Abstract. For metric measure spaces verifying the reduced curvature-dimension condition CD∗(K,N) we prove a series of sharp functional inequalities under the additional assumption of essentially nonbranching. Examples of spaces entering this framework are (weighted) Riemannian manifolds satisfying lower Ricci curvature bounds and their measured Gromov Hausdorff limits, Alexandrov spaces satisfy...

We introduce f -divergence, a concept from information theory and statistics, for convex bodies in R. We prove that f -divergences are SL(n) invariant valuations and we establish an affine isoperimetric inequality for these quantities. We show that generalized affine surface area and in particular the Lp affine surface area from the Lp Brunn Minkowski theory are special cases of f -divergences.

This is a survey of the recent progress and open questions on the structure of the sets of 0-1 and non-negative integer matrices with prescribed row and column sums. We discuss cardinality estimates, the structure of a random matrix from the set, discrete versions of the Brunn-Minkowski inequality and the statistical dependence between row and column sums.

A precise description of the convexity of Gaussian measures is provided by sharp Brunn-Minkowski type inequalities due to Ehrhard and Borell. We show that these are manifestations of a game-theoretic mechanism: a minimax variational principle for Brownian motion. As an application, we obtain a Gaussian improvement of Barthe’s reverse Brascamp-Lieb inequality.

In this paper, we establish a Farkas-Minkowski type alternative theorem under the supposition of nearly semiconvexlike set-valued maps. Based on the alternative theorem and some other lemmas, we present necessary optimality conditions and sufficient optimality conditions for set-valued vector optimization problems with extended inequality constraints in a sense of weak E-minimizers.

Let ρ and λ be Banach function norms with the Fatou property. Then the generalized Minkowski integral inequality ρ(λ(f x)) ≤ M λ(ρ(f y)) holds for all measurable functions f (x, y) and some fixed constant M if and only if there exists 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞ such that λ is p–concave and ρ is p–convex.

We compare two approaches to Ricci curvature on nonsmooth spaces in the case of the discrete hypercube {0, 1}N . While the coarse Ricci curvature of the first author readily yields a positive value for curvature, the displacement convexity property of Lott, Sturm, and Villani could not be fully implemented. Yet along the way we get new results of a combinatorial and probabilistic nature, includ...

It is shown that if X is a random variable whose density satisfies a Poincaré inequality, and Y is an independent copy of X, then the entropy of (X + Y )/ √ 2 is greater than that of X by a fixed fraction of the entropy gap between X and the Gaussian of the same variance. The argument uses a new formula for the Fisher information of a marginal, which can be viewed as a local, reverse form of th...

and that the same holds if any n— 1 of the signs are replaced by strict inequality. Those unimodular lattices, such as Z , which have only the origin in common with the open cube shall be called critical, as shall the corresponding matrices. Minkowski conjectured, and Hajos [ l ] proved in 1938, that a critical lattice must contain one of the points (5»i, • • • , 5,-»), i = 1, • • • , n. If A i...

We compare two approaches to Ricci curvature on non-smooth spaces, in the case of the discrete hypercube {0, 1} . While the coarse Ricci curvature of the first author readily yields a positive value for curvature, the displacement convexity property of Lott, Sturm and the second author could not be fully implemented. Yet along the way we get new results of a combinatorial and probabilistic natu...