Remarks on Brunn-Minkowski-type inequalities related to the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operator
Abstract
We investigate Brunn-Minkowski-type inequalities for the torsional rigidity and the first eigenvalue associated with the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operator. Counterexamples are provided showing that neither concavity nor convexity properties hold for 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 is neither convex nor concave. On the positive side, we prove that is convex with respect to Minkowski addition when restricted to Euclidean balls centered at the origin. For , we answer negatively a question posed by Colesanti, Francini, Livshyts, and Salani by showing that the inequality 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}
}