Further inequalities for the (generalized) Wills functional

Abstract

The Wills functional [Formula: see text] of a convex body [Formula: see text], defined as the sum of its intrinsic volumes [Formula: see text], turns out to have many interesting applications and properties. In this paper, we make profit of the fact that it can be represented as the integral of a log-concave function, which, furthermore, is the Asplund product of other two log-concave functions, and obtain new properties of the Wills functional (indeed, we will work in a more general setting). Among others, we get upper bounds for [Formula: see text] in terms of the volume of [Formula: see text], as well as Brunn–Minkowski and Rogers–Shephard-type inequalities for this functional. We also show that the cube of edge-length 2 maximizes [Formula: see text] among all [Formula: see text]-symmetric convex bodies in John position, and we reprove the well-known McMullen’s inequality [Formula: see text] using a different approach.