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Sharp quantitative stability of the planar Brunn-Minkowski inequality

Functional Analysis 2019-11-28 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We prove a sharp stability result for the Brunn-Minkowski inequality for A,BR2A,B\subset\mathbb{R}^2. Assuming that the Brunn-Minkowski deficit δ=A+B12/(A12+B12)1\delta=|A+B|^{\frac{1}{2}}/(|A|^\frac12+|B|^\frac12)-1 is sufficiently small in terms of t=A12/(A12+B12)t=|A|^{\frac{1}{2}}/(|A|^{\frac{1}{2}}+|B|^{\frac{1}{2}}), there exist homothetic convex sets KAAK_A \supset A and KBBK_B\supset B such that KAAA+KBBBCt12δ12\frac{|K_A\setminus A|}{|A|}+\frac{|K_B\setminus B|}{|B|} \le C t^{-\frac{1}{2}}\delta^{\frac{1}{2}}. The key ingredient is to show for every ϵ>0\epsilon>0, if δ\delta is sufficiently small then co(A+B)(A+B)(1+ϵ)(co(A)A+co(B)B)|co(A+B)\setminus (A+B)|\le (1+\epsilon)(|co(A)\setminus A|+|co(B)\setminus B|).

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@article{arxiv.1911.11945,
  title  = {Sharp quantitative stability of the planar Brunn-Minkowski inequality},
  author = {Peter van Hintum and Hunter Spink and Marius Tiba},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.11945},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

29 pages, 19 figures. Comments welcome

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