbb {R})$$\end{document}ζ∈Dn-2(R)
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u∈Conv(Rn)
. Hence the projection body of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \circ u$$\end{document}ζ∘u
is a Minkowski average of the classical projection bodies of the sublevel sets of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \circ u$$\end{document}ζ∘u
.
Using the definition of the classical projection body (11), (10), the definition (9) of projections of quasi-concave functions and (8), we also obtain for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$z\in {\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}$$\end{document}z∈Sn-1
23\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} h(\Pi \,{\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle },z)= & {} \displaystyle \int _0^{+\infty } h(\Pi \,\{\zeta \circ u\ge t\},z)\,\mathrm {d}t \nonumber \\= & {} \displaystyle \int _0^{+\infty } V_{n-1} ({\text {proj}}_{z^\bot } \{\zeta \circ u \ge t\}) \,\mathrm {d}t \nonumber \\= & {} \displaystyle \int _0^{+\infty } V_{n-1}(\{{\text {proj}}_{z^\bot } (\zeta \circ u)\ge t\}) \,\mathrm {d}t \nonumber \\= & {} \displaystyle V_{n-1}({\text {proj}}_{z^\bot } (\zeta \circ u)). \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h(Π⟨ζ∘u⟩,z)=∫0+∞h(Π{ζ∘u≥t},z)dt=∫0+∞Vn-1(projz⊥{ζ∘u≥t})dt=∫0+∞Vn-1({projz⊥(ζ∘u)≥t})dt=Vn-1(projz⊥(ζ∘u)).
Thus the definition of the projection body of the function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \circ u$$\end{document}ζ∘u
is analog to the definition of the projection body of a convex body (11). In [5], this connection was established for functions that are log-concave and in \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${W^{1,1}(\mathbb {R}^n)}$$\end{document}W1,1(Rn)
.
Proof
Let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \in {D}^{n-2}(\mathbb {R})$$\end{document}ζ∈Dn-2(R)
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u∈Conv(Rn)
. By (12) and (22), we get for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\phi \in {\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}ϕ∈SL(n)
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$z\in {\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}$$\end{document}z∈Sn-1
,\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} h(\Pi \,{\langle {\zeta \circ u\circ \phi ^{-1}} \rangle }, z)= & {} \int _0^\infty h(\Pi \,\{\zeta \circ u\circ \phi ^{-1}\ge t\},z) \,\mathrm {d}t\\= & {} \int _0^\infty h(\Pi \,\phi \{\zeta \circ u\ge t\},z) \,\mathrm {d}t\\= & {} \int _0^\infty h( \phi ^{-t}\Pi \,\{\zeta \circ u\ge t\},z) \,\mathrm {d}t\\= & {} \int _0^\infty h( \Pi \,\{\zeta \circ u\ge t\}, \phi ^{-1} z) \,\mathrm {d}t\, \,=\, \,h(\Pi \,{\langle {\zeta \circ u,} \rangle } \phi ^{-1}z). \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h(Π⟨ζ∘u∘ϕ-1⟩,z)=∫0∞h(Π{ζ∘u∘ϕ-1≥t},z)dt=∫0∞h(Πϕ{ζ∘u≥t},z)dt=∫0∞h(ϕ-tΠ{ζ∘u≥t},z)dt=∫0∞h(Π{ζ∘u≥t},ϕ-1z)dt=h(Π⟨ζ∘u,⟩ϕ-1z).
Similarly, we get for every translation \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\tau $$\end{document}τ
on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}Rn
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$z\in {\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}$$\end{document}z∈Sn-1
,\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} h(\Pi \,{\langle {\zeta \circ u\circ \tau ^{-1}} \rangle }, z)= h(\Pi \,{\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle }, z). \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h(Π⟨ζ∘u∘τ-1⟩,z)=h(Π⟨ζ∘u⟩,z).
Thus for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\phi \in {\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}ϕ∈SL(n)
and every translation \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\tau $$\end{document}τ
on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}Rn
,\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \Pi \,{\langle {\zeta \circ u\circ \phi ^{-1}} \rangle } =\phi ^{-t} \Pi \,{\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle } \quad \text { and }\quad \Pi \,{\langle {\zeta \circ u\circ \tau ^{-1}} \rangle }=\Pi \,{\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle } \end{aligned}$$\end{document}Π⟨ζ∘u∘ϕ-1⟩=ϕ-tΠ⟨ζ∘u⟩andΠ⟨ζ∘u∘τ-1⟩=Π⟨ζ∘u⟩
and the map defined in (24) is translation invariant and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant. By Lemma 3.3, the map \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\mapsto S({\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle },\cdot )$$\end{document}u↦S(⟨ζ∘u⟩,·)
is a weakly continuous valuation. Hence, the definition of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\Pi \,{\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle }$$\end{document}Π⟨ζ∘u⟩
via the cosine transform and (4) imply that (24) is a continuous Minkowski valuation. Finally, let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \in {D}^{n-2}(\mathbb {R})$$\end{document}ζ∈Dn-2(R)
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u,v\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u,v∈Conv(Rn)
be such that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\ge v$$\end{document}u≥v
. Then \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\{\zeta \circ u\ge t\} \subseteq \{\zeta \circ v\ge t\}$$\end{document}{ζ∘u≥t}⊆{ζ∘v≥t}
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t \ge 0$$\end{document}t≥0
and consequently, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$h(\Pi \,\{\zeta \circ u\ge t\},z) \le h(\Pi \,\{\zeta \circ v\ge t\}, z)$$\end{document}h(Π{ζ∘u≥t},z)≤h(Π{ζ∘v≥t},z)
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$z\in {\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}$$\end{document}z∈Sn-1
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t >0$$\end{document}t>0
. Hence, for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$z\in {\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}$$\end{document}z∈Sn-1
,\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} h(\Pi \,{\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle },z) = \int \limits _0^{+\infty } h(\Pi \,\{\zeta \circ u\ge t\},z) \,\mathrm {d}t \le \int \limits _0^{+\infty } h(\Pi \,\{\zeta \circ v\ge t\},z) \,\mathrm {d}t = h(\Pi \,{\langle {\zeta \circ v} \rangle },z), \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h(Π⟨ζ∘u⟩,z)=∫0+∞h(Π{ζ∘u≥t},z)dt≤∫0+∞h(Π{ζ∘v≥t},z)dt=h(Π⟨ζ∘v⟩,z),
or equivalently \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\Pi \,{\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle } \subseteq \Pi \,{\langle {\zeta \circ v} \rangle }$$\end{document}Π⟨ζ∘u⟩⊆Π⟨ζ∘v⟩
. Thus the map defined in (24) is decreasing. \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\square $$\end{document}□
Classification of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\mathbf{SL}(\mathbf{n})$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant Minkowski valuations
The aim of this section is to prove Theorem 1. Let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$n\ge 3$$\end{document}n≥3
and recall the definition of the cone function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\ell _K$$\end{document}ℓK
from (6).
Lemma 5.1
If \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\,{\text {Z}}\,:{\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)\rightarrow {\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}Z:Conv(Rn)→Kn
is a continuous and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant Minkowski valuation, then there exist continuous functions \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi ,\zeta :\mathbb {R}\rightarrow [0,\infty )$$\end{document}ψ,ζ:R→[0,∞)
such that\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} {\text {Z}}\,(\ell _K+t)= & {} \psi (t) \Pi \, K,\\ {\text {Z}}\,(\mathrm {I}_K+t)= & {} \zeta (t) \Pi \, K \end{aligned}$$\end{document}Z(ℓK+t)=ψ(t)ΠK,Z(IK+t)=ζ(t)ΠK
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$K\in {\mathcal {K}}^n_{0}$$\end{document}K∈K0n
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
.
Proof
For \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
, define \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,_t:{\mathcal {K}}^n_{0}\rightarrow {\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}Zt:K0n→Kn
as\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} {\text {Z}}\,_t K = {\text {Z}}\,(\ell _K+t). \end{aligned}$$\end{document}ZtK=Z(ℓK+t).
Now, for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$K,L\in {\mathcal {K}}^n_{0}$$\end{document}K,L∈K0n
such that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$K\cup L \in {\mathcal {K}}^n_{0}$$\end{document}K∪L∈K0n
, we have \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$(\ell _K+t) \mathbin {\wedge }(\ell _L+t) = \ell _{K\cup L}+t$$\end{document}(ℓK+t)∧(ℓL+t)=ℓK∪L+t
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$(\ell _K+t) \mathbin {\vee }(\ell _L+t) = \ell _{K\cap L}+t$$\end{document}(ℓK+t)∨(ℓL+t)=ℓK∩L+t
. Using that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
is a valuation, we get\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} {\text {Z}}\,_t K +{\text {Z}}\,_t L= & {} {\text {Z}}\,(\ell _K+t) + {\text {Z}}\,(\ell _L+t)\\= & {} {\text {Z}}\,((\ell _K+t) \mathbin {\vee }(\ell _L+t)) + {\text {Z}}\,((\ell _K+t) \mathbin {\wedge }(\ell _L+t)) \\= & {} {\text {Z}}\,_t(K \cup L) + {\text {Z}}\,_t(K \cap L), \end{aligned}$$\end{document}ZtK+ZtL=Z(ℓK+t)+Z(ℓL+t)=Z((ℓK+t)∨(ℓL+t))+Z((ℓK+t)∧(ℓL+t))=Zt(K∪L)+Zt(K∩L),
which shows that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,_t$$\end{document}Zt
is a Minkowski valuation for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
. Since \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
is \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant, we obtain for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\phi \in {\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}ϕ∈SL(n)
that\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} {\text {Z}}\,_t(\phi K) = {\text {Z}}\,(\ell _{\phi K}+t) = {\text {Z}}\,((\ell _K+t) \circ \phi ^{-1}) = \phi ^{-t} {\text {Z}}\,(\ell _K+t) = \phi ^{-t} {\text {Z}}\,_t K. \end{aligned}$$\end{document}Zt(ϕK)=Z(ℓϕK+t)=Z((ℓK+t)∘ϕ-1)=ϕ-tZ(ℓK+t)=ϕ-tZtK.
Therefore, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,_t$$\end{document}Zt
is a continuous, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant Minkowski valuation, where the continuity follows from Lemma 1.1. By Theorem 2.2, there exists a non-negative constant \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$c_t$$\end{document}ct
such that\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} {\text {Z}}\,(\ell _K+t) = {\text {Z}}\,_t K = c_t\, \Pi \,K \end{aligned}$$\end{document}Z(ℓK+t)=ZtK=ctΠK
for all \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$K\in {\mathcal {K}}^n_{0}$$\end{document}K∈K0n
. This defines a function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi (t)=c_t$$\end{document}ψ(t)=ct
, which is continuous due to the continuity of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
. Similarly, using \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,_t(K)={\text {Z}}\,(\mathrm {I}_K+t)$$\end{document}Zt(K)=Z(IK+t)
, we obtain the function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta $$\end{document}ζ
. \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\square $$\end{document}□
For a continuous, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant Minkowski valuation \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,:{\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)\rightarrow {\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}Z:Conv(Rn)→Kn
, we call the function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi $$\end{document}ψ
from Lemma 5.1 the cone growth function of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
. The function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta $$\end{document}ζ
is called its indicator growth function. By Lemma 1.7, we immediately get the following result.
Lemma 5.2
Every continuous, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant and translation invariant Minkowski valuation \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,:{\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)\rightarrow {\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}Z:Conv(Rn)→Kn
is uniquely determined by its cone growth function.
Next, we establish an important connection between cone and indicator growth functions.
Proof
We fix the \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$(n-1)$$\end{document}(n-1)
-dimensional linear subspace \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$E=e_n^\perp $$\end{document}E=en⊥
of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}Rn
. Since E is of dimension \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$(n-1)$$\end{document}(n-1)
, we can identify the set of functions \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u∈Conv(Rn)
such that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {dom}}u\subseteq E$$\end{document}domu⊆E
with \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^{n-1})={\text {Conv}}(E)$$\end{document}Conv(Rn-1)=Conv(E)
. We define \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Y}}:{\text {Conv}}(E)\rightarrow \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}Y:Conv(E)→R
by\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} {\text {Y}}(u)=h({\text {Z}}\,(u),e_n). \end{aligned}$$\end{document}Y(u)=h(Z(u),en).
Since \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
is a Minkowski valuation, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Y}}$$\end{document}Y
is a real valued valuation. Moreover, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Y}}$$\end{document}Y
is continuous and translation invariant, since \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
has these properties. By the definition of the growth functions we now get\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} {\text {Y}}(\ell _P+t)=h({\text {Z}}\,(\ell _P+t),e_n)=\psi (t)h(\Pi \,P,e_n) = \psi (t) V_{n-1}(P) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}Y(ℓP+t)=h(Z(ℓP+t),en)=ψ(t)h(ΠP,en)=ψ(t)Vn-1(P)
and\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} {\text {Y}}(\mathrm {I}_P+t) = h({\text {Z}}\,(\mathrm {I}_P+t),e_n) = \zeta (t)h(\Pi \,P,e_n) = \zeta (t) V_{n-1}(P) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}Y(IP+t)=h(Z(IP+t),en)=ζ(t)h(ΠP,en)=ζ(t)Vn-1(P)
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$P\in {\mathcal {P}}_{0}^{n-1}(E)=\{P\in {\mathcal {P}}^n_{0}\,:\,P\subset E\}$$\end{document}P∈P0n-1(E)={P∈P0n:P⊂E}
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
. Hence, by Lemma 1.5,\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \zeta (t)=\zeta (t)\,V_{n-1}([0,1]^{n-1}) = {\text {Y}}(\mathrm {I}_{[0,1]^{n-1}}+t) = \frac{(-1)^{n-1}}{(n-1)!}\frac{\,\mathrm {d}^{n-1}}{\,\mathrm {d}t^{n-1}}\psi (t) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}ζ(t)=ζ(t)Vn-1([0,1]n-1)=Y(I[0,1]n-1+t)=(-1)n-1(n-1)!dn-1dtn-1ψ(t)
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
, where \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$[0,1]^{n-1} = [0,1]^n \cap E$$\end{document}[0,1]n-1=[0,1]n∩E
. \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\square $$\end{document}□
Next, we establish important properties of the cone growth function.
Proof
In order to prove that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi $$\end{document}ψ
is decreasing, we have to show that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi (s)\ge \psi (t)$$\end{document}ψ(s)≥ψ(t)
for all \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$s<t$$\end{document}s<t
. Without loss of generality, we assume that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$s=0$$\end{document}s=0
, since for arbitrary s we can consider \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\widetilde{{\text {Z}}\,}(u)={\text {Z}}\,(u+s)$$\end{document}Z~(u)=Z(u+s)
with cone growth function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\widetilde{\psi }$$\end{document}ψ~
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\widetilde{\psi }(0)=\psi (s)$$\end{document}ψ~(0)=ψ(s)
. Hence, for the remainder of the proof we fix an arbitrary \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t>0$$\end{document}t>0
and we have to show that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi (t)\le \psi (0)$$\end{document}ψ(t)≤ψ(0)
.
Define the polytopes P and Q as in Lemma 2.1. Choose \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u_t\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}ut∈Conv(Rn)
such that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {epi}}u_t={\text {epi}}\ell _P \cap \{x_1\le \tfrac{t}{2}\}$$\end{document}epiut=epiℓP∩{x1≤t2}
. Let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\tau _t$$\end{document}τt
be the translation \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$x\mapsto x+\tfrac{t}{2} (e_1+e_2)$$\end{document}x↦x+t2(e1+e2)
and define \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\ell _{P,t}(x)=\ell _P(x)\circ \tau _t^{-1}+t$$\end{document}ℓP,t(x)=ℓP(x)∘τt-1+t
and similarly \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\ell _{Q,t}(x)=\ell _Q(x)\circ \tau _t^{-1}+t$$\end{document}ℓQ,t(x)=ℓQ(x)∘τt-1+t
. Note that\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} u_t \mathbin {\wedge }\ell _{P,t} = \ell _P \qquad \text { and }\qquad u_t \vee \ell _{P,t} = \ell _{Q,t}. \end{aligned}$$\end{document}ut∧ℓP,t=ℓPandut∨ℓP,t=ℓQ,t.
Thus, the valuation property of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
gives\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} {\text {Z}}\,(u_t)+{\text {Z}}\,(\ell _{P,t})= {\text {Z}}\,(u_t\wedge \ell _{P,t})+{\text {Z}}\,(u_t\vee \ell _{P,t}) = {\text {Z}}\,(\ell _P)+{\text {Z}}\,(\ell _{Q,t}). \end{aligned}$$\end{document}Z(ut)+Z(ℓP,t)=Z(ut∧ℓP,t)+Z(ut∨ℓP,t)=Z(ℓP)+Z(ℓQ,t).
Using the translation invariance of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
and the definition of the cone growth function, this gives for the support functions26\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} h({\text {Z}}\,(u_t),\cdot )=(\psi (0)-\psi (t))h(\Pi \,P,\cdot )+\psi (t)h(\Pi \,Q,\cdot ). \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h(Z(ut),·)=(ψ(0)-ψ(t))h(ΠP,·)+ψ(t)h(ΠQ,·).
Since \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,(u_t)$$\end{document}Z(ut)
is a convex body, its support function is sublinear. This yields\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} h({\text {Z}}\,(u_t),e_1+e_2)\le h({\text {Z}}\,(u_t),e_1)+h({\text {Z}}\,(u_t),e_2) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h(Z(ut),e1+e2)≤h(Z(ut),e1)+h(Z(ut),e2)
and\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned}&(\psi (0)-\psi (t))h(\Pi \,P,e_1+e_2)+\psi (t)h(\Pi \,Q,e_1+e_2)\\&\quad \le (\psi (0)-\psi (t))\big (h(\Pi \,P,e_1)+h(\Pi \,P,e_2)\big ) + \psi (t)\big (h(\Pi \,Q,e_1)+h(\Pi \,Q,e_2)\big ). \end{aligned}$$\end{document}(ψ(0)-ψ(t))h(ΠP,e1+e2)+ψ(t)h(ΠQ,e1+e2)≤(ψ(0)-ψ(t))(h(ΠP,e1)+h(ΠP,e2))+ψ(t)(h(ΠQ,e1)+h(ΠQ,e2)).
Using Lemma 2.1, we obtain\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} (\psi (0)-\psi (t))\tfrac{1}{(n-1)!}+\psi (t)\tfrac{1}{(n-1)!}\le & {} (\psi (0)-\psi (t))(\tfrac{1}{(n-1)!}+\tfrac{1}{2(n-1)!}) + \psi (t)(\tfrac{1}{(n-1)!}+0),\\ 0\le & {} (\psi (0) - \psi (t))\tfrac{1}{2(n-1)!}, \end{aligned}$$\end{document}(ψ(0)-ψ(t))1(n-1)!+ψ(t)1(n-1)!≤(ψ(0)-ψ(t))(1(n-1)!+12(n-1)!)+ψ(t)(1(n-1)!+0),0≤(ψ(0)-ψ(t))12(n-1)!,
which holds if and only if \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi (t)\le \psi (0)$$\end{document}ψ(t)≤ψ(0)
.
In order to show (25), let t in the construction above go to \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$+\infty $$\end{document}+∞
. It is easy to see, that in this case \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u_t$$\end{document}ut
is epi-convergent to \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\ell _P$$\end{document}ℓP
. Since \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi $$\end{document}ψ
is decreasing and non-negative, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\lim _{t\rightarrow +\infty }\psi (t)\!=\!\psi _\infty $$\end{document}limt→+∞ψ(t)=ψ∞
exists. Taking limits in (26) therefore yields\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \psi (0) h(\Pi \,P,\cdot )=h({\text {Z}}\,(\ell _P),\cdot )=(\psi (0)-\psi _\infty )\,h(\Pi \,P,\cdot )+\psi _\infty \,h(\Pi \,Q,\cdot ). \end{aligned}$$\end{document}ψ(0)h(ΠP,·)=h(Z(ℓP),·)=(ψ(0)-ψ∞)h(ΠP,·)+ψ∞h(ΠQ,·).
Evaluating at \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$e_2$$\end{document}e2
now gives \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi _\infty =0$$\end{document}ψ∞=0
. \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\square $$\end{document}□
By Lemma 1.7, we obtain the following result as an immediate corollary from the last result. We call a Minkowski valuation on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}Conv(Rn)
trivial if \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,(u)=\{0\}$$\end{document}Z(u)={0}
for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u∈Conv(Rn)
.
Lemma 5.6
Every continuous, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant and translation invariant Minkowski valuation \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,:{\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)\rightarrow {\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}Z:Conv(Rn)→Kn
is uniquely determined by its indicator growth function.
Proof of Theorem 1
If \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \in {D}^{n-2}(\mathbb {R})$$\end{document}ζ∈Dn-2(R)
, then Lemma 4.1 shows that the operator \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u \mapsto \Pi \,{\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle }$$\end{document}u↦Π⟨ζ∘u⟩
defines a continuous, decreasing, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant and translation invariant Minkowski valuation on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}Conv(Rn)
.
Conversely, let a continuous, monotone, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant and translation invariant Minkowski valuation \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
be given and let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta $$\end{document}ζ
be its indicator growth function. Lemma 5.5 implies that we may assume that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
is decreasing. It follows from the definition of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta $$\end{document}ζ
in Lemma 5.1 that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta $$\end{document}ζ
is non-negative and continuous. To see that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta $$\end{document}ζ
is decreasing, note that by the definition of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta $$\end{document}ζ
in Lemma 5.1,\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} h({\text {Z}}\,(\mathrm {I}_{[0,1]^n}+t),e_1)=\zeta (t)\,h(\Pi \,[0,1]^n,e_1)=\zeta (t) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h(Z(I[0,1]n+t),e1)=ζ(t)h(Π[0,1]n,e1)=ζ(t)
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
and that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
is decreasing. By Lemma 5.3 combined with Lemma 1.6, the function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta $$\end{document}ζ
has finite \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$(n-2)$$\end{document}(n-2)
-nd moment. Thus \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \in {D}^{n-2}(\mathbb {R})$$\end{document}ζ∈Dn-2(R)
.
For \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u=\mathrm {I}_P+t$$\end{document}u=IP+t
with \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$P\in {\mathcal {P}}^n_{0}$$\end{document}P∈P0n
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
, we obtain by (22) that\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} h(\Pi \,{\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle },z) = \int _0^{+\infty } h(\Pi \,\{\zeta \circ u\ge s\},z) \,\mathrm {d}s = \zeta (t)\, h(\Pi \,P,z) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h(Π⟨ζ∘u⟩,z)=∫0+∞h(Π{ζ∘u≥s},z)ds=ζ(t)h(ΠP,z)
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$z\in {\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}$$\end{document}z∈Sn-1
. Hence \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\Pi \,{\langle {\zeta \circ (\mathrm {I}_P+t)} \rangle }= \zeta (t)\Pi \,P$$\end{document}Π⟨ζ∘(IP+t)⟩=ζ(t)ΠP
for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$P\in {\mathcal {P}}^n_{0}$$\end{document}P∈P0n
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
. By Lemma 4.1,\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} u \mapsto \Pi \,{\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle } \end{aligned}$$\end{document}u↦Π⟨ζ∘u⟩
defines a continuous, decreasing, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant and translation invariant Minkowski valuation on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}Conv(Rn)
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta $$\end{document}ζ
is its indicator growth function. Thus Lemma 5.6 completes the proof of the theorem.
Classification of measure-valued valuations
The aim of this section is to prove Theorem 3. Let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$n\ge 3$$\end{document}n≥3
.
Lemma 6.1
If \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\,{\text {Y}}:{\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)\rightarrow {\mathcal {M}}_e({\mathbb {S}}^{n-1})$$\end{document}Y:Conv(Rn)→Me(Sn-1)
is a weakly continuous valuation that is \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant of degree 1, then there exist continuous functions \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi ,\zeta :\mathbb {R}\rightarrow [0,\infty )$$\end{document}ψ,ζ:R→[0,∞)
such that\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} {\text {Y}}(\ell _K+t,\cdot )= & {} \tfrac{1}{2} \psi (t)\big (S(K,\cdot )+S(-K,\cdot )\big ),\\ {\text {Y}}(\mathrm {I}_K+t,\cdot )= & {} \tfrac{1}{2} \zeta (t)\big (S(K,\cdot )+S(-K,\cdot )\big ) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}Y(ℓK+t,·)=12ψ(t)(S(K,·)+S(-K,·)),Y(IK+t,·)=12ζ(t)(S(K,·)+S(-K,·))
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$K\in {\mathcal {K}}^n_{0}$$\end{document}K∈K0n
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
.
Proof
For \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
, define \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Y}}_t:{\mathcal {K}}^n_{0}\rightarrow {\mathcal {M}}_e({\mathbb {S}}^{n-1})$$\end{document}Yt:K0n→Me(Sn-1)
as\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} {\text {Y}}_t(K,\cdot ) ={\text {Y}}(\ell _K+t,\cdot ). \end{aligned}$$\end{document}Yt(K,·)=Y(ℓK+t,·).
As in the proof of Lemma 5.1, we see that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Y}}_t$$\end{document}Yt
is a weakly continuous valuation that is \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant of degree 1 for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
. By Theorem 2.6 and (14), for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
, there is \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$c_{t}\ge 0$$\end{document}ct≥0
such that\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} {\text {Y}}_t(K,\cdot )= {\text {Y}}(\ell _K+t,\cdot ) = c_{t}\big ( S(K,\cdot ) + S(-K,\cdot )\big ) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}Yt(K,·)=Y(ℓK+t,·)=ct(S(K,·)+S(-K,·))
for all \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$K\in {\mathcal {K}}^n_{0}$$\end{document}K∈K0n
. This defines a non-negative function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi (t)=\tfrac{1}{2} c_{t}$$\end{document}ψ(t)=12ct
. Since \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\mapsto {\text {Y}}(\ell _K+t, {\mathbb {S}}^{n-1})$$\end{document}t↦Y(ℓK+t,Sn-1)
is continuous, also \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi $$\end{document}ψ
is continuous. The result for indicator functions and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta $$\end{document}ζ
follows along similar lines. \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\square $$\end{document}□
For a weakly continuous valuation \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Y}}:{\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)\rightarrow {\mathcal {M}}_e({\mathbb {S}}^{n-1})$$\end{document}Y:Conv(Rn)→Me(Sn-1)
that is \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant of degree 1, we call the function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi $$\end{document}ψ
from Lemma 6.1, the cone growth function of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Y}}$$\end{document}Y
and we call the function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta $$\end{document}ζ
its indicator growth function.
Proof
Recall that the cosine transform \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathscr {C}}{\text {Y}}(u,\cdot )$$\end{document}CY(u,·)
is the support function of a convex body that contains the origin for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u∈Conv(Rn)
. By the properties of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Y}}$$\end{document}Y
, this induces a continuous, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant and translation invariant Minkowski valuation \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,:{\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)\rightarrow {\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}Z:Conv(Rn)→Kn
via\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} h({\text {Z}}\,(u),y)=\tfrac{1}{2} {\mathscr {C}}{\text {Y}}(u,\cdot )(y) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h(Z(u),y)=12CY(u,·)(y)
for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$y\in \mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}y∈Rn
. By Lemma 6.1, we have\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} h({\text {Z}}\,(\ell _K+t),y) = \tfrac{1}{2} {\mathscr {C}} \big (\tfrac{1}{2} \psi (t)(S(K,\cdot )+S(-K,\cdot ))\big ) (y) = \psi (t) h(\Pi K, y) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h(Z(ℓK+t),y)=12C(12ψ(t)(S(K,·)+S(-K,·)))(y)=ψ(t)h(ΠK,y)
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$K\in {\mathcal {K}}^n_{0}$$\end{document}K∈K0n
, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$y\in \mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}y∈Rn
. Hence, by Lemma 5.1, the function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi $$\end{document}ψ
is the cone growth function of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
. Similarly, it can be seen, that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta $$\end{document}ζ
is the indicator growth function of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
. The result now follows from Lemma 5.3 and Lemma 5.4. \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\square $$\end{document}□
Lemma 6.3
Every weakly continuous, increasing valuation \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Y}}:{\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)\rightarrow {\mathcal {M}}_e({\mathbb {S}}^{n-1})$$\end{document}Y:Conv(Rn)→Me(Sn-1)
that is \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant of degree 1 and translation invariant is trivial.
Proof
Since \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Y}}$$\end{document}Y
is increasing, Lemma 6.1 implies that for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$s<t$$\end{document}s<t
\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} {\text {Y}}(\ell _K+s,{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1})\le & {} {\text {Y}}(\ell _K+t,{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}),\\ \psi (s) \big (S(K,{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1})+S(-K,{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1})\big )\le & {} \psi (t) \big ( S(K,{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1})+S(-K,{\mathbb {S}}^{n-1})\big ) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}Y(ℓK+s,Sn-1)≤Y(ℓK+t,Sn-1),ψ(s)(S(K,Sn-1)+S(-K,Sn-1))≤ψ(t)(S(K,Sn-1)+S(-K,Sn-1))
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$K\in {\mathcal {K}}^n_{0}$$\end{document}K∈K0n
. Hence, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi $$\end{document}ψ
is an increasing function. By Lemma 6.2, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi \equiv 0$$\end{document}ψ≡0
. Lemma 1.7 implies that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Y}}$$\end{document}Y
is trivial. \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\square $$\end{document}□
Lemma 6.4
Every weakly continuous valuation \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Y}}:{\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)\rightarrow {\mathcal {M}}_e({\mathbb {S}}^{n-1})$$\end{document}Y:Conv(Rn)→Me(Sn-1)
that is \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant of degree 1 and translation invariant is uniquely determined by its indicator growth function.
Proof of Theorem 3
By Lemma 3.3, the map \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Y}}:{\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)\rightarrow {\mathcal {M}}_e({\mathbb {S}}^{n-1})$$\end{document}Y:Conv(Rn)→Me(Sn-1)
defined in (3) is a weakly continuous, decreasing valuation that is \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant of degree 1 and translation invariant.
Conversely, let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Y}}:{\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)\rightarrow {\mathcal {M}}_e({\mathbb {S}}^{n-1})$$\end{document}Y:Conv(Rn)→Me(Sn-1)
be a weakly continuous, monotone valuation that is \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant of degree 1 and translation invariant. Let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta :\mathbb {R}\rightarrow [0,\infty )$$\end{document}ζ:R→[0,∞)
be its indicator growth function. If \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Y}}$$\end{document}Y
is increasing, then Lemma 6.3 shows that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Y}}$$\end{document}Y
is trivial. Hence we may assume that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Y}}$$\end{document}Y
is decreasing. Lemma 6.2 combined with Lemma 1.6 implies that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \in {D}^{n-2}(\mathbb {R})$$\end{document}ζ∈Dn-2(R)
.
Now, for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u=\mathrm {I}_K+t$$\end{document}u=IK+t
with \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$K\in {\mathcal {K}}^n_{0}$$\end{document}K∈K0n
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
we obtain by Lemma 6.1 and by the definition of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$S({\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle }, \cdot )$$\end{document}S(⟨ζ∘u⟩,·)
in Lemma 3.2 that\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} {\text {Y}}(u,\cdot ) = \tfrac{1}{2} \zeta (t) (S(K,\cdot )+S(-K,\cdot ))=S({\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle },\cdot ). \end{aligned}$$\end{document}Y(u,·)=12ζ(t)(S(K,·)+S(-K,·))=S(⟨ζ∘u⟩,·).
By Lemma 3.3,\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} u\mapsto S({\langle {\zeta \circ u} \rangle },\cdot ) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}u↦S(⟨ζ∘u⟩,·)
defines a weakly continuous, decreasing valuation on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}Conv(Rn)
that is \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
contravariant of degree 1 and translation invariant and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta $$\end{document}ζ
is its indicator growth function. Thus Lemma 6.4 completes the proof of the theorem.
\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\mathbf{SL}(\mathbf{n})$$\end{document}SL(n)
covariant Minkowski valuations on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathbf{Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}Conv(Rn)
The operator that appears in Theorem 2 is discussed. It is shown that it is a continuous, monotone, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
covariant and translation invariant Minkowski valuation. Moreover, a geometric interpretation is derived.
We require the following results.
Proof
Fix \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\varepsilon >0$$\end{document}ε>0
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u∈Conv(Rn)
. Let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\rho _{\varepsilon }\in C^{\infty }(\mathbb {R})$$\end{document}ρε∈C∞(R)
denote a standard mollifying kernel such that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\int _{\mathbb {R}^n} \rho _{\varepsilon }(x) \,\mathrm {d}x = 1$$\end{document}∫Rnρε(x)dx=1
, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {supp}}\rho _{\varepsilon } \subseteq B_{\varepsilon }(0)$$\end{document}suppρε⊆Bε(0)
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\rho _{\varepsilon }(x)\ge 0$$\end{document}ρε(x)≥0
for all \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$x\in \mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}x∈Rn
. Write \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\tau _{\varepsilon }$$\end{document}τε
for the translation \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\mapsto t+\varepsilon $$\end{document}t↦t+ε
on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\mathbb {R}$$\end{document}R
and define \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta _\varepsilon (t)$$\end{document}ζε(t)
for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
as\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \zeta _\varepsilon (t)=(\rho _{\varepsilon }\star (\zeta \circ \tau _{\varepsilon }^{-1}))(t)+e^{-t} = \int _{-\varepsilon }^{+\varepsilon } \zeta (t-\varepsilon -s)\rho _{\varepsilon }(s) \,\mathrm {d}s + e^{-t}. \end{aligned}$$\end{document}ζε(t)=(ρε⋆(ζ∘τε-1))(t)+e-t=∫-ε+εζ(t-ε-s)ρε(s)ds+e-t.
As in the proof of Lemma 3.1, it is easy to see that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta _\varepsilon $$\end{document}ζε
is smooth and strictly decreasing and that\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \int _0^{+\infty } \zeta _\varepsilon (t) \,\mathrm {d}t <+\infty . \end{aligned}$$\end{document}∫0+∞ζε(t)dt<+∞.
Moreover, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta _\varepsilon (t)> \zeta (t)\ge 0$$\end{document}ζε(t)>ζ(t)≥0
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
. Hence, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\{\zeta \circ u \ge t\} \subseteq \{\zeta _\varepsilon \circ u \ge t\}$$\end{document}{ζ∘u≥t}⊆{ζε∘u≥t}
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t \ge 0$$\end{document}t≥0
and therefore it suffices to show that\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \big \vert \int _0^{+\infty } h(\{\zeta _\varepsilon \circ u \ge t\},z)\,\mathrm {d}t \big \vert <+\infty \end{aligned}$$\end{document}|∫0+∞h({ζε∘u≥t},z)dt|<+∞
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$z\in {\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}$$\end{document}z∈Sn-1
. By Lemma 1.3, there exist constants \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$a,b\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}a,b∈R
with \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$a>0$$\end{document}a>0
such that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u(x)>v(x)=a|x|+b$$\end{document}u(x)>v(x)=a|x|+b
for all \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$x\in \mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}x∈Rn
. Hence, by substituting \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t = \zeta _\varepsilon (s)$$\end{document}t=ζε(s)
and by integration by parts, we obtain\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \big \vert \int _0^{+\infty } h(\{\zeta _\varepsilon \circ u \ge t\},z) \,\mathrm {d}t \big \vert\le & {} \int _0^{+\infty } h(\{\zeta _\varepsilon \circ v \ge t\},z) \,\mathrm {d}t\\= & {} \tfrac{1}{a} \int _0^{\zeta _\varepsilon (b)} ({\zeta _\varepsilon ^{-1}(t)-b}) \,\mathrm {d}t\\= & {} - \tfrac{1}{a} \int _b^{+\infty } \underbrace{({s-b}) \,\zeta _\varepsilon '(s)}_{<0} \,\mathrm {d}s\\\le & {} - \tfrac{1}{a} \,\underbrace{\liminf _{s\rightarrow +\infty } ({s-b}) \,\zeta _\varepsilon (s)}_{\in [0,+\infty ]} + \tfrac{1}{a} \underbrace{\int _b^{+\infty } \zeta _\varepsilon (s) \,\mathrm {d}s}_{<+\infty } <+\infty , \end{aligned}$$\end{document}|∫0+∞h({ζε∘u≥t},z)dt|≤∫0+∞h({ζε∘v≥t},z)dt=1a∫0ζε(b)(ζε-1(t)-b)dt=-1a∫b+∞(s-b)ζε′(s)⏟<0ds≤-1alim infs→+∞(s-b)ζε(s)⏟∈[0,+∞]+1a∫b+∞ζε(s)ds⏟<+∞<+∞,
which concludes the proof. \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\square $$\end{document}□
Lemma 7.2
(and Definition) For \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \in {D}^{0}(\mathbb {R})$$\end{document}ζ∈D0(R)
, the map \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\mapsto {[ {\zeta \circ u} ]}$$\end{document}u↦[ζ∘u]
from \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}Conv(Rn)
to \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}Kn
, defined for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$z\in {\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}$$\end{document}z∈Sn-1
by\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} h({[ {\zeta \circ u} ]},z)=\int \limits _0^{+\infty } h(\{\zeta \circ u \ge t\},z)\,\mathrm {d}t, \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h([ζ∘u],z)=∫0+∞h({ζ∘u≥t},z)dt,
is a continuous, decreasing, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
covariant Minkowski valuation.
Proof
Let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u,v\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u,v∈Conv(Rn)
be such that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\ge v$$\end{document}u≥v
. Then\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \{\zeta \circ u \ge t\}\subseteq \{\zeta \circ v \ge t\} \end{aligned}$$\end{document}{ζ∘u≥t}⊆{ζ∘v≥t}
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\ge 0$$\end{document}t≥0
and consequently,\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} h(\{\zeta \circ u \ge t\},z) \le h(\{\zeta \circ v \ge t\},z) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h({ζ∘u≥t},z)≤h({ζ∘v≥t},z)
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$z\in {\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}$$\end{document}z∈Sn-1
. Since the integral in the definition of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${[ {\zeta \circ u} ]}$$\end{document}[ζ∘u]
converges by Lemma 7.1, this shows that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\mapsto {[ {\zeta \circ u} ]}$$\end{document}u↦[ζ∘u]
is well-defined and decreasing on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}Conv(Rn)
.
Now, let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u∈Conv(Rn)
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u_k\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}uk∈Conv(Rn)
be such that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {epi-lim}}_{k\rightarrow \infty }u_k=u$$\end{document}epi-limk→∞uk=u
. By Lemma 1.1, the sets \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\{u_k\le t\}$$\end{document}{uk≤t}
converge in the Hausdorff metric to the set \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\{u\le t\}$$\end{document}{u≤t}
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\ne \min _{x\in \mathbb {R}^n} u(x)$$\end{document}t≠minx∈Rnu(x)
, which is equivalent to the convergence \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\{\zeta \circ u_k \ge t\}\rightarrow \{\zeta \circ u \ge t\}$$\end{document}{ζ∘uk≥t}→{ζ∘u≥t}
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\ne \max _{x\in \mathbb {R}^n}\zeta (u(x))$$\end{document}t≠maxx∈Rnζ(u(x))
. By Lemma 1.4, there exist constants \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$a,b\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}a,b∈R
with \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$a>0$$\end{document}a>0
such that for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$k\in \mathbb {N}$$\end{document}k∈N
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$x\in \mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}x∈Rn
\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} u_k(x)>v(x)=a|x|+b \end{aligned}$$\end{document}uk(x)>v(x)=a|x|+b
and therefore \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta (u_k(x)) < \zeta (v(x))$$\end{document}ζ(uk(x))<ζ(v(x))
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$x\in \mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}x∈Rn
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$k\in \mathbb {N}$$\end{document}k∈N
and hence also\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \vert h(\{\zeta \circ u_k \ge t\},z) \vert \le h(\{\zeta \circ v \ge t\},z) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}|h({ζ∘uk≥t},z)|≤h({ζ∘v≥t},z)
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\ge 0, k\in \mathbb {N}$$\end{document}t≥0,k∈N
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$z\in {\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}$$\end{document}z∈Sn-1
where we have used the symmetry of v. By Lemma 7.1, we can apply the dominated convergence theorem, which shows that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\mapsto {[ {\zeta \circ u} ]}$$\end{document}u↦[ζ∘u]
is continuous.
Finally, since\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} u\mapsto \{\zeta \circ u \ge t\} \end{aligned}$$\end{document}u↦{ζ∘u≥t}
defines an \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
covariant Minkowski valuation for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t> 0$$\end{document}t>0
, it is easy to see that also \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\mapsto {[ {\zeta \circ u} ]}$$\end{document}u↦[ζ∘u]
has these properties. \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\square $$\end{document}□
Let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$f=\zeta \circ u$$\end{document}f=ζ∘u
with \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \in {D}^{0}(\mathbb {R})$$\end{document}ζ∈D0(R)
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u∈Conv(Rn)
. Write E(z) for the linear span of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$z\in {\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}$$\end{document}z∈Sn-1
. By the definition of the level set body, the difference body, the projection of a quasi-concave function (9), and (10), we have\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} h({\text {D}}\,{[ {f} ]}, z)= & {} h({[ {f} ]}, z) + h(-{[ {f} ]}, z)\\= & {} \int _0^{+\infty } h(\{f\ge t\},z) +h(-\{f\ge t\},z) \,\mathrm {d}t\\= & {} \int _0^{+\infty } h({\text {D}}\,\{f\ge t\},z) \,\mathrm {d}t\\= & {} \int _0^{+\infty } V_1({\text {proj}}_{E(z)} \{f\ge t\})\,\mathrm {d}t\\= & {} V_1({\text {proj}}_{E(z)} f). \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h(D[f],z)=h([f],z)+h(-[f],z)=∫0+∞h({f≥t},z)+h(-{f≥t},z)dt=∫0+∞h(D{f≥t},z)dt=∫0+∞V1(projE(z){f≥t})dt=V1(projE(z)f).
This corresponds to the geometric interpretation of the projection body from (23).
Proof
For every translation \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\tau $$\end{document}τ
on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\mathbb {R}^n$$\end{document}Rn
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u∈Conv(Rn)
, we have\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} h({\text {D}}\,{[ {\zeta \circ u\circ \tau ^{-1}} ]}, z)= & {} \int \limits _0^{+\infty } h({\text {D}}\,\{\zeta \circ u\circ \tau ^{-1}\ge t,z\}\,\mathrm {d}t \\= & {} \int \limits _0^{+\infty } h({\text {D}}\,\{\zeta \circ u\ge t,z\}\,\mathrm {d}t= h({\text {D}}\,{[ {\zeta \circ u} ]}, z), \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h(D[ζ∘u∘τ-1],z)=∫0+∞h(D{ζ∘u∘τ-1≥t,z}dt=∫0+∞h(D{ζ∘u≥t,z}dt=h(D[ζ∘u],z),
since the difference body operator is translation invariant. The further properties follow immediately from the properties of the level set body proved in Lemma 7.2. \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\square $$\end{document}□
Classification of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
covariant Minkowski valuations
The aim of this section is to prove Theorem 2. Let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$n\ge 3$$\end{document}n≥3
.
Lemma 8.1
If \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\,{\text {Z}}\,:{\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)\rightarrow {\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}Z:Conv(Rn)→Kn
is a continuous, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
covariant Minkowski valuation, then there exist continuous functions \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi _1,\psi _2,\psi _3:\mathbb {R}\rightarrow [0,\infty )$$\end{document}ψ1,ψ2,ψ3:R→[0,∞)
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi _4:\mathbb {R}\rightarrow \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}ψ4:R→R
such that\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} {\text {Z}}\,(\ell _K+t)=\psi _1(t)K+\psi _2(t)(-K)+\psi _3(t){\mathrm{M}\,}K + \psi _4(t) {\text {m}}(K) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}Z(ℓK+t)=ψ1(t)K+ψ2(t)(-K)+ψ3(t)MK+ψ4(t)m(K)
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$K\in {\mathcal {K}}^n_{0}$$\end{document}K∈K0n
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
. If \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\,{\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
is also translation invariant, then there exists a continuous function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta :\mathbb {R}\rightarrow [0,\infty )$$\end{document}ζ:R→[0,∞)
such that\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} {\text {Z}}\,(\mathrm {I}_K+t)=\zeta (t) {\text {D}}\,K \end{aligned}$$\end{document}Z(IK+t)=ζ(t)DK
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$K\in {\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}K∈Kn
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
.
Proof
For \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
, define \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,_t:{\mathcal {K}}^n_{0}\rightarrow {\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}Zt:K0n→Kn
as \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,_tK={\text {Z}}\,(\ell _K+t)$$\end{document}ZtK=Z(ℓK+t)
. It is easy to see, that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$Z_t$$\end{document}Zt
defines a continuous, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
covariant Minkowski valuation on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathcal {K}}^n_{0}$$\end{document}K0n
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
. Therefore, by Theorem 2.4, for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
there exist constants \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$c_{1,t},c_{2,t},c_{3,t}\ge 0$$\end{document}c1,t,c2,t,c3,t≥0
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$c_{4,t}\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}c4,t∈R
such that\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} {\text {Z}}\,(\ell _K+t)={\text {Z}}\,_t K=c_{1,t}K+c_{2,t}(-K)+c_{3,t} {\mathrm{M}\,}K + c_{4,t} {\text {m}}(K) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}Z(ℓK+t)=ZtK=c1,tK+c2,t(-K)+c3,tMK+c4,tm(K)
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$K\in {\mathcal {K}}^n_{0}$$\end{document}K∈K0n
. This defines functions \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi _i(t)=c_{i,t}$$\end{document}ψi(t)=ci,t
for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$1\le i \le 4$$\end{document}1≤i≤4
. By the continuity of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
,\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} t\mapsto h({\text {Z}}\,(\ell _{T_s}+t),e_1)=s \psi _1(t) + \frac{s^2}{(n+1)!}(\psi _3(t)+\psi _4(t)) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}t↦h(Z(ℓTs+t),e1)=sψ1(t)+s2(n+1)!(ψ3(t)+ψ4(t))
is continuous for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$s>0$$\end{document}s>0
, where \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$T_s$$\end{document}Ts
is defined as in Lemma 2.3. Setting \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$s=1$$\end{document}s=1
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$s=2$$\end{document}s=2
shows that\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} t\mapsto \psi _1(t)+\frac{1}{(n+1)!}(\psi _3(t)+\psi _4(t)), \end{aligned}$$\end{document}t↦ψ1(t)+1(n+1)!(ψ3(t)+ψ4(t)),
\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} t\mapsto 2\psi _1(t)+\frac{4}{(n+1)!}(\psi _3(t)+\psi _4(t)) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}t↦2ψ1(t)+4(n+1)!(ψ3(t)+ψ4(t))
are continuous functions. Hence \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi _3+\psi _4$$\end{document}ψ3+ψ4
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi _1$$\end{document}ψ1
are continuous functions. The continuity of the map \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\mapsto h({\text {Z}}\,(\ell _{T_s}+t),-e_1)$$\end{document}t↦h(Z(ℓTs+t),-e1)
shows that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi _3-\psi _4$$\end{document}ψ3-ψ4
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi _2$$\end{document}ψ2
are continuous. Hence, also \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi _3$$\end{document}ψ3
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi _4$$\end{document}ψ4
are continuous functions.
Similarly, if \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
is also translation invariant, we consider \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Y}}_t(K)={\text {Z}}\,(\mathrm {I}_K+t)$$\end{document}Yt(K)=Z(IK+t)
, which defines a continuous, translation invariant and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
covariant Minkowski valuation on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}Kn
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
. Therefore, by Theorem 2.5, there exists a non-negative constant \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$d_t$$\end{document}dt
such that\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} {\text {Z}}\,(\mathrm {I}_K+t)={\text {Y}}_t(K)=d_t {\text {D}}\,K \end{aligned}$$\end{document}Z(IK+t)=Yt(K)=dtDK
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$K\in {\mathcal {K}}^n_{0}$$\end{document}K∈K0n
. This defines a function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta (t)=d_t$$\end{document}ζ(t)=dt
, which is continuous due to the continuity of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
. \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\square $$\end{document}□
Lemma 8.2
If \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\,{\text {Z}}\,:{\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)\rightarrow {\mathcal {K}}^n$$\end{document}Z:Conv(Rn)→Kn
is a continuous, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
covariant Minkowski valuation, then, for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$e\in {\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}$$\end{document}e∈Sn-1
,\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} h({\text {Z}}\,(v),e)=0 \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h(Z(v),e)=0
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$v\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}v∈Conv(Rn)
such that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {dom}}v$$\end{document}domv
lies in an affine subspace orthogonal to e. Moreover, if \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\vartheta $$\end{document}ϑ
is the orthogonal reflection at \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$e^\bot $$\end{document}e⊥
, then\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} h({\text {Z}}\,(u),e)=h({\text {Z}}\,(u\circ \vartheta ^{-1}),-e) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h(Z(u),e)=h(Z(u∘ϑ-1),-e)
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u∈Conv(Rn)
.
Proof
By Lemma 8.1, we have \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$h({\text {Z}}\,(\ell _K),e)=0$$\end{document}h(Z(ℓK),e)=0
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$K\in {\mathcal {K}}^n_{0}$$\end{document}K∈K0n
such that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$K\subset e^\bot $$\end{document}K⊂e⊥
. Hence, Lemma 1.7 implies that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$h({\text {Z}}\,(v),e)=0$$\end{document}h(Z(v),e)=0
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}u∈Conv(Rn)
such that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {dom}}v \subset e^\bot $$\end{document}domv⊂e⊥
. By the translation invariance of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
, this also holds for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$v\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}v∈Conv(Rn)
whose \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {dom}}v$$\end{document}domv
lies in an affine subspace orthogonal to e.
Similarly, for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$K\in {\mathcal {K}}^n_{0}$$\end{document}K∈K0n
, we have \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$h(K,e)=h(\vartheta K,-e)$$\end{document}h(K,e)=h(ϑK,-e)
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$h(-K,e)=h(-\vartheta K,-e)$$\end{document}h(-K,e)=h(-ϑK,-e)
while \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$h({\text {m}}(K),e)=h({\text {m}}(\vartheta K),-e)$$\end{document}h(m(K),e)=h(m(ϑK),-e)
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$h({\mathrm{M}\,}K,e)=h({\mathrm{M}\,}(\vartheta K),-e)$$\end{document}h(MK,e)=h(M(ϑK),-e)
. Hence Lemma 8.1 implies that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$h({\text {Z}}\,(\ell _K),e)=h({\text {Z}}\,(\ell _K\circ \vartheta ^{-1}),-e)$$\end{document}h(Z(ℓK),e)=h(Z(ℓK∘ϑ-1),-e)
. The claim follows again from Lemma 1.7. \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\square $$\end{document}□
In the proof of the next lemma, we use the following classical result due to H.A. Schwarz (cf. [40, p. 37]). Suppose a real valued function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi $$\end{document}ψ
is defined and continuous on the closed interval I. If\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \lim _{h\rightarrow 0} \frac{\psi (t+h)-2\psi (t)+\psi (t-h)}{h^2}=0 \end{aligned}$$\end{document}limh→0ψ(t+h)-2ψ(t)+ψ(t-h)h2=0
everywhere in the interior of I, then \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi $$\end{document}ψ
is an affine function.
Proof
For a closed interval I in the span of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$e_1$$\end{document}e1
, let the function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u_I\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}uI∈Conv(Rn)
be defined by\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \{u_I <0\}=\emptyset ,\quad \{u_I \le s\} = I + {\text {conv}}\{0, s\, e_2, \ldots , s \, e_n\} \end{aligned}$$\end{document}{uI<0}=∅,{uI≤s}=I+conv{0,se2,…,sen}
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$s\ge 0$$\end{document}s≥0
. By the properties of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
it is easy to see that the map \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$I\mapsto h({\text {Z}}\,(u_I+t),e_1)$$\end{document}I↦h(Z(uI+t),e1)
is a real valued, continuous, translation invariant valuation on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\mathcal {K}}^1$$\end{document}K1
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
. Hence, it is easy to see that there exist functions \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta _0,\zeta _1:\mathbb {R}\rightarrow \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}ζ0,ζ1:R→R
such that27\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} h({\text {Z}}\,(u_I+t),e_1)=\zeta _0(t)+\zeta _1(t)V_1(I) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h(Z(uI+t),e1)=ζ0(t)+ζ1(t)V1(I)
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$I\in {\mathcal {K}}^1$$\end{document}I∈K1
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
(see, for example, [24, p. 39]). Note, that by the continuity of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
, the functions \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta _0$$\end{document}ζ0
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta _1$$\end{document}ζ1
are continuous.
For \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$r,h>0$$\end{document}r,h>0
, let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$T_{r/ h} ={\text {conv}}\{0, \frac{r}{h}\,e_1,e_2, \dots , e_n\}$$\end{document}Tr/h=conv{0,rhe1,e2,⋯,en}
. Define the function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u_r^h$$\end{document}urh
by\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \{u_r^h \le s\} = \{\ell _{T_{r/h}} \le s\} \cap \{x_1 \le r \} \end{aligned}$$\end{document}{urh≤s}={ℓTr/h≤s}∩{x1≤r}
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$s\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}s∈R
. It is easy to see that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u_r^h \in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}urh∈Conv(Rn)
and that\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned}&\{u_r^h \le s\} \cup \{\ell _{T_{r/h}}\circ \tau _r^{-1} + h \le s \} = \{\ell _{T_{r/h}} \le s\},\\&\{u_r^h \le s\} \cap \{\ell _{T_{r/h}}\circ \tau _r^{-1} + h \le s \} \subset \{x_1 = r\} \end{aligned}$$\end{document}{urh≤s}∪{ℓTr/h∘τr-1+h≤s}={ℓTr/h≤s},{urh≤s}∩{ℓTr/h∘τr-1+h≤s}⊂{x1=r}
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$s\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}s∈R
, where \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\tau _r$$\end{document}τr
is the translation \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$x\mapsto x+ r e_1$$\end{document}x↦x+re1
. By translation invariance, the valuation property and Lemma 8.2, this gives\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} h({\text {Z}}\,(u_r^h+t),e_1)=h({\text {Z}}\,(\ell _{T_{r/h}}+t),e_1)-h({\text {Z}}\,(\ell _{T_{r/h}}+t+h),e_1) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h(Z(urh+t),e1)=h(Z(ℓTr/h+t),e1)-h(Z(ℓTr/h+t+h),e1)
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
. Note, that by Lemma 1.2 we have \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u_r^h {\mathop {\longrightarrow }\limits ^{epi}}u_{[0,r]}$$\end{document}urh⟶epiu[0,r]
as \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$h\rightarrow 0$$\end{document}h→0
. Hence, using the continuity of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
, Lemma 8.1 and Lemma 2.3, we obtain\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned}&h({\text {Z}}\,(u_{[0,r]}+t),e_1) \\&\quad = \lim _{h\rightarrow 0^+} h({\text {Z}}\,(u_r^h+t),e_1)\\&\quad = \lim _{h\rightarrow 0^+} \Big (r\, \frac{\psi _1(t)-\psi _1(t+h)}{h} + \frac{r^2}{(n+1)!}\frac{(\psi _3+\psi _4)(t)-(\psi _3+\psi _4)(t+h)}{h^2} \Big ) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h(Z(u[0,r]+t),e1)=limh→0+h(Z(urh+t),e1)=limh→0+(rψ1(t)-ψ1(t+h)h+r2(n+1)!(ψ3+ψ4)(t)-(ψ3+ψ4)(t+h)h2)
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$r>0$$\end{document}r>0
. Comparison with (27) now gives28\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \zeta _1(t) = \lim _{h\rightarrow 0^+} \frac{\psi _1(t)-\psi _1(t+h)}{h},\quad 0 = \lim _{h\rightarrow 0^+} \frac{(\psi _3+\psi _4)(t)-(\psi _3+\psi _4)(t+h)}{h^2}.\qquad \end{aligned}$$\end{document}ζ1(t)=limh→0+ψ1(t)-ψ1(t+h)h,0=limh→0+(ψ3+ψ4)(t)-(ψ3+ψ4)(t+h)h2.
Similarly, since also \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u_r^h-h {\mathop {\longrightarrow }\limits ^{epi}}u_{[0,r]}$$\end{document}urh-h⟶epiu[0,r]
as \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$h\rightarrow 0$$\end{document}h→0
, we obtain\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \zeta _1(t) = \lim _{h\rightarrow 0^+} \frac{\psi _1(t-h)-\psi _1(t)}{h},\quad 0 = \lim _{h\rightarrow 0^+} \frac{(\psi _3+\psi _4)(t-h)-(\psi _3+\psi _4)(t)}{h^2}. \end{aligned}$$\end{document}ζ1(t)=limh→0+ψ1(t-h)-ψ1(t)h,0=limh→0+(ψ3+ψ4)(t-h)-(ψ3+ψ4)(t)h2.
Hence, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi _1$$\end{document}ψ1
is continuously differentiable with \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$-\psi _1'= \zeta _1$$\end{document}-ψ1′=ζ1
. In addition, by H.A. Schwarz’s result, the function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi _3+\psi _4$$\end{document}ψ3+ψ4
is linear and hence by (28) it must be constant.
Now, let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\vartheta $$\end{document}ϑ
denote the reflection at \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\{x_1=0\}=e_1^\bot $$\end{document}{x1=0}=e1⊥
. Lemma 8.2 and the translation invariance of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
give\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} h({\text {Z}}\,(u_{[0,r]}+t),e_1)&= h({\text {Z}}\,(u_{[0,r]} \circ \vartheta ^{-1} +t), -e_1)\\&= h({\text {Z}}\,(u_{[-r,0]}+t),-e_1) = h({\text {Z}}\,(u_{[0,r]}+t),-e_1) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h(Z(u[0,r]+t),e1)=h(Z(u[0,r]∘ϑ-1+t),-e1)=h(Z(u[-r,0]+t),-e1)=h(Z(u[0,r]+t),-e1)
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
. Repeating the arguments from above, but evaluating at \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$-e_1$$\end{document}-e1
, shows that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$-\psi _2'=\zeta _1$$\end{document}-ψ2′=ζ1
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi _3-\psi _4$$\end{document}ψ3-ψ4
is constant. Hence, both \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi _3$$\end{document}ψ3
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi _4$$\end{document}ψ4
are constant.\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\square $$\end{document}□
Proof
Let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi _1,\ldots ,\psi _4$$\end{document}ψ1,…,ψ4
be as in Lemma 8.1. By Lemma 8.3, there exist constants \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$c_3,c_4$$\end{document}c3,c4
such that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi _3(t)\equiv c_3$$\end{document}ψ3(t)≡c3
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi _4(t)\equiv c_4$$\end{document}ψ4(t)≡c4
. Moreover, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi _1$$\end{document}ψ1
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi _2$$\end{document}ψ2
are non-negative and only differ by a constant. Hence, it suffices to show that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\lim _{t\rightarrow +\infty } \psi _1(t)=\lim _{t\rightarrow +\infty } \psi _2(t)=0$$\end{document}limt→+∞ψ1(t)=limt→+∞ψ2(t)=0
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$c_3=c_4=0$$\end{document}c3=c4=0
. To show this, let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$r,b>0$$\end{document}r,b>0
and let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$v_r^b\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}vrb∈Conv(Rn)
be defined by \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {epi}}v_r^b = {\text {epi}}\ell _{T_r} \cap \{x_1\le b\}$$\end{document}epivrb=epiℓTr∩{x1≤b}
, where \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$T_r$$\end{document}Tr
is defined as in Lemma 2.3. Note, that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {epi-lim}}_{b\rightarrow +\infty }v_r^b =\ell _{T_r}$$\end{document}epi-limb→+∞vrb=ℓTr
. Let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\tau _b$$\end{document}τb
be the translation \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$x\mapsto x+be_1$$\end{document}x↦x+be1
and set \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\ell _r^b:= \ell _{T_r}\circ \tau _b^{-1}+\tfrac{b}{r}$$\end{document}ℓrb:=ℓTr∘τb-1+br
. Then\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} v_r^b \mathbin {\wedge }\ell _r^b = \ell _{T_r},\qquad {\text {dom}}(v_r^b \vee \ell _r^b) \subset \{x_1=b\}. \end{aligned}$$\end{document}vrb∧ℓrb=ℓTr,dom(vrb∨ℓrb)⊂{x1=b}.
Thus, by the valuation property and Lemma 8.2, we obtain\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} h({\text {Z}}\,(v_r^b),e_1)=h({\text {Z}}\,(\ell _{T_r}),e_1)-h({\text {Z}}\,(\ell _r^b),e_1). \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h(Z(vrb),e1)=h(Z(ℓTr),e1)-h(Z(ℓrb),e1).
Using the translation invariance and continuity of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
now gives\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} r \psi _1(0) + r^2 \frac{c_3+c_4}{(n+1)!}=h({\text {Z}}\,(\ell _{T_r}),e_1) = \lim _{b\rightarrow +\infty } h({\text {Z}}\,(v_r^b),e_1) = \lim _{b\rightarrow +\infty } r (\psi _1(0)-\psi _1(\tfrac{b}{r})) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}rψ1(0)+r2c3+c4(n+1)!=h(Z(ℓTr),e1)=limb→+∞h(Z(vrb),e1)=limb→+∞r(ψ1(0)-ψ1(br))
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$r >0$$\end{document}r>0
. Hence, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\lim _{t\rightarrow +\infty } \psi _1(t)=0$$\end{document}limt→+∞ψ1(t)=0
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$c_3+c_4=0$$\end{document}c3+c4=0
. Similarly, evaluating the support functions at \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$-e_1$$\end{document}-e1
gives \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\lim _{t\rightarrow +\infty } \psi _2(t)=0$$\end{document}limt→+∞ψ2(t)=0
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$c_3-c_4=0$$\end{document}c3-c4=0
. Consequently, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$c_3=c_4=0$$\end{document}c3=c4=0
. \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\square $$\end{document}□
By Lemma 1.7, we obtain the following result as an immediate corollary of the last result.
Proof
Let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta $$\end{document}ζ
be as in Lemma 8.1. Since \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \ge 0$$\end{document}ζ≥0
, it suffices to show that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta =-\psi '$$\end{document}ζ=-ψ′
. Therefore, for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$h>0$$\end{document}h>0
let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u_h\in {\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}uh∈Conv(Rn)
be defined by \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {epi}}u_h = {\text {epi}}\ell _{[0,e_1/h]} \cap \{x_1 \le 1\}$$\end{document}epiuh=epiℓ[0,e1/h]∩{x1≤1}
. By Lemma 1.2, we have \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {epi-lim}}_{h\rightarrow 0} u_h = \mathrm {I}_{[0,e_1]}$$\end{document}epi-limh→0uh=I[0,e1]
. Denote by \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\tau $$\end{document}τ
the translation \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$x\mapsto x+e_1$$\end{document}x↦x+e1
and define \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\ell _h=\ell _{[0,e_1/h]}\circ \tau ^{-1}+h$$\end{document}ℓh=ℓ[0,e1/h]∘τ-1+h
. Then,\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} u_h \mathbin {\wedge }\ell _h = \ell _{[0,e_1/h]},\qquad u_h \vee \ell _h = \mathrm {I}_{\{e_1\}}+h. \end{aligned}$$\end{document}uh∧ℓh=ℓ[0,e1/h],uh∨ℓh=I{e1}+h.
Hence, by the properties of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
and the definitions of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi $$\end{document}ψ
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta $$\end{document}ζ
this gives\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \zeta (t)=h({\text {Z}}\,(\mathrm {I}_{[0,e_1]}+t),e_1)=\lim _{h\rightarrow 0^+} h({\text {Z}}\,(u_h+t),e_1) = \lim _{h\rightarrow 0^+} \frac{\psi (t)-\psi (t+h)}{h} \end{aligned}$$\end{document}ζ(t)=h(Z(I[0,e1]+t),e1)=limh→0+h(Z(uh+t),e1)=limh→0+ψ(t)-ψ(t+h)h
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
. The claim follows, since \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi $$\end{document}ψ
is differentiable.\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\square $$\end{document}□
The function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta =-\psi '$$\end{document}ζ=-ψ′
appearing in the above Lemma is called the indicator growth function of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
. Lemma 8.3 shows that the indicator growth function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta $$\end{document}ζ
of a continuous, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
covariant and translation invariant Minkowski valuation \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
determines its cone growth function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi $$\end{document}ψ
up to a constant. Since \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\lim _{t\rightarrow \infty } \psi (t)=0$$\end{document}limt→∞ψ(t)=0
, the constant is also determined by \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta $$\end{document}ζ
. Thus \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\psi $$\end{document}ψ
is completely determined by the indicator growth function of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
and Lemma 1.7 implies the following result.
Lemma 8.7
Every continuous, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
covariant, translation invariant Minkowski valuation on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}Conv(Rn)
is uniquely determined by its indicator growth function.
Proof of Theorem 2
By Lemma 7.3, for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \in {D}^{0}(\mathbb {R})$$\end{document}ζ∈D0(R)
, the operator \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u\mapsto {\text {D}}\,{[ {\zeta \circ u} ]}$$\end{document}u↦D[ζ∘u]
defines a continuous, decreasing, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
covariant and translation invariant Minkowski valuation on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}Conv(Rn)
.
Conversely, let now a continuous, monotone, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
covariant and translation invariant Minkowski valuation \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
be given and let \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta $$\end{document}ζ
be its indicator growth function. Lemma 8.5 implies that we may assume that \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
is decreasing. By Lemma 8.7, the valuation \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
is uniquely determined by \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta $$\end{document}ζ
. For \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$P=[0,e_1]\in {\mathcal {P}}^n_{0}$$\end{document}P=[0,e1]∈P0n
, we have\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} h({\text {Z}}\,(\mathrm {I}_{P}+t),e_1)=\zeta (t)\,h({\text {D}}\,P,e_1)=\zeta (t) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h(Z(IP+t),e1)=ζ(t)h(DP,e1)=ζ(t)
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
. Since \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Z}}\,$$\end{document}Z
is decreasing, also \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta $$\end{document}ζ
is decreasing. Since \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta =-\psi '$$\end{document}ζ=-ψ′
, it follows from Lemma 8.3 that\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \int _0^\infty \zeta (t)=\psi (0)- \lim _{t\rightarrow \infty } \psi (t)=\psi (0). \end{aligned}$$\end{document}∫0∞ζ(t)=ψ(0)-limt→∞ψ(t)=ψ(0).
Thus \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta \in {D}^{0}(\mathbb {R})$$\end{document}ζ∈D0(R)
.
For \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$u=\mathrm {I}_P+t$$\end{document}u=IP+t
with arbitrary \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$P\in {\mathcal {P}}^n_{0}$$\end{document}P∈P0n
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
, we have\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} h({\text {D}}\,{[ {\zeta \circ u} ]},z) = \int _0^{+\infty } h({\text {D}}\,\{\zeta \circ u\ge s\},z) \,\mathrm {d}s = \zeta (t)\, h({\text {D}}\,P,z) \end{aligned}$$\end{document}h(D[ζ∘u],z)=∫0+∞h(D{ζ∘u≥s},z)ds=ζ(t)h(DP,z)
for every \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$z\in {\mathbb {S}}^{n-1}$$\end{document}z∈Sn-1
. Hence \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {D}}\,{[ {\zeta \circ (\mathrm {I}_P+t)} ]}= \zeta (t) {\text {D}}\,P$$\end{document}D[ζ∘(IP+t)]=ζ(t)DP
for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$P\in {\mathcal {P}}_0^n$$\end{document}P∈P0n
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$t\in \mathbb {R}$$\end{document}t∈R
. By Lemma 7.3,\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} u\mapsto {\text {D}}\,{[ {\zeta \circ u} ]} \end{aligned}$$\end{document}u↦D[ζ∘u]
defines a continuous, decreasing, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {SL}}(n)$$\end{document}SL(n)
covariant and translation invariant Minkowski valuation on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$${\text {Conv}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$$\end{document}Conv(Rn)
and \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\zeta $$\end{document}ζ
is its indicator growth function. Thus Lemma 8.7 completes the proof of the theorem.