Rearrangement and polarization (Q2006083)

The paper offers a new approach to rearrangements on certain classes of measurable real-valued functions on \({\mathbb R}^n\). (Rearrangements are maps that are monotonic -up to sets of measure zero- and equimeasurable, i.e., they preserve the measure of super-level sets of functions, e.g. the Steiner and Schwarz symmetrization of functions). The authors make us understand which properties of rearrangements characterize polarization; to this aim, new results are obtained on the structure of measure-preserving maps on convex bodies and of rearrangements in general.