Area and antipodal distance in convex hypersurfaces

Abstract

We establish a lower bound for the surface area of a closed, convex hypersurface in Euclidean space in terms of its displacement under continuous maps. As a result, a hypothesized lower bound for the volume of a Riemannian $n$-sphere, proved by Berger in dimension $n=2$ and disproved by Croke in dimensions $n \geq 3$, is valid for convex hypersurfaces in all dimensions. We also establish a sharp lower bound for the mean width of a convex hypersurface.