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Polar Isoperimetry. I: The Case of the Plane

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High Dimensional Probability VIII

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This is the first part of the notes with preliminary remarks on the plane isoperimetric inequality and its applications to the Poincaré and Sobolev-type inequalities in dimension one. Links with informational quantities of Rényi and Fisher are briefly discussed.

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Research was partially supported by the NSF grant DMS-1855575 and by the Bzout Labex, funded by ANR, reference ANR-10-LABX-58, the Labex MME-DII funded by ANR, reference ANR-11-LBX-0023-01, and the ANR Large Stochastic Dynamic, funded by ANR, reference ANR-15-CE40-0020-03-LSD.

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Bobkov, S.G., Gozlan, N., Roberto, C., Samson, PM. (2019). Polar Isoperimetry. I: The Case of the Plane. In: Gozlan, N., Latała, R., Lounici, K., Madiman, M. (eds) High Dimensional Probability VIII. Progress in Probability, vol 74. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26391-1_3

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