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Symmetric decreasing rearrangement

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In mathematics, the symmetric decreasing rearrangement of a function is a function which is symmetric and decreasing, and whose level sets are of the same size as those of the original function.[1]

Definition for sets

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Given a measurable set, in one defines the symmetric rearrangement of called as the ball centered at the origin, whose volume (Lebesgue measure) is the same as that of the set

An equivalent definition is where is the volume of the unit ball and where is the volume of

Definition for functions

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The rearrangement of a non-negative, measurable real-valued function whose level sets (for ) have finite measure is where denotes the indicator function of the set In words, the value of gives the height for which the radius of the symmetric rearrangement of is equal to We have the following motivation for this definition. Because the identity holds for any non-negative function the above definition is the unique definition that forces the identity to hold.

Properties

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Function and its symmetric decreasing rearrangement preserve the measure of level sets.

The function is a symmetric and decreasing function whose level sets have the same measure as the level sets of that is,

If is a function in then

The Hardy–Littlewood inequality holds, that is,

Further, the Pólya–Szegő inequality holds. This says that if and if then

The symmetric decreasing rearrangement is order preserving and decreases distance, that is, and

Applications

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The Pólya–Szegő inequality yields, in the limit case, with the isoperimetric inequality. Also, one can use some relations with harmonic functions to prove the Rayleigh–Faber–Krahn inequality.

Nonsymmetric decreasing rearrangement

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We can also define as a function on the nonnegative real numbers rather than on all of [2] Let be a σ-finite measure space, and let be a measurable function that takes only finite (that is, real) values μ-a.e. (where "-a.e." means except possibly on a set of -measure zero). We define the distribution function by the rule We can now define the decreasing rearrangment (or, sometimes, nonincreasing rearrangement) of as the function by the rule Note that this version of the decreasing rearrangement is not symmetric, as it is only defined on the nonnegative real numbers. However, it inherits many of the same properties listed above as the symmetric version, namely:

  • and are equimeasurable, that is, they have the same distribution function.
  • The Hardy-Littlewood inequality holds, that is,
  • -a.e. implies
  • for all real numbers
  • for all
  • -a.e. implies
  • for all positive real numbers
  • for all positive real numbers

The (nonsymmetric) decreasing rearrangement function arises often in the theory of rearrangement-invariant Banach function spaces. Especially important is the following:

Luxemburg Representation Theorem. Let be a rearrangement-invariant Banach function norm over a resonant measure space Then there exists a (possibly not unique) rearrangement-invariant function norm on such that for all nonnegative measurable functions which are finite-valued -a.e.

Note that the definitions of all the terminology in the above theorem (that is, Banach function norms, rearrangement-invariant Banach function spaces, and resonant measure spaces) can be found in sections 1 and 2 of Bennett and Sharpley's book (cf. the references below).

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Lieb, Elliott; Loss, Michael (2001). Analysis. Graduate Studies in Mathematics. Vol. 14 (2nd ed.). American Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0821827833.
  2. ^ Bennett, Colin; Sharpley, Robert (1988). Interpolation of Operators. ISBN 978-0-120-88730-9.