Sumset Estimates in Convex Geometry

Abstract

Abstract Sumset estimates, which provide bounds on the cardinality of sumsets of finite sets in a group, form an essential part of the toolkit of additive combinatorics. In recent years, probabilistic or entropic forms of many of these inequalities were introduced. We study analogues of these sumset estimates in the context of convex geometry and the Lebesgue measure on ${\mathbb{R}}^{n}$. First, we observe that, with respect to Minkowski summation, volume is supermodular to arbitrary order on the space of convex bodies. Second, we explore sharp constants in the convex geometry analogues of variants of the Plünnecke-Ruzsa inequalities. In the last section of the paper, we provide connections of these inequalities to the classical Rogers-Shephard inequality.