DOI: 10.68381/jca32016 ISSN: 0944-6532

Improved Stability Versions of the Prékopa-Leindler Inequality

Alessio Figalli, João P. G. Ramos

We consider the problem of stability for the Prékopa-Leindler inequality. Exploiting properties of the transport map between radially decreasing functions and a suitable functional version of the trace inequality, we obtain a uniform stability exponent for the Prékopa-Leindler inequality. Our result yields an exponent not only uniform in the dimension but also in the log-concavity parameter

\tau=\min(\lambda,1-\lambda) τ = min ⁡ ( λ , 1 − λ )
associated with its respective version of the Prékopa-Leindler inequality. As a further application of our methods, we prove a sharp stability result for log-concave functions in dimension 1, which also extends to a sharp stability result for log-concave radial functions in higher dimensions.