Higher order Poincare inequalities and Minkowski-type inequalities

Abstract

We observe some higher order Poincare-type inequalities on a closed manifold, which is inspired by Hurwitz's proof of the Wirtinger's inequality using Fourier theory. We then give some geometric implication of these inequalities by applying them on the sphere. More specifically, by applying them to the support function of a convex hypersurface in the Euclidean space, we obtain some sharp Minkowski-type inequalities, such as a stability inequality for the classical Minkowski inequality and the Alexandrov-Fenchel inequality.