Alexander Koldobsky's Home Page
Curriculum
Vitae
Math 1500 (Analytic Geometry and Calculus
I)
NSF-FRG
Seminar on Fourier Analytic and Probabilistic Methods in Convexity
NSF-FRG Grant Home Page
Books.
Fourier Analysis in Convex Geometry, Mathematical Surveys and
Monographs,
American Mathematical Society, Providence RI 2005. Available at
http://www.ams.org/bookstore-getitem/item=surv-116
Lectures on the Interface between Convex Geometry and Harmonic
Analisys, CBMS Regional Conference Series,
American Mathematical Society, Providence RI, in press (with V.Yaskin)
Recent papers.
The complex Busemann-Petty problem
on sections of convex bodies,
submitted (with H.K\"onig and M.Zymonopoulou)
Inequalities of the Kahane-Khinchin type and sections of
$L_p$-balls, submitted (with A.Pajor and V.Yaskin)
Determination of convex bodies by derivatives of section
functions, Arch. Math. 88 (2007), 279-288 (with C.Shane)
Sobolev spaces with trivial isometries, Positivity 10 (2006),
135-144 (with G.Diestel)
The geometry of L_0, Canad. J. Math., to appear (with N.Kalton,
V.Yaskin, M.Yaskina)
Intersection
bodies and L_p-spaces, Adv. Math. 196 (2005), 257-275 (with
N.Kalton)
Modified
Busemann-Petty problem on sections of convex bodies , Israel J. Math.,
to appear (with
V.Yaskin and M.Yaskina)
Comparison
of volumes by means of areas of central sections, Adv. Appl. Math. 33
(2004), 728-732
Extremal
sections of complex $l_p$-balls, $0<p<2$, Studia Mathematica 159
(2003), 185-194 (with M.Zymonopoulou)
Fourier
methods in the study of sections and projections of convex bodies,
in Fourier Analysis and Convexity, L.Brandolini et al, eds, 119-130
(with D.Ryabogin and A.Zvavitch)
Projections
of convex bodies and the Fourier transform, Israel J. Math. 139 (2004),
361-380 (with D.Ryabogin and A.Zvavitch)
Banach
spaces embedding isometrically into $L_p$ when $0<p<1$ (with
N.Kalton),
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 132 (2004), 67-76
The
Busemann-Petty problem via spherical harmonics, Adv. Math. 177 (2003),
105-114
Extremal
slabs in the cube and the Laplace transform (with F.Barthe), Adv. Math.
174 (2003), 89-114
Sections
of star bodies and the Fourier transform, Contemp. Math.
320 (2003), 225-248
On
the central limit properties of convex bodies (with S.Bobkov), Lect.
Notes in Math. 1807 (2003), 44-52
On
the derivatives of X-ray functions, Arch. Math. 79 (2002), 216--222.
Aspects
of the isometric theory of Banach spaces (with H.Koenig), Handbook of
the Geometry of Banach Spaces, Elsevier, 2001, p. 899--939
Average
volume of sections of star bodies (with M.Lifshits), Lect. Notes in
Math. 1745 (2000), 119--146.
A
functional analytic approach to intersection bodies, GAFA 10 (2000),
1507--1526
An
analytic solution to the Busemann-Petty problem on sections of convex
bodies
(with R.J. Gardner and Th. Schlumprecht),Annals of Math. 149 (1999),
691--703
A
generalization of the Busemann-Petty problem on sections of convex
bodies,
Israel J. Math. 110 (1999), 75--91
A
short proof of Schoenberg's conjecture on positive definite functions
(with Y.Lonke),
Bull. London Math. Soc. 31 (1999), 693--699
A
correlation inequality for stable random vectors, Contemp. Math. 234
(1999), 121--124
Positive
definite distributions and subspaces of $L_{-p}$ with applications to
stable processes, Canad. Math. Bull. 42 (1999), 344-353
Intersection
bodies, positive definite distributions and
the Busemann-Petty problem, Amer. J. Math. 120 (1998), 827--840
Intersection
bodies in $R^4$, Adv. Math. 136 (1998), 1--14
Second
derivative test for intersection bodies, Adv. Math. 136 (1998), 15--25
An
application of the Fourier transform to sections of star bodies,
Israel J. Math. 106 (1998), 157--164