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In this work we prove a Brunn-Minkowski-type inequality in the context of symplectic geometry and discuss some of its applications.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-12-27 Shiri Artstein-Avidan , Yaron Ostrover

We prove that the exponent of the entropy of one dimensional projections of a log-concave random vector defines a 1/5-seminorm. We make two conjectures concerning reverse entropy power inequalities in the log-concave setting and discuss…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-01-25 Keith Ball , Piotr Nayar , Tomasz Tkocz

We show that an information-theoretic property of Shannon's entropy power, known as concavity of entropy power, can be fruitfully employed to prove inequalities in sharp form. In particular, the concavity of entropy power implies the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-13 Giuseppe Toscani

In the first part of the paper, we define an approximated Brunn-Minkowski inequality which generalizes the classical one for length spaces. Our new definition based only on distance properties allows us also to deal with discrete spaces.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-10-26 Michel Bonnefont

We study the dimensional Brunn-Minkowski inequality for even log-concave probability measures $\mu$ on $\mathbb{R}^n$ via an analytic approach based on diffusion operators and gradient estimates. Our main result asserts that for every pair…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Alexandros Eskenazis , Apostolos Giannopoulos , Natalia Tziotziou

The aim of this note is to connect a reversed form of the Gross logarithmic Sobolev inequality with the Gaussian maximum of Shannon's entropy power. There is thus a complete parallel with the well-known link between logarithmic Sobolev…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-10-23 Djalil Chafai

We give an alternative proof for discrete Brunn-Minkowski type inequalities, recently obtained by Halikias, Klartag and the author. This proof also implies somewhat stronger weighted versions of these inequalities. Our approach generalizes…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Boaz A. Slomka

General results on convex bodies are reviewed and used to derive an exact closed-form parametric formula for the Minkowski sum boundary of $m$ arbitrary ellipsoids in $N$-dimensional Euclidean space. Expressions for the principal curvatures…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Gregory S. Chirikjian , Bernard Shiffman

The present note is a result of an on-going investigation into the logarithmic Brunn-Minkowski inequality. We obtain lower estimates on the volume product for convex bodies in $\mathbb{R}^n$ not necessarily symmetric with respect to the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-06-03 Alina Stancu

We prove stability estimates for the Brunn-Minkowski inequality for convex sets. Unlike existing stability results, our estimates improve as the dimension grows. Our results are equivalent to a thin shell bound, which is one of the central…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2012-08-07 Ronen Eldan , Bo`az Klartag

The theory of coconvex bodies was formalized by A.~Khovanski{\u\i} and V.~Timorin in \cite{KT}. It has fascinating relations with the classical theory of convex bodies, as well as applications to Lorentzian geometry. In a recent preprint…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-15 François Fillastre

The Brunn-Minkowski and Pr\'{e}kopa-Leindler inequalities admit a variety of proofs that are inspired by convexity. Nevertheless, the former holds for compact sets and the latter for integrable functions so it seems that convexity has no…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Peter Pivovarov , Jesus Rebollo Bueno

In 2011 Lutwak, Yang and Zhang extended the definition of the $L_p$-Minkowski convex combination ($p \geq 1$) introduced by Firey in the 1960s from convex bodies containing the origin in their interiors to all measurable subsets in…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Michael Roysdon , Sudan Xing

A lower bound on the R\'enyi differential entropy of a sum of independent random vectors is demonstrated in terms of rearrangements. For the special case of Boltzmann-Shannon entropy, this lower bound is better than that given by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-07 Liyao Wang , Mokshay Madiman

Various results are proved giving lower bounds for the $m$th intrinsic volume $V_m(K)$, $m=1,\dots,n-1$, of a compact convex set $K$ in ${\mathbb{R}}^n$, in terms of the $m$th intrinsic volumes of its projections on the coordinate…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-12-10 Stefano Campi , Richard J. Gardner , Paolo Gronchi

We show that the fundamental objects of the $L_p$-Brunn-Minkowski theory, namely the $L_p$-affine surface areas for a convex body, are closely related to information theory: they are exponentials of R\'enyi divergences of the cone measures…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2011-05-06 Elisabeth M. Werner

In contemporary convex geometry, the rapidly developing L_p-Brunn Minkowski theory is a modern analogue of the classical Brunn Minkowski theory. A cornerstone of this theory is the L_p-affine surface area for convex bodies. Here, we…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-14 U. Caglar , M. Fradelizi , O. Guedon , J. Lehec , C. Schuett , E. M. Werner

Over the past few years, a family of interesting new inequalities for the entropies of sums and differences of random variables has been developed by Ruzsa, Tao and others, motivated by analogous results in additive combinatorics. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Mokshay Madiman , Ioannis Kontoyiannis

We establish a discrete analog of the R\'enyi entropy comparison due to Bobkov and Madiman. For log-concave variables on the integers, the min entropy is within log e of the usual Shannon entropy. Additionally we investigate the entropic…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-06-01 James Melbourne , Tomasz Tkocz

Relative to the Gaussian measure on $\mathbb{R}^d$, entropy and Fisher information are famously related via Gross' logarithmic Sobolev inequality (LSI). These same functionals also separately satisfy convolution inequalities, as proved by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-22 Thomas A. Courtade