Modified for Lean/Mathlib 4.35.0: rename the real-weight AM-GM lemma to avoid a new Mathlib declaration.
The Prékopa–Leindler inequality #
Let a, b > 0 with a + b = 1 and let f, g, h be measurable ℝ≥0∞-valued functions on a
real vector space carrying a measure, subject to
f x ^ a * g y ^ b ≤ h (a • x + b • y) for all x, y.
The Prékopa–Leindler inequality says that then
(∫⁻ f) ^ a * (∫⁻ g) ^ b ≤ ∫⁻ h.
It is the reverse of Hölder's inequality, it contains the Brunn–Minkowski inequality, and it is the one analytic ingredient Bombieri–Gubler import rather than prove in their treatment of Vaaler's cube-slicing theorem (their Lemma C.3.3, quoted from Prékopa). Mathlib has neither this inequality nor Brunn–Minkowski nor log-concavity, so this file starts from the one-dimensional Brunn–Minkowski inequality for sets.
Main definitions #
HasPrekopaLeindler μ: the Prékopa–Leindler inequality holds for the measureμon a real vector space. The predicate exists so that the passage from one dimension tonhas something to induct on.
Main results #
Real.volume_add_volume_le_volume_add: the one-dimensional Brunn–Minkowski inequality,volume s + volume t ≤ volume (s + t)for nonempty measurables,t ⊆ ℝ.MeasureTheory.lintegral_eq_lintegral_measure_ofReal_lt: the layer cake formula for anℝ≥0∞-valued function,∫⁻ f ∂μ = ∫⁻ t in Ioi 0, μ {x | ofReal t < f x}.Real.prekopaLeindler: the inequality onℝ.HasPrekopaLeindler.prod: the inequality passes to a product measure. This is the induction step, and it is Tonelli's theorem and nothing else.HasPrekopaLeindler.of_measurePreserving: transport along a measure-preserving linear equivalence.hasPrekopaLeindler_pi,hasPrekopaLeindler_euclideanSpace: the inequality onFin n → ℝand onEuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin n).
Implementation notes #
⚠ The ℝ≥0∞ codomain and the hypothesis form of the statement remove every side condition.
Bombieri–Gubler state C.3.3 with r t := ⨆ {f x * g y | a • x + b • y = t} on the right, and
Prékopa's own erratum records that this sup-convolution is only guaranteed to be Lebesgue
measurable.
Taking h as given, with f x ^ a * g y ^ b ≤ h (a • x + b • y) as a hypothesis, avoids that
question entirely; and because ∫⁻ is defined for every measurable ℝ≥0∞-valued function, there
is no integrability hypothesis either. Every statement below is therefore hypothesis-free beyond
measurability.
⚠ Prékopa–Leindler tensorizes, so the induction is on a product and not on coordinates.
HasPrekopaLeindler.prod is Tonelli applied twice — integrate out the second factor to get three
functions on the first, whose hypothesis is the original one read at (x₁, x₂) and (y₁, y₂) —
and it mentions neither ℝ nor any dimension. So the n-dimensional theorem is the
one-dimensional one, this closure property, and transport along a linear measure-preserving
equivalence: hasPrekopaLeindler_pi is three lines. That is why the file is written around a
predicate rather than around ℝ ^ n.
⚠ All the geometry is in one dimension, and it is Brunn–Minkowski for sets. After normalizing
f and g to have supremum 1, the level sets {f > t} and {g > t} are nonempty for
0 < t < 1 and satisfy a • {f > t} + b • {g > t} ⊆ {h > t}; the inequality then follows from
volume s + volume t ≤ volume (s + t) on ℝ and the layer cake formula. The Brunn–Minkowski step
is proved for compact sets by translating s by sInf t and t by sSup s — the two translates
lie in s + t and meet in a single point — and extended to measurable sets by inner regularity.
⚠ The normalization is what forces the truncation. The level-set argument needs ⨆ f finite
and nonzero; ⨆ f = ∞ is a genuine case, since an unbounded function can have a finite integral.
The general statement is therefore obtained from the bounded one by replacing f with
min f (n + 1) and letting n → ∞, which needs (⨆ n, u n) ^ p = ⨆ n, u n ^ p for p > 0 —
ENNReal.iSup_rpow below, which is ENNReal.orderIsoRpow and nothing more.
References #
A. Prékopa, On logarithmic concave measures and functions, Acta Sci. Math. 34 (1973), Theorem 3. This is the statement below, and it is the single step Bombieri–Gubler import.
E. Bombieri and W. Gubler, Heights in Diophantine Geometry, Cambridge University Press (2006),
Lemma C.3.3, in the appendix that proves Vaaler's cube-slicing theorem. Their C.3.4 — the
log-concavity of a marginal — is in ArithmeticHeights.LogConcave, and is the only consumer of
this file inside the roadmap.
This is Layer 4.5 (infrastructure) of the ArithmeticHeights roadmap.
Weighted AM–GM in ℝ≥0∞, for two terms: the ℝ≥0∞-valued companion of
NNReal.geom_mean_le_arith_mean2_weighted, stated with real weights because the exponents of
ENNReal.rpow are real.
The one-dimensional Brunn–Minkowski inequality. For nonempty measurable sets s, t ⊆ ℝ,
volume s + volume t ≤ volume (s + t). The sumset need not be measurable: volume is applied to
it as an outer measure.
The layer cake formula for ℝ≥0∞-valued functions. Mathlib's Layercake file states this
for real-valued functions; the ℝ≥0∞ form is what the Prékopa–Leindler proof needs, since the
level sets there may well have infinite measure.
The Prékopa–Leindler inequality on ℝ.
HasPrekopaLeindler μ says that the Prékopa–Leindler inequality holds for the measure μ on
the real vector space E: whenever f x ^ a * g y ^ b ≤ h (a • x + b • y) pointwise, with
a, b > 0 and a + b = 1, the same inequality holds for the integrals.
Equations
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Instances For
Prékopa–Leindler holds for Lebesgue measure on ℝ.
Prékopa–Leindler tensorizes. Integrating out the second factor turns the hypothesis on
E × F into the hypothesis on E for the three marginals, and Tonelli's theorem identifies the
marginals' integrals with the original ones.
Prékopa–Leindler transports along a measure-preserving linear equivalence.
The Prékopa–Leindler inequality on Fin n → ℝ, by induction on n off
hasPrekopaLeindler_real, HasPrekopaLeindler.prod and the measure-preserving linear equivalence
(Fin (n + 1) → ℝ) ≃ₗ[ℝ] ℝ × (Fin n → ℝ).
The Prékopa–Leindler inequality on EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin n), the space Layer 4.5 states
cube slicing on.