An extension of Milman's reverse Brunn-Minkowski inequality (Q1895259): Difference between revisions

Milman's reverse Brunn-Minkowski inequality is extended to a class of bodies (compact sets with interior points) in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) which are not necessarily convex. For a body \(B\subset \mathbb{R}^n\) let \(p(B)\) be the supremum of the numbers \(p\in (0,1 ]\) for which there exist a volume preserving affine transformation \(T\) of \(\mathbb{R}^n\) and a \(p\)-norm with unit ball \(\overline {B}\) such that \(T(B) \subset \overline {B}\) and \(|\overline {B} |\leq |8^{1/p} B|\) (where \(|\cdot |\) denotes the volume). Then for \(0< p\leq 1\) there exists a constant \(C(p) \geq 1\) with the following property. For \(n\in \mathbb{N}\) and bodies \(A_1, A_2 \subset \mathbb{R}^n\) with \(p(A_1)\), \(p(A_2) \geq p\), there is a volume preserving affine transformation \(T\) of \(\mathbb{R}^n\) such that \[ |T(A_1)+ A_2|^{ 1/n}\leq C(p) (|A_1 |^{ 1/n}+ |A_2 |^{1/n}). \]