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Remarks on Brunn-Minkowski-type inequalities related to the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operator

Analysis of PDEs 2026-03-20 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We investigate Brunn-Minkowski-type inequalities for the torsional rigidity TγT_\gamma and the first eigenvalue λγ\lambda_\gamma associated with the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operator. Counterexamples are provided showing that neither concavity nor convexity properties hold for TγT_\gamma on general bounded convex sets. We also demonstrate that log-concavity and log-convexity properties fail in this setting. In the case of centrally symmetric sets, we answer a question raised by Cordero-Erausquin and Eskenazis by showing that Tγ1/(n+2)T_\gamma^{1/(n+2)} is neither convex nor concave. On the positive side, we prove that Tγ1/3T_\gamma^{1/3} is convex with respect to Minkowski addition when restricted to Euclidean balls centered at the origin. For λγ\lambda_\gamma, we answer negatively a question posed by Colesanti, Francini, Livshyts, and Salani by showing that the inequality λγ(Ωt)1/2(1t)λγ(Ω0)1/2+tλγ(Ω1)1/2\lambda_\gamma(\Omega_t)^{-1/2} \geq (1-t)\lambda_\gamma(\Omega_0)^{-1/2} + t\lambda_\gamma(\Omega_1)^{-1/2} does not hold, even for centrally symmetric sets.

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@article{arxiv.2603.19164,
  title  = {Remarks on Brunn-Minkowski-type inequalities related to the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operator},
  author = {Francisco Marín Sola and Francesco Salerno},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.19164},
  year   = {2026}
}