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

Let K,LRnK,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

(1λ)K+pλL=uSn1{x:x,u((1λ)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((1λ)K+pλL)(1λ)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.

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

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