Do Minkowski averages get progressively more convex?
Metric Geometry
2016-02-09 v2 Functional Analysis
Optimization and Control
Abstract
Let us define, for a compact set , the Minkowski averages of : We study the monotonicity of the convergence of towards the convex hull of , when considering the Hausdorff distance, the volume deficit and a non-convexity index of Schneider as measures of convergence. For the volume deficit, we show that monotonicity fails in general, thus disproving a conjecture of Bobkov, Madiman and Wang. For Schneider's non-convexity index, we prove that a strong form of monotonicity holds, and for the Hausdorff distance, we establish that the sequence is eventually nonincreasing.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1512.03718,
title = {Do Minkowski averages get progressively more convex?},
author = {Matthieu Fradelizi and Mokshay Madiman and Arnaud Marsiglietti and Artem Zvavitch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.03718},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
6 pages, including figures. Contains announcement of results that will be part of a more comprehensive, forthcoming paper. Version 2 corrects a typo