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$F$-concavity is a generalization of power concavity and, actually, the largest available generalization of the notion of concavity. We characterize the $F$-concavities preserved by the Dirichlet heat flow in convex domains on ${\mathbb…

We introduce a notion of $F$-concavity which largely generalizes the usual concavity. By the use of the notions of closedness under positive scalar multiplication and closedness under positive exponentiation we characterize power concavity…

We introduce the notion of F-convexity as a general extension of power convexity. We characterize the F-convexities preserved under the heat flow in the n-dimensional Euclidean space, and identify the strongest and the weakest ones among…

In 1976 Brascamp and Lieb proved that the heat flow preserves logconcavity. In this paper, introducing a variation of concavity, we show that it preserves in fact a stronger property than logconcavity and we identify the strongest concavity…

We study the log-concavity of the first Dirichlet eigenfunction of the Laplacian for convex domains. For positively curved surfaces satisfying a condition involving the curvature and its second derivatives, we show that the first…

A well-known consequence of the Pr{\'e}kopa-Leindler inequality is the preservation of logconcavity by the heat semigroup. Unfortunately, this property does not hold for more general semigroups. In this paper, we exhibit a slightly weaker…

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We show that Shannon's entropy--power inequality admits a strengthened version in the case in which the densities are log-concave. In such a case, in fact, one can extend the Blachman--Stam argument to obtain a sharp inequality for the…

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