The Alexandrov–Fenchel type inequalities, revisited

Various Alexandrov–Fenchel type inequalities have appeared and played important roles in convex geometry, matrix theory and complex algebraic geometry. It has been noticed for some time that they share some striking analogies and have intimate relationships. The purpose of this article is to shed new light on this by comparatively investigating them in several aspects. The principal result in this article is a complete solution to the equality characterization problem of various Alexandrov–Fenchel type inequalities for intersection numbers of nef and big classes on compact Kähler manifolds, extending some earlier related results. In addition to this central result, we also give a geometric proof of the complex version of the Alexandrov–Fenchel inequality for mixed discriminants and a determinantal generalization of various Alexandrov–Fenchel type inequalities.

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This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 12371066) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.

Received 25 August 2020

Accepted 14 September 2021

Published 10 August 2024