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A generalization of Gr\"unbaum's inequality in RCD$(0,N)$-spaces

Metric Geometry 2025-10-24 v1 Probability Statistics Theory Statistics Theory

Abstract

We generalize Gr\"unbaum's classical inequality in convex geometry to curved spaces with nonnegative Ricci curvature, precisely, to RCD(0,N)\mathrm{RCD}(0,N)-spaces with N(1,)N \in (1,\infty) as well as weighted Riemannian manifolds of RicN0\mathrm{Ric}_N \ge 0 for N(,1){}N \in (-\infty,-1) \cup \{\infty\}. Our formulation makes use of the isometric splitting theorem; given a convex set Ω\Omega and the Busemann function associated with any straight line, the volume of the intersection of Ω\Omega and any sublevel set of the Busemann function that contains a barycenter of Ω\Omega is bounded from below in terms of NN. We also extend this inequality beyond uniform distributions on convex sets. Moreover, we establish some rigidity results by using the localization method, and the stability problem is also studied.

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@article{arxiv.2408.15030,
  title  = {A generalization of Gr\"unbaum's inequality in RCD$(0,N)$-spaces},
  author = {Victor-Emmanuel Brunel and Shin-ichi Ohta and Jordan Serres},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.15030},
  year   = {2025}
}

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