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Diagonal Minkowski classes, zonoid equivalence, and stable laws. (English) Zbl 1455.52003

Summary: We consider the family of convex bodies obtained from an origin symmetric convex body \(K\) by multiplication with diagonal matrices, by forming Minkowski sums of the transformed sets, and by taking limits in the Hausdorff metric. Support functions of these convex bodies arise by an integral transform of measures on the family of diagonal matrices, equivalently, on Euclidean space, which we call \(K\)-transform. In the special case, if \(K\) is a segment not lying on any coordinate hyperplane, one obtains the family of zonoids and the cosine transform. In this case two facts are known: the vector space generated by support functions of zonoids is dense in the family of support functions of origin symmetric convex bodies; and the cosine transform is injective. We show that these two properties are equivalent for general \(K\). For \(K\) being a generalized zonoid, we determine conditions that ensure the injectivity of the \(K\)-transform. Relations to mixed volumes and to a geometric description of one-sided stable laws are discussed. The later probabilistic application motivates our study of a family of convex bodies obtained as limits of sums of diagonally scaled \(\ell_p\)-balls.

MSC:

52A21 Convexity and finite-dimensional Banach spaces (including special norms, zonoids, etc.) (aspects of convex geometry)
52A22 Random convex sets and integral geometry (aspects of convex geometry)
60D05 Geometric probability and stochastic geometry
60E07 Infinitely divisible distributions; stable distributions

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