The fractional Brunn–Minkowski inequality for hypergraph fractional partitions

Let M2M\geq2, let K1,,KMK_1,\ldots,K_M be nonempty Borel subsets of Rn\mathbb{R}^n, and let G\mathcal{G} be a collection of subsets of [M][M]. A fractional partition using G\mathcal{G} is a collection of nonnegative weights βs\beta_{\mathbf{s}}, sG\mathbf{s}\in\mathcal{G}, such that

sG:jsβs=1for every j[M].\sum_{\mathbf{s}\in\mathcal{G}:j\in\mathbf{s}}\beta_{\mathbf{s}}=1\quad\text{for every }j\in[M].

The fractional Brunn–Minkowski conjecture. For every such fractional partition,

K1++KM1/nsGβsjsKj1/n.|K_1+\cdots+K_M|^{1/n}\geq\sum_{\mathbf{s}\in\mathcal{G}}\beta_{\mathbf{s}}\left|\sum_{j\in\mathbf{s}}K_j\right|^{1/n}.

This extends the classical Brunn–Minkowski inequality by replacing the individual summands with sums indexed by a fractional partition. Its validity is proposed as a generalization of the convolution inequality, while the source does not establish the full assertion.

Sources & referencesView supporting material

Primary source

Sergey Bobkov, Mokshay Madiman and Liyao Wang, “Fractional generalizations of Young and Brunn-Minkowski inequalities”, arXiv:1006.2884 (2011).

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.