A note on the reduction of the slicing problem to centrally symmetric convex bodies

Abstract

In this paper, we obtain the best possible value of the absolute constant $C$ such that for every isotropic convex body $K \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ the following inequality (which was proved by Klartag and reduces the hyperplane conjecture to centrally symmetric convex bodies) is satisfied: $$ L_K\leq CL_{K_{n+2}(g_K)}. $$ Here $L_K$ denotes the isotropic constant of $K$, $g_K$ its covariogram function, which is log-concave, and, for any log-concave function $g$, $K_{n+2}(g)$ is a convex body associated to the log-concave function $g$, which belongs to a uniparametric family introduced by Ball. In order to obtain this inequality, sharp inclusion results between the convex bodies in this family are obtained whenever $g$ satisfies a better type of concavity than the log-concavity, as $g_K$ is, indeed $\frac{1}{n}$-concave.