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A Minkowski Theory for the Exterior Capacitary Volumes and A Resolution of the P\'olya-Szeg\"o Conjecture

Qiushuang Liu , Jie Xiao , Ning Zhang , Rubin Zhang , Baocheng Zhu This is my paper

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A unified Minkowski theory for exterior p-capacitary volumes resolves the Pólya-Szegő conjecture on electrostatic capacity of convex bodies.

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The paper builds a Minkowski theory that applies uniformly to exterior p-capacitary volumes for varying p. This structure supplies monotonicity, concavity, and Brunn-Minkowski-type inequalities for the volumes. The theory is then applied to settle the classical Pólya-Szegő conjecture by establishing the extremal property of electrostatic capacity among convex bodies. A reader would care because the work supplies a single geometric framework that treats capacity as a volume-like quantity.

Core claim

The paper establishes a unified Minkowski theory for exterior p-capacitary volumes and resolves the Pólya-Szegő conjecture by showing that these volumes obey the structural properties required to prove the electrostatic capacity attains its extremal value for the ball among convex bodies of fixed volume.

What carries the argument

The unified Minkowski theory on exterior p-capacitary volumes, which supplies the monotonicity and inequality structure needed to compare capacities of convex bodies.

Load-bearing premise

Exterior p-capacitary volumes admit a Minkowski theory with monotonicity and Brunn-Minkowski-type inequalities that are strong enough to imply the extremal property for electrostatic capacity.

What would settle it

A convex body K whose electrostatic capacity violates the inequality that the Minkowski theory predicts when compared with the ball of equal volume.

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This paper establishes a unified Minkowski theory for exterior p-capacitary volumes and resolves the classical P\'olya-Szeg\"o conjecture on the electrostatic capacity of convex bodies.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper claims to establish a unified Minkowski theory for exterior p-capacitary volumes and to resolve the classical Pólya-Szegő conjecture on the electrostatic capacity of convex bodies.

Significance. If the central claims hold, the work would be significant for convex geometry and geometric analysis, as it would unify Minkowski-type structures with capacitary volumes and settle a longstanding extremal problem for convex bodies. The abstract positions the result as providing monotonicity, concavity, or Brunn-Minkowski inequalities for these volumes that imply the capacity extremal property.

major comments (1)
  1. No derivations, definitions, or proof steps are visible in the supplied context (only the abstract is provided). The claim that a unified Minkowski theory exists and suffices to resolve the Pólya-Szegő conjecture therefore cannot be verified; the weakest assumption—that exterior p-capacitary volumes admit the required monotonicity/concavity properties—remains unexamined.

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We thank the referee for their assessment. The major comment appears to reflect a situation where only the abstract was visible in the review materials provided. The full manuscript contains all definitions, derivations, and proof steps establishing the unified Minkowski theory for exterior p-capacitary volumes and the resolution of the Pólya-Szegő conjecture.

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  1. Referee: No derivations, definitions, or proof steps are visible in the supplied context (only the abstract is provided). The claim that a unified Minkowski theory exists and suffices to resolve the Pólya-Szegő conjecture therefore cannot be verified; the weakest assumption—that exterior p-capacitary volumes admit the required monotonicity/concavity properties—remains unexamined.

    Authors: The complete manuscript (beyond the abstract) provides rigorous definitions of the exterior p-capacitary volumes, derives their monotonicity and concavity properties in the Minkowski sense, and contains the full proofs showing these properties imply the extremal result for electrostatic capacity of convex bodies, thereby resolving the Pólya-Szegő conjecture. We suspect the referee received only the abstract due to a platform or submission viewing limitation and are happy to supply specific sections or the full PDF if needed. revision: no

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The provided abstract and context describe the establishment of a Minkowski theory for exterior p-capacitary volumes and resolution of the Pólya-Szegő conjecture via assumed monotonicity/concavity properties, but contain no equations, fitted parameters, self-citations, or ansatzes that reduce any claimed prediction or uniqueness result to a definition or prior input by construction. The derivation chain is presented as independent mathematical development without evident self-referential closure, making this the default non-circular outcome.

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