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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 iii Paper 112 1 ii Solution by
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First take nonempty bounded open sets . Their Minkowski sum is open and hence a Lebesgue measurable set. Apply the Prékopa–Leindler inequality to their indicator functions and the indicator function of . This gives the multiplicative formTo obtain the usual additive Brunn–Minkowski inequality, put , , and . Both normalized open sets have Lebesgue measure one. For ,The multiplicative bound and the scaling rule for Lebesgue measure implyReplacing by and using continuity from below extends this form of the Brunn–Minkowski inequality to all nonempty open sets, including those of infinite Lebesgue measure. This open-set form is sufficient here and avoids any measurability qualification for sums of arbitrary measurable sets.
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