Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4591346 Journal of Functional Analysis 2012 31 Pages PDF
Abstract

We develop a reverse entropy power inequality for convex measures, which may be seen as an affine-geometric inverse of the entropy power inequality of Shannon and Stam. The specialization of this inequality to log-concave measures may be seen as a version of Milmanʼs reverse Brunn–Minkowski inequality. The proof relies on a demonstration of new relationships between the entropy of high dimensional random vectors and the volume of convex bodies, and on a study of effective supports of convex measures, both of which are of independent interest, as well as on Milmanʼs deep technology of M-ellipsoids and on certain information-theoretic inequalities. As a by-product, we also give a continuous analogue of some Plünnecke–Ruzsa inequalities from additive combinatorics.

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