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 | | The classical isoperimetric property, discovered by Queen Dido shortly after her arrival at the coast of Africa in 900 B.C., states that amongst all figures of equal perimeter the circle encloses the largest area. |
 | | These inequalities and subsequent extensions by Brascamp, Lieb, and Luttinger, provide a powerful and elegant method for proving not only the classical isoperimetric inequality but also many of its physical relatives such as the Rayleigh-Faber-Krahn isoperimetric inequality for the lowest eigenvalue of the Laplacian and Pólya's isoperimetric inequalities for torsional rigidity and electrostatic capacity. |
 | | From the point of view of probability, Luttinger's inequalities are inequalities about the finite dimensional distributions of Brownian motion and raise questions concerning their validity for other stochastic processes. |
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