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The effect of dimensionality on the stability in the Brunn-Minkowski inequality: A blessing or a curse?

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September 23, 2011
Keywords:
  • quantitative geometry
  • probability theory
  • stability
  • effective bounds
  • probabilistic measure theory
MSC:
  • 60Gxx
  • 60-xx
  • 46-xx
  • 46Bxx
  • 46B09
  • 46B15
  • 46B80
  • 60F05
  • 60Fxx
Abstract
For a lower bound on the stability, consider the example A = [0,1]^n and B = [0,1+delta]^(n/2) times [0,1/(1+delta)]^(n/2). By choosing delta appropriately, the stability in terms of the measure of the symmetric difference scales like n^2 (although the stability in terms of the Wasserstein distance remains fixed as n grows). This scaling is actually the worst that is known, so it is possible that the bound of Figalli, Maggi and Pratelli (which grows like n^7) could be improved. A joint work with Bo'az Klartag
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