Analysis Seminar

Minimizing inradius for a given surface area

It is well known that among all convex bodies in R^n with a given surface area, the Euclidean ball has the largest inradius. We will show that this result can be reversed in the class of convex bodies with curvature at each point of their boundary bounded below by some positive constant λ (λ-convex bodies). In particular, we show that among λ-convex bodies of a given surface area,  the λ-convex lens (the intersection of two balls of radius 1/ λ) minimizes the inradius.


 

Integral Inequalities for Convolutions of alpha-Concave Functions

Inequalities for Minkowski sums of convex bodies play a central role in convex geometry and additive combinatorics. A particular  example is the Plünnecke–Ruzsa-type inequality, which also has a geometric analogue for convex bodies. In this talk, we begin by introducing such geometric inequalities and highlighting some of the open problems related to them. We then present functional analogues of Plünnecke–Ruzsa-type inequalities using the alpha-sum, a generalized sup-convolution.

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