The square-root stability conjecture for Brunn–Minkowski

Let nNn\in\mathbb{N} with n2n\geq 2, let t(0,1/2)t\in(0,1/2), and let A,BRnA,B\subset\mathbb{R}^n be measurable sets of equal measure satisfying

tA+(1t)B(1+δ)A,|tA+(1-t)B|\leq(1+\delta)|A|,

where δ<dn,t\delta<d_{n,t}. Square-root stability conjecture. There exist constants cn,dn,t>0c_n,d_{n,t}>0 and a convex set KK such that, up to translation, KA,BK\supset A,B and

KA=KBcnt1/2δ1/2A.|K\setminus A|=|K\setminus B|\leq c_nt^{-1/2}\delta^{1/2}|A|.

This conjecture quantifies the expected square-root stability of the Brunn–Minkowski inequality: near equality should force both sets to be close to a common convex set. The source presents it as a major folklore conjecture; its resolution status is not specified.

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Alessio Figalli, Peter van Hintum and Marius Tiba, “Sharp quantitative stability of the Brunn-Minkowski inequality”, arXiv:2310.20643 (2023).

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