The LpL^p-Brunn-Minkowski conjecture for centrally symmetric convex bodies

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Let K,L⊂RnK,L\subset\mathbb R^n be centrally symmetric convex bodies, let p∈(0,1)p\in(0,1), and let λ∈[0,1]\lambda\in[0,1]. Define the LpL^p-combination by its support-function description

(1−λ)K+pλL=⋂u∈Sn−1{x:⟨x,u⟩≤((1−λ)hK(u)p+λhL(u)p)1/p}.(1-\lambda)K+_p\lambda L=\bigcap_{u\in S^{n-1}}\{x:\langle x,u\rangle\le ((1-\lambda)h_K(u)^p+\lambda h_L(u)^p)^{1/p}\}.

The LpL^p-Brunn-Minkowski conjecture. One has

vol⁡((1−λ)K+pλL)≥(1−λ)vol⁡(K)p/n+λvol⁡(L)p/n.\operatorname*{vol}((1-\lambda)K+_p\lambda L)\ge (1-\lambda)\operatorname*{vol}(K)^{p/n}+\lambda\operatorname*{vol}(L)^{p/n}.

This is the conjectured subunit-exponent analogue of the Brunn-Minkowski inequality. The source notes that the conjecture is known in dimension two through the log-Brunn-Minkowski conjecture and that later work proves it for pp sufficiently close to 11, while the general case remains open.

References

Primary source

Eli Putterman, “Equivalence of the local and global versions of the L^p-Brunn-Minkowski inequality”, arXiv:1909.03729 (2019).

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