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BRASCAMP–LIEB INEQUALITY AND QUANTITATIVE VERSIONS OF HELLY’S THEOREM

Part of: Inequalities Normed linear spaces and Banach spaces; Banach lattices General convexity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2016

Silouanos Brazitikos
Silouanos Brazitikos*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Athens, Panepistimioupolis 157-84, Athens, Greece email [email protected]
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Abstract

We provide new quantitative versions of Helly’s theorem. For example, we show that for every family $\{P_{i}:i\in I\}$ of closed half-spaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ such that $P=\bigcap _{i\in I}P_{i}$ has positive volume, there exist $s\leqslant \unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}n$ and $i_{1},\ldots ,i_{s}\in I$ such that

$$\begin{eqnarray}\operatorname{vol}_{n}(P_{i_{1}}\cap \cdots \cap P_{i_{s}})\leqslant (Cn)^{n}\operatorname{vol}_{n}(P),\end{eqnarray}$$
where $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC},C>0$ are absolute constants. These results complement and improve previous work of Bárány et al and Naszódi. Our method combines the work of Srivastava on approximate John’s decompositions with few vectors, a new estimate on the corresponding constant in the Brascamp–Lieb inequality and an appropriate variant of Ball’s proof of the reverse isoperimetric inequality.

MSC classification

Primary: 26D15: Inequalities for sums, series and integrals
Secondary: 52A23: Asymptotic theory of convex bodies 52A35: Helly-type theorems and geometric transversal theory 46B06: Asymptotic theory of Banach spaces
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Research Article
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Mathematika , Volume 63 , Issue 1 , 2017 , pp. 272 - 291
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Copyright © University College London 2016 

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