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The Brunn-Minkowski inequality and a Minkowski problem for $\mathcal{A}$-harmonic Green's function

Analysis of PDEs 2018-10-10 v1

Abstract

In this article we study two classical problems in convex geometry associated to A\mathcal{A}-harmonic PDEs, quasi-linear elliptic PDEs whose structure is modeled on the pp-Laplace equation. Let pp be fixed with 2np<2\leq n\leq p<\infty. For a convex compact set EE in Rn\mathbb{R}^{n}, we define and then prove the existence and uniqueness of the so called A\mathcal{A}-harmonic Green's function for the complement of EE with pole at infinity. We then define a quantity \mboxCA(E)\mbox{C}_{\mathcal{A}}(E) which can be seen as the behavior of this function near infinity. In the first part of this article, we prove that \mboxCA()\mbox{C}_{\mathcal{A}}(\cdot) satisfies the following Brunn-Minkowski type inequality [\mboxCA(λE1+(1λ)E2)]1pnλ[\mboxCA(E1)]1pn+(1λ)[\mboxCA(E2)]1pn \left[\mbox{C}_\mathcal{A} ( \lambda E_1 + (1-\lambda) E_2 )\right]^{\frac{1}{p-n}} \geq \lambda \, \left[\mbox{C}_\mathcal{A} ( E_1 )\right]^{\frac{1}{p-n}} + (1-\lambda) \left[\mbox{C}_\mathcal{A} (E_2 )\right]^{\frac{1}{p-n}} when n<p<n<p<\infty, 0λ10 \leq \lambda \leq 1, and E1,E2E_1, E_2 are nonempty convex compact sets in Rn\mathbb{R}^{n}. We also show that \mboxCA()\mbox{C}_\mathcal{A}(\cdot) satisfies a similar inequality when p=np=n. Moreover, if equality holds in the either of these inequalities for some E1E_1 and E2E_2 then under certain regularity and structural assumptions on A\mathcal{A} we show that these two sets are homothetic. In the second part of this article we study a Minkowski type problem for a measure associated to the A\mathcal{A}-harmonic Green's function for the complement of a convex compact set EE when np<n\leq p<\infty. If μE\mu_E denotes this measure, then we show that necessary and sufficient conditions for existence under this setting are exactly the same conditions as in the classical Minkowski problem. We also show that this problem has a unique solution up to translation.

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@article{arxiv.1810.03752,
  title  = {The Brunn-Minkowski inequality and a Minkowski problem for $\mathcal{A}$-harmonic Green's function},
  author = {Murat Akman and John Lewis and Olli Saari and Andrew Vogel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.03752},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

76 Pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1709.00447

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