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Transport-majorization to analytic and geometric inequalities

Functional Analysis 2022-09-20 v3 Probability

Abstract

We introduce a transport-majorization argument that establishes a majorization in the convex order between two densities, based on control of the gradient of a transportation map between them. As applications, we give elementary derivations of some delicate Fourier analytic inequalities, which in turn yield geometric "slicing-inequalities" in both continuous and discrete settings. As a further consequence of our investigation we prove that any strongly log-concave probability density majorizes the Gaussian density and thus the Gaussian density maximizes the R\'enyi and Tsallis entropies of all orders among all strongly log-concave densities.

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@article{arxiv.2110.03641,
  title  = {Transport-majorization to analytic and geometric inequalities},
  author = {James Melbourne and Cyril Roberto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.03641},
  year   = {2022}
}

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26 pages, online at Journal of Functional Analysis