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

Let AA be a compact set in ddd^d for some dNd\in\mathbb{N}. For kNk\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])}k1\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.

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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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