Vitale's random Brunn–Minkowski inequality

In mathematics, Vitale's random Brunn–Minkowski inequality is a theorem due to Richard Vitale that generalizes the classical Brunn–Minkowski inequality for compact subsets of n-dimensional Euclidean space Rn to random compact sets.

Statement of the inequality

Let X be a random compact set in Rn; that is, a Borelmeasurable function from some probability space (Ω, Σ, Pr) to the space of non-empty, compact subsets of Rn equipped with the Hausdorff metric. A random vector V : Ω  Rn is called a selection of X if Pr(V  X) = 1. If K is a non-empty, compact subset of Rn, let

and define the expectation E[X] of X to be

Note that E[X] is a subset of Rn. In this notation, Vitale's random Brunn–Minkowski inequality is that, for any random compact set X with E[X] < +,

where "vol" denotes n-dimensional Lebesgue measure.

Relationship to the Brunn–Minkowski inequality

If X takes the values (non-empty, compact sets) K and L with probabilities 1  λ and λ respectively, then Vitale's random Brunn–Minkowski inequality is simply the original Brunn–Minkowski inequality for compact sets.

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