Brunn-Minkowski inequality and its aftermath. (English) Zbl 0467.26008

Gupta, Somesh Das

J. Multivariate Anal. 10, 296-318 (1980).

MSC:

26D15	Inequalities for sums, series and integrals
28A20	Measurable and nonmeasurable functions, sequences of measurable functions, modes of convergence
52A40	Inequalities and extremum problems involving convexity in convex geometry
28A75	Length, area, volume, other geometric measure theory
62E99	Statistical distribution theory
62H99	Multivariate analysis

Keywords:

generalization of the Brunn-Minkowski-Lusternik inequality; s-unimodular functions; Borel-measurable functions

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