A concavity property for the measure of product sets in groups

Imre Ruzsa

Fundamenta Mathematicae (1992)

  • Volume: 140, Issue: 3, page 247-254
  • ISSN: 0016-2736

Abstract

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Let G be a connected locally compact group with a left invariant Haar measure μ. We prove that the function ξ(x) = inf μ̅(AB): μ(A) = x is concave for any fixed bounded set B ⊂ G. This is used to give a new proof of Kemperman’s inequality for unimodular G.

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Ruzsa, Imre. "A concavity property for the measure of product sets in groups." Fundamenta Mathematicae 140.3 (1992): 247-254. <http://eudml.org/doc/211944>.

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References

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