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STABILITY OF THE PRÉKOPA–LEINDLER INEQUALITY

Part of: General convexity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2010

Keith M. Ball  and
Károly J. Böröczky
Keith M. Ball
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, U.K. (email: kmb@math.ucl.ac.uk)
Károly J. Böröczky
Affiliation:
Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1053 Budapest, Hungary (email: carlos@renyi.hu)
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Abstract

We prove a stability version of the Prékopa–Leindler inequality.

MSC classification

Secondary: 52A40: Inequalities and extremum problems
Type
Research Article
Information
Mathematika , Volume 56 , Issue 2 , July 2010 , pp. 339 - 356
Copyright
Copyright © University College London 2010

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