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Boundary value problem and the Ehrhard inequality

Analysis of PDEs 2017-06-22 v2

Abstract

Let I,JRI, J\subset \mathbb{R} be closed intervals, and let HH be C3C^{3} smooth real valued function on I×JI\times J with nonvanishing HxH_{x} and HyH_{y}. Take any fixed positive numbers a,ba,b, and let dμd\mu be a probability measure with finite moments and absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue measure. We show that for the inequality RnesssupyRn  H(f(xya),g(yb))dμ(x)H(Rnfdμ,Rngdμ) \int_{\mathbb{R}^{n}} \mathrm{ess\,sup}_{y \in \mathbb{R}^{n}}\; H\left( f\left(\frac{x-y}{a}\right),g\left(\frac{y}{b}\right)\right)d\mu (x) \geq H\left(\int_{\mathbb{R}^{n}}fd\mu, \int_{\mathbb{R}^{n}}gd\mu \right) to hold for all Borel functions f,gf,g with values in II and JJ correspondingly it is necessary that a2HxxHx2+(1a2b2)HxyHxHy+b2HyyHy20, a^{2}\frac{H_{xx}}{H_{x}^{2}}+(1-a^{2}-b^{2})\frac{H_{xy}}{H_{x}H_{y}}+b^{2}\frac{H_{yy}}{H_{y}^{2}}\geq 0, ab1|a-b|\leq 1, a+b1a+b\geq 1 and Rnxdμ=0\int_{\mathbb{R}^{n}}xd\mu=0 if a+b>1a+b>1. Moreover, if dμd\mu is a Gaussian measure then the necessary condition becomes sufficient. This extends Pr\'ekopa--Leindler and Ehrhard inequalities to an arbitrary function H(x,y)H(x,y). As an immediate application we obtain the new proof of the Ehrhard inequality. In particular, we show that in the class of even probability measures with smooth positive density and finite moments the Gaussian measure is the only one which satisfies the functional form of the Ehrhard inequality on the real line with their own distribution functions.

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@article{arxiv.1605.04840,
  title  = {Boundary value problem and the Ehrhard inequality},
  author = {Paata Ivanisvili},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.04840},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

25 pages, 2 figures. Fixed several typos. Added a new section (Section 3.1) about how to solve PDE. Removed less valuable corollaries from the paper. Added some references. Slightly modified the abstract

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