The Bobkov–Madiman–Wang volume monotonicity conjecture for Minkowski sums

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Let AA be a compact set in ddd^d for some d∈Nd\in\mathbb{N}. For k∈Nk\in\mathbb{N}, write

A[k]=∑i=1kA.A[k]=\sum_{i=1}^k A.

The volume is the Lebesgue measure, denoted by vol⁡\operatorname{vol}. Bobkov–Madiman–Wang conjecture. The sequence

{vol⁡(1kA[k])}k≥1\left\{\operatorname{vol}\left(\frac{1}{k}A[k]\right)\right\}_{k\geq 1}

is non-decreasing in kk. This conjecture asks whether the volume convergence of 1kA[k]\frac{1}{k}A[k] to the convex hull of AA is monotone; it is a proposed extension of the evident equality for convex sets and the Shapley–Folkman–Starr convergence theorem. The supplied text gives no general resolution, so the conjecture is recorded as open.

References

Primary source

Matthieu Fradelizi, Zsolt Lángi and Artem Zvavitch, “Volume of the Minkowski sums of star-shaped sets”, arXiv:1910.06146 (2021).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2015–2019). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1512.03718.

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