Logarithmically Concave Measure

Logarithmically Concave Measure

In mathematics, a Borel measure μ on n-dimensional Euclidean space Rn is called logarithmically concave (or log-concave for short) if, for any compact subsets A and B of Rn and 0 < λ < 1, one has

where λ A + (1 − λ) B denotes the Minkowski sum of λ A and (1 − λ) B.

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