Convex bodies with identical John and LYZ ellipsoids are characterized. This solves an important problem from convex geometry posed by G. Zhang. As applications, several sharp affine isoperimetric inequalities are established.

In 1999, Dar conjectured if there is a stronger version of the celebrated Brunn-Minkowski inequality. However, as pointed out by Campi, Gardner, and Gronchi in 2011, this problem seems to be open even for planar o-symmetric convex bodies. In this paper, we give a positive answer to Dar’s conjecture for all planar convex bodies. We also give the equality condition of this stronger inequality. For planar o-symmetric convex bodies, the log-Brunn-Minkowski inequality was established by B¨or¨oczky, Lutwak, Yang, and Zhang in 2012. It is stronger than the classical Brunn-Minkowski inequality, for planar o-symmetric convex bodies. Gaoyong Zhang asked if there is a general version of this inequality. Fortunately, the solution of Dar’s conjecture, especially, the definition of “dilation position”, inspires us to obtain a general version of the log-Brunn-Minkowski inequality. As expected, this inequality implies the classical Brunn-Minkowski inequality for all planar convex bodies.

The Orlicz–John ellipsoids, which are in the framework of the booming Orlicz Brunn–Minkowski theory, are introduced for the first time. It turns out that they are generalizations of the classical John ellipsoid and the evolved Lp John ellipsoids. The analog of Ball’s volume-ratio inequality is established for the new Orlicz–John ellipsoids. The connection between the isotropy of measures and the characterization of Orlicz–John ellipsoids is demonstrated.

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The Orlicz Brunn-Minkowski theory originated with the work of Lutwak, Yang, and Zhang in 2010. In this paper, we first introduce the Orlicz addition of convex bodies containing the origin in their interiors, and then extend the Lp Brunn-Minkowski inequality to the Orlicz Brunn-Minkowski inequality. Furthermore, we extend the Lp Minkowski mixed volume inequality to the Orlicz mixed volume inequality by using the Orlicz Brunn-Minkowski inequality.