Support functions and mean width for -concave functions

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2013.03.023MaRDI QIDQ392959zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Liran Rotem

Publication date 15 January 2014

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.4340

zbMATH Keywords

\(\alpha\)-concavitygeneralized Poincaré inequalitymean widthsup-convolution operationsupport functionUrysohn type inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convexity of real functions of several variables, generalizations (26B25) Inequalities involving derivatives and differential and integral operators (26D10)

Abstract: In this paper we extend some notions, previously defined for log-concave functions, to the larger domain of so-called {alpha}-concave functions. We begin with a detailed discussion of support functions - first for log-concave functions, and then for general {alpha}-concave functions. We continue by defining mean width, and proving some basic results such as an Urysohn type inequality. Finally, we demonstrate how such geometric results can imply Poincar'e type inequalities.

Review text

Denote by \(\mathrm{Cvx}({\mathbb{R}}^n)\) the set of all convex and lower semicontinuous functions \(\phi : {\mathbb{R}}^n \to (-\infty, \infty]\) with \(\phi (x)<\infty \) for an \(x\in {\mathbb{R}}^n\). One of the main results of this paper is the following.NEWLINENEWLINE{Theorem.} Assume that a function \(T: \mathrm{Cvx}({\mathbb{R}}^n)\to \mathrm{Cvx}({\mathbb{R}}^n)\) satisfies the following three conditions:NEWLINENEWLINE(1) \(T\) is order preserving: \(\phi\leq \psi\) if and only if \(T \phi \leq T \psi\),NEWLINENEWLINE(2) if \(\phi\) is a positively homogeneous function, then \(T \phi = \phi\), andNEWLINENEWLINE(3) the set \(\{T \phi : \phi \in \mathrm{Cvx}({\mathbb{R}}^n)\}\) is closed under pointwise addition.NEWLINENEWLINEThen \((T \phi)(x) = \frac{1}{C}\phi (Cx)\) for a positive \(C\).NEWLINENEWLINEFrom this theorem a characterization of the support function and the sup-convolution operation is obtained.NEWLINENEWLINEMoreover, some notions are extended from log-concave functions to \(\alpha\)-concave functions. For non-zero, \(\alpha\)-concave and upper semicontinuous functions mapping \({\mathbb{R}}^n\) into \([0, \infty)\) the author defines \(\alpha\)-support function, \(\alpha\)-sum, \(\lambda\)-homothety and \(\alpha\)-mean width, and gives a few of their properties. One of them is an Urysohn type inequality for \(\alpha\)-mean width, which is applied to get a generalized Poincaré inequality.

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