Petty proved that a convex body in R^n has the minimal surface area amongst its SL(n)images, if, and only if, its surface area measure is isotropic. By introducing a new notion of minimal Orlicz surface area, we generalize this result to the Orlicz setting. The analog of Ball’s reverse isoperimetric inequality is established.

The notion of mixed quermassintegrals in the classical Brunn-Minkowski theory is extended to that of Orlicz mixed quermassintegrals in the Orlicz Brunn-Minkowski theory. The analogs of the classical Cauchy- Kubota formula, the Minkowski isoperimetric inequality and the Brunn-Minkowski inequality are established for this new Orlicz mixed quermassintegrals.

A unified approach used to generalize classical Brunn-Minkowski type inequalities to Lp Brunn-Minkowski type inequalities, called the Lp trans- ference principle, is refined in this paper. As illustrations of the effectiveness and practicability of this method, several new Lp Brunn-Minkowski type in- equalities concerning the mixed volume, moment of inertia, quermassintegral, projection body and capacity are established.

By using the method of mixed volumes, we give sharp bounds for inclusion measures of convex bodies in n-dimensional Euclidean space. In the special cases where the random convex body is the unit ball or when n = 3, neater and simpler bounds are obtained. All the associated inequalities proved are new isoperimetrictype inequalities.

The Orlicz–Legendre ellipsoids, which are in the framework of emerging dual Orlicz Brunn–Minkowski theory, are introduced for the first time. They are in some sense dual to the recently found Orlicz–John ellipsoids, and have largely generalized the classical Legendre ellipsoid of inertia. Several new affine isoperimetric inequalities are established. The connection between the characterization of Orlicz– Legendre ellipsoids and isotropy of measures is demonstrated.