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Dual Loomis-Whitney Inequalities via Information Theory

We establish lower bounds on the volume and the surface area of a geometric body using the size of its slices along different directions. In the first part of the paper, we derive volume bounds for convex bodies using generalized subadditivity properties of entropy combined with entropy bounds for l...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Hao, Jing, Jog, Varun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7515338/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33267522
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e21080809
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Sumario:We establish lower bounds on the volume and the surface area of a geometric body using the size of its slices along different directions. In the first part of the paper, we derive volume bounds for convex bodies using generalized subadditivity properties of entropy combined with entropy bounds for log-concave random variables. In the second part, we investigate a new notion of Fisher information which we call the [Formula: see text]-Fisher information and show that certain superadditivity properties of the [Formula: see text]-Fisher information lead to lower bounds for the surface areas of polyconvex sets in terms of its slices.