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On the sine polarity and the $L_p$-sine Blaschke-Santaló inequality

This paper is dedicated to study the sine version of polar bodies and establish the $L_p$-sine Blaschke-Santaló inequality for the $L_p$-sine centroid body. The $L_p$-sine centroid body $Λ_p K$ for a star body $K\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ is a convex body based on the $L_p$-sine transform, and its associated Blaschke-Santaló inequality provides an upper bound for the volume of $Λ_p^{\circ}K$, the polar body of $Λ_p K$, in terms of the volume of $K$. Thus, this inequality can be viewed as the "sine cousin" of the $L_p$ Blaschke-Santaló inequality established by Lutwak and Zhang. As $p\rightarrow \infty$, the limit of $Λ_p^{\circ} K$ becomes the sine polar body $K^{\diamond}$ and hence the $L_p$-sine Blaschke-Santaló inequality reduces to the sine Blaschke-Santaló inequality for the sine polar body. The sine polarity naturally leads to a new class of convex bodies $\mathcal{C}_{e}^n$, which consists of all origin-symmetric convex bodies generated by the intersection of origin-symmetric closed solid cylinders. Many notions in $\mathcal{C}_{e}^n$ are developed, including the cylindrical support function, the supporting cylinder, the cylindrical Gauss image, and the cylindrical hull. Based on these newly introduced notions, the equality conditions of the sine Blaschke-Santaló inequality are settled.