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Improved Bounds for Hermite-Hadamard Inequalities in Higher Dimensions

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2019-07-16 v1 Functional Analysis Metric Geometry

Abstract

Let ΩRn\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n be a convex domain and let f:ΩRf:\Omega \rightarrow \mathbb{R} be a positive, subharmonic function (i.e. Δf0\Delta f \geq 0). Then 1ΩΩfdxcnΩΩfdσ, \frac{1}{|\Omega|} \int_{\Omega}{f dx} \leq \frac{c_n}{ |\partial \Omega| } \int_{\partial \Omega}{ f d\sigma}, where cn2n3/2c_n \leq 2n^{3/2}. This inequality was previously only known for convex functions with a much larger constant. We also show that the optimal constant satisfies cnn1c_n \geq n-1. As a byproduct, we establish a sharp geometric inequality for two convex domains where one contains the other Ω2Ω1Rn \Omega_2 \subset \Omega_1 \subset \mathbb{R}^n: Ω1Ω1Ω2Ω2n. \frac{|\partial \Omega_1|}{|\Omega_1|} \frac{| \Omega_2|}{|\partial \Omega_2|} \leq n.

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@article{arxiv.1907.06122,
  title  = {Improved Bounds for Hermite-Hadamard Inequalities in Higher Dimensions},
  author = {Thomas Beck and Barbara Brandolini and Krzysztof Burdzy and Antoine Henrot and Jeffrey J. Langford and Simon Larson and Robert G. Smits and Stefan Steinerberger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.06122},
  year   = {2019}
}