{"@context":["https://w3id.org/fdo/context/v1",{"schema":"https://schema.org/","prov":"http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#","fdo":"https://w3id.org/fdo/vocabulary/"}],"@id":"https://fdo.portal.mardi4nfdi.de/fdo/Q1376575","@type":"DigitalObject","kernel":{"@id":"https://fdo.portal.mardi4nfdi.de/fdo/Q1376575","digitalObjectType":"https://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle","primaryIdentifier":"mardi:Q1376575","kernelVersion":"v1","immutable":true,"modified":"2025-12-24T22:55:05Z"},"profile":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ScholarlyArticle","@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q1376575","name":"The Brunn-Minkowski inequality and nonconvex sets","headline":"The Brunn-Minkowski inequality and nonconvex sets","description":"scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1098613","url":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q1376575","datePublished":"1997-12-18","author":[{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q228786"}],"publisher":[{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q181320"}],"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","propertyID":"doi","value":"10.1023/A:1004958110076","url":"https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004958110076"},"sameAs":["https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004958110076"],"comment":"The author aims at improving the Brunn-Minkowski inequality for nonconvex sets, by introducing the convex hull of one of the sets into the estimate. For a Borel set \\(B\\) in \\(\\mathbb{R}^d\\), define  \\[ \\xi(a): =\\inf\\bigl\\{\\mu (A+B):A \\text{ Borel set, } \\mu(A)=a \\bigr\\},  \\]  where \\(\\mu\\) denotes Lebesgue measure, and let \\(\\mu(B)=b\\), \\(\\mu(\\text{conv} B) =v\\). It is proved that  \\[ \\xi(a)^{1/d} \\geq a^{1/d} +v^{1/d} \\bigl(1-c (v/b)^{1/2} (v/a)^{1/(2d)}), \\]  where \\(c\\) is a constant depending on \\(d\\). This improves the Brunn-Minkowski inequality \\(\\xi(a)^{1/d} \\geq a^{1/d} +b^{1/d}\\) if \\(v>b\\) and \\(a\\) is sufficiently large. Asymptotically, the estimate is best possible, because it follows that  \\[ \\lim_{a\\to \\infty} \\xi(a)^{1/d}-a^{1/d} =\\mu (\\text{conv} B)^{1/d}. \\]"},"provenance":{"prov:generatedAtTime":"2025-12-24T22:55:05Z","prov:wasAttributedTo":"MaRDI Knowledge Graph"}}