On the inequality of Mathieu.
We study the infimum convolution inequalities. Such an inequality was first introduced by B. Maurey to give the optimal concentration of measure behaviour for the product exponential measure. We show how IC inequalities are tied to concentration and study the optimal cost functions for an arbitrary probability measure μ. In particular, we prove an optimal IC inequality for product log-concave measures and for uniform measures on the balls. Such an optimal inequality implies, for a given measure,...
The main goal of this paper is to characterize the family of all functions f which satisfy the following condition: whenever g is a Darboux function and f < g on ℝ there is a Darboux function h such that f < h < g on ℝ.
The classical Denjoy-Young-Saks theorem gives a relation, here termed the Denjoy property, between the Dini derivatives of an arbitrary one-variable function that holds almost everywhere. Concerning the possible generalizations to higher dimensions, A. S. Besicovitch proved the following: there exists a continuous function of two variables such that at each point of a set of positive measure there exist continuum many directions, in each of which one Dini derivative is infinite and the other...