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Optimal transport, Euler equations, Mather and DiPerna-Lions theories

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22 CHAPTER 1. THE OPTIMAL TRANSPORT PROBLEM<br />

Theorem 1.5.1 Let E be a set of finite perimeter with |E| < ∞, then<br />

PK(E) ≥ n|K| 1/n |E| (n−1)/n<br />

<br />

2<br />

A(E)<br />

1 +<br />

,<br />

C0(n)<br />

or, equivalently,<br />

A(E) ≤ C0(n) δ(E),<br />

with a constant C0(n) depending on the dimension only. Moreover C0(n) can be computed<br />

explicitly, <strong>and</strong> we have C0(n) =<br />

61 n 7<br />

(2−2 (n−1)/n ) 3/2 .<br />

The strategy of the proof is to carefully look at Gromov’s proof, <strong>and</strong> underst<strong>and</strong> which informations<br />

can be recovered from each inequality which appears along the proof.<br />

A refined Brunn-Minkowski inequality<br />

As a corollary of this result, we could also prove a refined version of the Brunn-Minkowski on<br />

convex sets: the Brunn-Minkowski inequality states that, given two sets E <strong>and</strong> F , one has<br />

|E + F | 1/n ≥ |E| 1/n + |F | 1/n .<br />

It is well-known that, whenever E <strong>and</strong> F are open bounded convex sets, equality holds in the<br />

Brunn-Minkowski inequality if <strong>and</strong> only if there exist r > 0 <strong>and</strong> x0 ∈ Rn such that E = x0 + rF .<br />

One can use Theorem 1.5.1 to infer an optimal result concerning the stability problem with<br />

respect to the relative asymmetry index of E <strong>and</strong> F , defined as<br />

A(E, F ) = inf<br />

x∈Rn <br />

|E∆(x + rF )|<br />

: r<br />

|E|<br />

n <br />

|F | = |E| .<br />

To this end, it is convenient to introduce the Brunn-Minkowski deficit of E <strong>and</strong> F ,<br />

β(E, F ) :=<br />

|E + F |1/n<br />

|E| 1/n − 1 ,<br />

+ |F | 1/n<br />

<strong>and</strong> the relative size factor of E <strong>and</strong> F , defined as<br />

<br />

|F | |E|<br />

σ(E, F ) := max , .<br />

|E| |F |<br />

Theorem 1.5.2 If E <strong>and</strong> F are open bounded convex sets, then<br />

|E + F | 1/n ≥ (|E| 1/n + |F | 1/n <br />

1<br />

) 1 +<br />

σ(E, F ) 1/n<br />

<br />

2<br />

A(E, F )<br />

C(n)<br />

or, equivalently,<br />

<br />

C(n) β(E, F )σ(E, F ) 1/n ≥ A(E, F ).<br />

An admissible value for C(n) is C(n) = 2C0(n), where C0(n) is the constant defined in Theorem<br />

1.5.1.<br />

We remark that, as we showed in [19] by suitable examples, the decay rate of A in terms of<br />

β <strong>and</strong> σ provided by the above theorem is sharp.

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