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Mathematics
CLC number: O186
The Existence of Solution to the Even Orlicz Chord Minkowski Problem
偶Orlicz弦Minkowski问题解的存在性
1 School of Mathematical Sciences, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, Jiangsu, China
2 Department of Mathematics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
† Corresponding author. E-mail: jinhailin17@163.com
Received:
16
May
2024
Chord measures are newly discovered translation-invariant geometric measures of convex bodies in
by Lutwak-Xi-Yang-Zhang (Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, 2024), which is an extension of the surface area measure. The Minkowski problems for chord measures was considered by Lutwak-Xi-Yang-Zhang. In this paper, we use variational method to solve the even Orlicz chord Minkowski problem. The obtained results are an extension of the even Orlicz Minkowski problem from Haberl-Lutwak-Yang-Zhang (Advances in Mathematics, 2010 ).
摘要
2024年,Lutwak等人引入凸体的弦测度 (Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, 2024)。经典的表面积测度是一种特殊的弦测度。关于弦测度的Minkowski问题是凸几何中新的研究热点。本文采用变分方法研究Orlicz情形下偶弦测度的Minkowski问题解的存在性,所得到的结果是Haberl-Lutwak-Yang-Zhang (Advances in Mathematics, 2010) 关于偶表面积测度的Orlicz Minkowski问题的推广。
Key words: chord integral / chord measure / Minkowski problem
关键字 : 弦积分 / 弦测度 / Minkowski问题
Cite this article: CHEN Qiuyue, JIN Hailin, LAI Dandan, et al. The Existence of Solution to the Even Orlicz Chord Minkowski Problem[J]. Wuhan Univ J of Nat Sci, 2025, 30(6): 529-534.
Biography: CHEN Qiuyue, female, Master candidate, research direction: convex geometric analysis. E-mail: chenqiuyue26@163.com
Foundation item: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (12071277, 12071334)
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0 Introduction
The classical Brunn-Minkowski theory is the core of convex geometry analysis. The classical Minkowski problem asks for the existence, uniqueness, and regularity of a convex body whose surface area measure is equal to a pre-given Borel measure. Lutwak[1-2] developed the classical Brunn-Minkowski theory into
-Brunn-Minkowski theory. After that, the
Minkowski problem and related researches can be found in Refs.[3-14].
The
Minkowski problem has been extended to the even Orlicz Minkowski problem by Habrel et al [15] with a series of papers on the Orlicz Minkowski theory [16-17]. The Orlicz Minkowski problem and related topics can be found in the Refs.[18-29].
Recently, Lutwak et al[30] introduced a new family of geometric measures by studying a variational formula on the geometric invariants of convex body integrals, which called chord integrals. Accordingly, the
chord Minkowski problem was considered. Xi et al [31] solved the
chord Minkowski problem when
,
and the symmetric case of
. Guo et al[32] solved the
chord Minkowski problem for
without symmetric assumptions. Li[33] solved the discrete
chord Minkowski problem in the condition of
and
, and as for general Borel measure, Li also gave a proof but need
and
. Hu et al [34] used flow methods to get regularity of the chord log-Minkowski problem of
. In addition, Hu et al[35] also found the smooth origin-symmetric solution for
chord Minkowski problem in the case of
by using same flow method[34]. Zhao et al [36] generalized the
chord Minkowski problem and sloved the existence of smooth solutions to the Orlicz chord Minkowski problem.
In this paper, we use variational method to solve the even Orlicz chord Minkowski problem.
Let
be the collection of convex bodies (compact convex sets with nonempty interior) in
. For
, the chord integral
of
is defined as follows:
where
denotes the length of the chord
, and the integration is with respect to the Haar measure on the Grassmannian
of lines in
.
Chord integrals contain volume
and surface area
as two important special cases:
where
is the volume enclosed by the unit sphere
.
We can see in Ref.[15] that the differential of
defines a finite Borel measure
on
. Precisely, for convex bodies
and
in
, we have
where
is called the q-th chord measure of K and
is the support function of
. The cases of
of this formula are classical, which are the variational formulas of surface area and volume.
where
and
are respecting the
-th order and
-th order area measure of
.
The Orlicz chord Minkowski problem was stated in Ref.[36] by the following form:
The Orlicz chord Minkowski problem: Suppose
is a continuous decreasing function. If
is an finite Borel measure on
which is not concentrated on a great subsphere of
, what are the necessary and sufficient conditions on
, such that there exist a convex body
in
and a positive constant
so that
Remark 1 When
, the Orlicz chord Minkowski problem is reduce to the
chord Minkowski problem[30-31]. When
, the Orlicz chord Minkowski problem is reduced to the Orlicz Minkowski problem[15].
In this paper, we consider the even Orlicz chord Minkowski problem. Concretely, we prove the following theorem.
Theorem 1 Let
and
. Suppose
is a continuous decreasing function. If
is an even Borel measure on
that is not concentrated on a great subsphere of
, then there exists a symmetric, convex body
such that
with 
This paper is organized as follows. In Section 1, we introduce some basic facts about convex bodies. In Section 2, we give some lemmas needed for the proof of theorems in Section 3. In Section 3, we prove the main theorem.
1 Preliminaries
In this section, we will give some relative notations and facts about convex bodies. And for more details, see Refs.[37-39].
Let
be n-dimensional Euclidean space. The standard inner product in
is denoted by
. We write
for the boundary of the Euclidean unit ball
in
.
A convex body is a compact convex subset of
with non-empty interior. The set of convex bodies in
containing the origin in their interiors is denoted by
. The set of convex bodies in
that are symmetric about the origin will be denoted by
.
A compact, convex set
is uniquely determined by its support function
, where
, for each
. For example, the support function of the line segment
joining the points
is given by
It is trivial that for the support function of the dilate
of a compact, convex
, we have
Note that support functions are positively homogeneous of degree 1 and subadditive. It follows immediately from the definition of support functions that for compact, convex
,
,
Consequently, the support function of a body
is bounded from above and below by positive reals.
The set of continuous functions on the sphere
will be denoted by
and will always be viewed as equipped with the max-norm metric:
for
,
. The subspace of positive continuous functions will be denoted by
and the subspace of
consisting of only the even functions will be denoted by
.
For
, the Wulff-shape
is a compact convex set defined by
Clearly,
.
The set
will be viewed as equipped with the Hausdorff metric. If a sequence
of bodies in
and a body
, we say that
provided
If
, a boundary point
has
as an outer normal. A boundary point is said to be singular if it has more than one unit normal vector. It is well known that the set of singular boundary points of a convex body has
-measure equal to 0.
The inverse spherical image of a convex body
at
which is a Borel set, denoted by
, is the set of all boundary points of
which have an outer unit normal belonging to the set
.
which is called the Aleksandrov-Fenchel-Jensen surface area measure of
is defined by
, for each Borel set
, associated with each convex body
is a Borel measure on
.
2 Some Lemmas
This section mainly gives some lemmas needed for the proof in Section 3. First, we give the properties of a simple functional.
Lemma 1[15] Suppose
is a continuous decreasing function. Define the function
by
For
and
, we have
and
Moreover, the derivative of
is increasing and the function
is convex.
The following lemma is a slight variant of a standard result about differentiability under an integral sign.
Lemma 2[15] Let
be continuously differentiable,
be an open interval, and
be a continuous function such that the partial derivative
exists for all
. If
is bounded and h is bounded from above and from below by positive numbers, then the function
defined by
for
, is differentiable on
and
Moreover, if
is continuous with respect to
, then
is continuous.
To solve the maximization problem, we use the variational formula in the following lemma.
Lemma 3[30] Let
. Suppose that
is continuous and
is a family of continuous functions given as follows:
for each
with
. Here,
and
tends to 0 uniformly on
as
. Let
be the Wulff-shape generated by
and
be the Wulff-shape generated by
. Then,
3 The Even Orlicz Chord Minkowski Problem
Let
and
. Suppose
is a continuous decreasing function. Define the function
by
For each non-zero even finite Borel measure
on
, define the functional
by
The following theorem shows that if the maximization can be obtained, the even Orlicz chord Minkowski problem has a solution.
Theorem 2 Let
and
be a nonzero even finite Borel measure on
that is not concentrated on a great subsphere of
. If the maximization problem
has a solution
, then there exists
such that 
Proof Define
for
,
for
. For sufficiently small
, the family
. By Lemma 2 and Lemma 3, the function
is differentiable at 0. By the fact that
is a maximizer,
Since
is arbitrary and using the fact that
almost everywhere, for
, we have
Let
, we have
where
.
Next, we will prove the main theorem by showing that
attains a maximum .
Theorem 3 Let
and
. Suppose
is a continuous decreasing function. If
is an even finite Borel measure on
that is not concentrated on a great subsphere of
, then there exists a convex body
such that
with
.
Proof For
, let
be defined by
From (3) we conclude that
In particular, for each
, there is a positive number
such that
We use
to denote the centered unit ball in
. For every
,
By the equation of (4), it follows that
is positive for small positive
.
Hence, there exists
such that
The Wulff-shape
associated with a given function
is origin symmetric and has a support function
with satisfies
. Since
is increasing and
, we deduce 
Next, we will show that the search for a function at which
attains a maximum can be further restricted to support functions of origin symmetric convex bodies contained in some ball of fixed radius. To this end, first note that the continuous function on
,
is positive since
is not concentrated on a great subsphere. Thus, there exists a
such that
Let
and choose
such that for a suitable real
the point
is an element of
with maximal distance from the origin. Since
is origin symmetric, the line segment with endpoints
is contained in
. From (3) and (2), we deduce
. The monotonicity of
, Jensen's inequality, and (7) therefore yield
Since
, the last inequality show that
From (6) we therefore conclude that there exists a real
such that
It follows from (6) and (8) that in order to find a maximum of the functional
on
, it is sufficient to search among support functions of members of the set
Let
be a maximizing sequence in
for
, i.e
Obviously, the sequence
is bounded. By the Blaschke's selection theorem, there exists a convergent subsequence, which we also denote by
, with
, where
is origin symmetric. Hence,
is origin symmetric. Let
and by the continuity of functional
, we deduce that
Consequently,
has non-empty interior and thus
. Therefore,
is a solution of the maximization problem for Theorem 2. This completes the proof.
Remark 2 When
, Theorem 3 is reduce to the Theorem 4.2 of Ref.[31] in the case of
. When
, Theorem 1 is reduced to the Theorem 1 of Ref.[15].
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