La presente tesis aborda problemas de optimización y obtención de desigualdades óptimas dentro de la Geometría Convexa. En concreto, se recogen las propiedades conocidas del anillo mínimo asociado a un cuerpo convexo plano y se estudian algunas propiedades nuevas que ayudan a conocer mejor la relación entre ambos. Se estudian con detalle las desigualdades geométricas existentes entre el anillo mínimo de un cuerpo convexo y las magnitudes geométricas clásicas, a saber, área, perímetro, circunradio, inradio, anchura mínima y diámetro, obteniendo en cada caso los conjuntos extremales. Se estudian con detalle propiedades que relacionan el anillo mínimo de un cuerpo convexo con su circunradio por un lado, y su inradio por otros. Se consideran fijos anillo mínimo y circunradio y se presentan las desigualdades óptimas que realcionan estas magnitudes con las restantes, describiendo los conjuntos extremales. Finalmente se realiza algo similar pero considerando fijos, esta vez, el anillo mínimo y el inradio. / This thesis aims to deal with the optimization problems and how to obtain the optimal inequalities within the Convex Geometry. It aims to treat with the already known properties of the minimal annulus associated to a plane convex body; we are also to study some new properties that help us know the relationship between both of them. The geometrical inequalities existing between the minimal annulus of a convex body and the classical geometrical measures are studied in detail. These measures are the area, the perimeter, the circumradius, the inradius, the minimal width and the diameter, and we will obtain in each case the extremal sets. We will study in detail those properties relating the minimal annulus of a convex body with its circumradius first and its inradius later. We will consider as fixed the minimal annulus and the cicumradius, and the optimal inequalities that relate those measures with the remaining one will be represented by describing the extremal sets. Finally, we will do something similar but considering as fixed the minimal annulus and the inradius.

The results presented in this dissertation refer to the geometry of Minkowski spaces, i.e., of real finite-dimensional Banach spaces. First we study geometric properties of radial projections of bisectors in Minkowski spaces, especially the relation between the geometric structure of radial projections and Birkhoff orthogonality. As an application of our results it is shown that for any Minkowski space there exists a number, which plays somehow the role that $\sqrt2$ plays in Euclidean space. This number is referred to as the critical number of any Minkowski space. Lower and upper bounds on the critical number are given, and the cases when these bounds are attained are characterized. Moreover, with the help of the properties of bisectors we show that a linear map from a normed linear space $X$ to another normed linear space $Y$ preserves isosceles orthogonality if and only if it is a scalar multiple of a linear isometry. Further on, we examine the two tangent segments from any exterior point to the unit circle, the relation between the length of a chord of the unit circle and the length of the arc corresponding to it, the distances from the normalization of the sum of two unit vectors to those two vectors, and the extension of the notions of orthocentric systems and orthocenters in Euclidean plane into Minkowski spaces. Also we prove theorems referring to chords of Minkowski circles and balls which are either concurrent or parallel. All these discussions yield many interesting characterizations of the Euclidean spaces among all (strictly convex) Minkowski spaces. In the final chapter we investigate the relation between the length of a closed curve and the length of its midpoint curve as well as the length of its image under the so-called halving pair transformation. We show that the image curve under the halving pair transformation is convex provided the original curve is convex. Moreover, we obtain several inequalities to show the relation between the halving distance and other quantities well known in convex geometry. It is known that the lower bound for the geometric dilation of rectifiable simple closed curves in the Euclidean plane is $\pi/2$, which can be attained only by circles. We extend this result to Minkowski planes by proving that the lower bound for the geometric dilation of rectifiable simple closed curves in a Minkowski plane $X$ is analogously a quarter of the circumference of the unit circle $S_X$ of $X$, but can also be attained by curves that are not Minkowskian circles. In addition we show that the lower bound is attained only by Minkowskian circles if the respective norm is strictly convex. Also we give a sufficient condition for the geometric dilation of a closed convex curve to be larger than a quarter of the perimeter of the unit circle.

Cette thèse comporte trois chapitres indépendants portant sur l’itération des applicationsrationnelles sur des variétés projectives et plus spécifiquement sur l’étude du comportement dela suite des degrés des itérés de telles applications.Dans le premier chapitre, nous donnons une construction des invariants fondamentaux quesont les degrés dynamiques dans un cadre très général, et ce sans hypothèse ni sur la caractéristique ni sur les singularités de l’espace ambiant. Cette construction repose sur des propriétésde positivité des cycles algébriques, et propose une alternative aux approches analytiques deDinh et Sibony ou algébriques de Truong.Le second chapitre est issu d’un article écrit en commun avec Jian Xiao. Notre contributionporte sur des objets centraux en géométrie convexe appelés valuations. Nous transférons à l’espace des valuations des notions de positivité des cycles algébriques récemment introduites parLehmann et Xiao, ce qui nous permet d’étendre l’opération de convolution originellement définie par Bernig et Fu à une sous-classe de valuations suffisamment positives.Le troisième chapitre constitue le coeur de la thèse, et porte sur des estimations des degrésdynamiques des automorphismes dit modérés de la quadrique affine de dimension 3. Nos arguments sont de nature variée, et s’appuient sur l’action du groupe modéré sur un complexe carréCAT(0) et Gromov hyperbolique récemment introduite par Bisi, Furter et Lamy.Nous avons finalement collecté dans un dernier et court chapitre quelques pistes de recherchedirectement inspirées des travaux présentés ici. / This thesis is divided into three independent chapters on the iterates of rational maps on projective varieties and more specifically on the study of the growth of the degree sequences of the iterates of such maps. In the first chapter, we give a construction of the fundamental invariants called dynamical degrees. Our method holds in a very general setting, without any conditions on the characteristic of the field or on the singularities of the ambient space.This construction is based on the study of positivity properties of algebraic cycles and gives an alternative approach to the analytical technics of Dinh and Sibony or to the algebraic arguments of Truong.The second chapter is taken from an article written in joint work with Jian Xiao. Our paper focuses on central objects in convex geometry called valuations. We transfer some positivity notions of algebraic cycles recently introduced by Lehmann and Xiao, this allows us to extend the convolution operation defined by Bernig and Fu to a subspace of sufficiently positive valuations.The third chapter is the core of this thesis and focuses on the dynamical degrees of the so-called tame automorphisms of an affine quadric threefold. Our arguments are of various nature and rely on the action of the tame group on a CAT(0), Gromov hyperbolic square complex recently introduced by Bisi, Furter and Lamy. Finally, we have collected in the last chapter a few perpectives directly inspired by this work.

We consider the distribution of the zero and typical cells of a (homogeneous) Poisson hyperplane tessellation. We give a direct proof adapted to our setting of the well known Complementary Theorem. We provide sharp bounds for the tail distribution of the number of facets. We also improve existing bounds for the tail distribution of size measurements of the cells, such as the volume or the mean width. We improve known results about the generalised D.G. Kendall's problem, which asks about the shape of large cells. We also show that cells with many facets cannot be close to a lower dimensional convex body. We tacle the much less study problem of the number of facets and the shape of small cells. In order to obtain the results above we also develop some purely geometric tools, in particular we give new results concerning the polytopal approximation of an elongated convex body.