The skewed projection inequality for weak antichains

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Let A⊆[0,1]nA\subseteq[0,1]^n be a weak antichain, meaning that no two distinct points x,y∈Ax,y\in A satisfy xi<yix_i<y_i for every coordinate ii. For each i∈[n]i\in[n], define

A‾i=A∩{(x1,…,xn)∈[0,1]n:xi=min⁡{x1,…,xn}}.\underline{A}_i=A\cap\{(x_1,\ldots,x_n)\in[0,1]^n:x_i=\min\{x_1,\ldots,x_n\}\}.

Define the skewed projection Δi:A‾i→[0,1]n−1\Delta_i:\underline{A}_i\to[0,1]^{n-1} by deleting the iith coordinate after subtracting xix_i from every remaining coordinate:

Δi(x1,…,xn)=(x1−xi,…,xi−1−xi,xi+1−xi,…,xn−xi).\Delta_i(x_1,\ldots,x_n)=(x_1-x_i,\ldots,x_{i-1}-x_i,x_{i+1}-x_i,\ldots,x_n-x_i).

Skewed projection inequality. If AA is a weak antichain, then

Hn−1(A)≤∑i=1nHn−1(Δi(A‾i)).\mathcal H^{n-1}(A)\leq\sum_{i=1}^{n}\mathcal H^{n-1}\bigl(\Delta_i(\underline{A}_i)\bigr).

This proposed extension of projection inequalities replaces orthogonal projections by skewed projections. The source presents it as a belief rather than an established result, and the injectivity of these maps on weak antichains motivates the formulation.

References

Primary source

Konrad Engel, Themis Mitsis, Christos Pelekis and Christian Reiher, “Projection inequalities for antichains”, arXiv:1812.06496 (2018).

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