An affine Orlicz Polya-Szego principle

Abstract

The author established the affine Orlicz Polya-Szego principle for log-concave functions and conjectured that the principle can be extended to the general Orlicz Sobolev functions. In this paper, we confirm this conjecture completely. An affine Orlicz Polya-Szego principle, which includes all the previous affine Polya-Szego principles as special cases, is formulated and proved. As a consequence, an Orlicz-Petty projection inequality for star bodies is established.