On the stability of a Brunn-Minkowski type inequality (Q2367291)
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On the stability of a Brunn-Minkowski type inequality (English)
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8 August 1993
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The paper gives a stability version of the Brunn-Minkowski inequality for the mean projection measure \(W_{d-2}\) in Euclidean \(d\)-space \(E^ d\). Let \(K\) and \(L\) be convex bodies in \(E^ d\) of the mean width 1 and with coincident Steiner points. Let \(0 \leq x \leq 1\). Then the difference between \(W_{d-2}(xK + (1-x)L)^{1/2}\) and \(xW_{d-2}(K)^{1/2} + (1- x)W_{d-2}(L)^{1/2}\) is at least \[ x(1-x)(d+1)(d-1)^{-1} d^{-1/2} \sigma_ d^{-1/2} \delta_ 2(K,L)^ 2, \] where \(\sigma_ d\) denotes the surface area of the unit ball in \(E^ d\) and where \(\delta_ 2\) is the \(L_ 2\)-metric on the family of convex bodies in \(E^ d\). The presented estimate of the above difference is sharper than in previously known inequalities of this kind. The proof is short. It is based on the expansion of the support function of a convex body as a series of spherical harmonics.
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Brunn-Minkowski inequality
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mean projection measure
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Euclidean \(d\)-space
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convex body
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