A quantitative result for the $k$-Hessian equation

Abstract

In this paper, we study a symmetrization that preserves the mixed volume of the sublevel sets of a convex function, under which, a Pólya-Szeg\H o type inequality holds. We refine this symmetrization to obtain a quantitative improvement of the Pólya-Szeg\H o inequality for the $k$-Hessian integral, and, with similar arguments, we show a quantitative inequality for the comparison proved by Tso \cite{tso} for solutions to the $k$-Hessian equation. As an application of the first result, we prove a quantitative version of the Faber-Krahn and Saint-Venant inequalities for these equations.