Costa–Cover conjecture on the concavity of parallel volume

Let AA be a bounded measurable set in cmathbbRncmathbb{R}^n, let B2nB_2^n denote the Euclidean closed unit ball, and let |\cdot| denote Lebesgue measure. Costa–Cover conjecture. The function

tA+tB2n1nt \mapsto |A+tB_2^n|^{\frac{1}{n}}

is concave on R+\mathbb{R}_+. This conjecture is the parallel-volume analogue of the concavity of entropy power and concerns a Brunn–Minkowski-type property for Euclidean outer parallel sets; its resolution status is not specified in the source.

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Primary source

Arnaud Marsiglietti, “Concavity properties of extensions of the parallel volume”, arXiv:1306.6899 (2014).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2013). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1302.6093.

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