{"id":357464,"date":"2017-01-25T10:27:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T18:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-research-item&#038;p=357464"},"modified":"2018-10-16T19:59:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T02:59:32","slug":"isoperimetric-inequality-wiener-sausage","status":"publish","type":"msr-research-item","link":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/publication\/isoperimetric-inequality-wiener-sausage\/","title":{"rendered":"An Isoperimetric Inequality For The Wiener Sausage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let <span id=\"MathJax-Element-1-Frame\" class=\"MathJax\" tabindex=\"0\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-1\" class=\"math\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-2\" class=\"mrow\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-3\" class=\"mo\">(<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-4\" class=\"mi\">\u03be<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-5\" class=\"mo\">(<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-6\" class=\"mi\">s<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-7\" class=\"mo\">)<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-8\" class=\"msubsup\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-9\" class=\"mo\">)<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-10\" class=\"texatom\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-11\" class=\"mrow\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-12\" class=\"mi\">s<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-13\" class=\"mo\">\u2265<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-14\" class=\"mn\">0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> be a standard Brownian motion in <span id=\"MathJax-Element-2-Frame\" class=\"MathJax\" tabindex=\"0\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-15\" class=\"math\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-16\" class=\"mrow\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-17\" class=\"mi\">d<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-18\" class=\"mo\">\u2265<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-19\" class=\"mn\">1<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> dimensions and let <span id=\"MathJax-Element-3-Frame\" class=\"MathJax\" tabindex=\"0\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-20\" class=\"math\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-21\" class=\"mrow\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-22\" class=\"mo\">(<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-23\" class=\"msubsup\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-24\" class=\"mi\">D<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-25\" class=\"mi\">s<\/span><\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-26\" class=\"msubsup\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-27\" class=\"mo\">)<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-28\" class=\"texatom\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-29\" class=\"mrow\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-30\" class=\"mi\">s<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-31\" class=\"mo\">\u2265<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-32\" class=\"mn\">0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> be a collection of open sets in <span id=\"MathJax-Element-4-Frame\" class=\"MathJax\" tabindex=\"0\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-33\" class=\"math\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-34\" class=\"noError\">$\\R^d$<\/span><\/span><\/span>. For each <span id=\"MathJax-Element-5-Frame\" class=\"MathJax\" tabindex=\"0\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-35\" class=\"math\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-36\" class=\"mrow\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-37\" class=\"mi\">s<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>, let <span id=\"MathJax-Element-6-Frame\" class=\"MathJax\" tabindex=\"0\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-38\" class=\"math\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-39\" class=\"mrow\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-40\" class=\"msubsup\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-41\" class=\"mi\">B<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-42\" class=\"mi\">s<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> be a ball centered at 0 with <span id=\"MathJax-Element-7-Frame\" class=\"MathJax\" tabindex=\"0\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-43\" class=\"math\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-44\" class=\"noError\">$\\vol(B_s) = \\vol(D_s)$<\/span><\/span><\/span>. We show that <span id=\"MathJax-Element-8-Frame\" class=\"MathJax\" tabindex=\"0\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-45\" class=\"math\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-46\" class=\"noError\">$\\E[\\vol(\\cup_{s \\leq t}(\\xi(s) + D_s))] \\geq \\E[\\vol(\\cup_{s \\leq t}(\\xi(s) + B_s))]$<\/span><\/span><\/span>, for all <span id=\"MathJax-Element-9-Frame\" class=\"MathJax\" tabindex=\"0\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-47\" class=\"math\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-48\" class=\"mrow\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-49\" class=\"mi\">t<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>. In particular, this implies that the expected volume of the Wiener sausage increases when a drift is added to the Brownian motion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let (\u03be(s))s\u22650 be a standard Brownian motion in d\u22651 dimensions and let (Ds)s\u22650 be a collection of open sets in $\\R^d$. For each s, let Bs be a ball centered at 0 with $\\vol(B_s) = \\vol(D_s)$. We show that $\\E[\\vol(\\cup_{s \\leq t}(\\xi(s) + D_s))] \\geq \\E[\\vol(\\cup_{s \\leq t}(\\xi(s) + B_s))]$, for all t. In particular, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","msr-author-ordering":null,"msr_publishername":"Cornell University Library","msr_publisher_other":"","msr_booktitle":"","msr_chapter":"","msr_edition":"","msr_editors":"","msr_how_published":"","msr_isbn":"","msr_issue":"","msr_journal":"","msr_number":"","msr_organization":"","msr_pages_string":"","msr_page_range_start":"","msr_page_range_end":"","msr_series":"","msr_volume":"","msr_copyright":"","msr_conference_name":"","msr_doi":"","msr_arxiv_id":"","msr_s2_paper_id":"","msr_mag_id":"","msr_pubmed_id":"","msr_other_authors":"","msr_other_contributors":"","msr_speaker":"","msr_award":"","msr_affiliation":"","msr_institution":"","msr_host":"","msr_version":"","msr_duration":"","msr_original_fields_of_study":"","msr_release_tracker_id":"","msr_s2_match_type":"","msr_citation_count_updated":"","msr_published_date":"2011-03-30","msr_highlight_text":"","msr_notes":"","msr_longbiography":"","msr_publicationurl":"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1103.6059","msr_external_url":"","msr_secondary_video_url":"","msr_conference_url":"","msr_journal_url":"","msr_s2_pdf_url":"","msr_year":0,"msr_citation_count":0,"msr_influential_citations":0,"msr_reference_count":0,"msr_s2_match_confidence":0,"msr_microsoftintellectualproperty":true,"msr_s2_open_access":false,"msr_s2_author_ids":[],"msr_pub_ids":[],"msr_hide_image_in_river":0,"footnotes":""},"msr-research-highlight":[],"research-area":[13546],"msr-publication-type":[193715],"msr-publisher":[],"msr-focus-area":[],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-post-option":[],"msr-field-of-study":[],"msr-conference":[],"msr-journal":[],"msr-impact-theme":[],"msr-pillar":[],"class_list":["post-357464","msr-research-item","type-msr-research-item","status-publish","hentry","msr-research-area-computational-sciences-mathematics","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_publishername":"Cornell University Library","msr_edition":"","msr_affiliation":"","msr_published_date":"2011-03-30","msr_host":"","msr_duration":"","msr_version":"","msr_speaker":"","msr_other_contributors":"","msr_booktitle":"","msr_pages_string":"","msr_chapter":"","msr_isbn":"","msr_journal":"","msr_volume":"","msr_number":"","msr_editors":"","msr_series":"","msr_issue":"","msr_organization":"","msr_how_published":"","msr_notes":"","msr_highlight_text":"","msr_release_tracker_id":"","msr_original_fields_of_study":"","msr_download_urls":"","msr_external_url":"","msr_secondary_video_url":"","msr_longbiography":"","msr_microsoftintellectualproperty":1,"msr_main_download":"357467","msr_publicationurl":"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1103.6059","msr_doi":"","msr_publication_uploader":[{"type":"file","title":"1103.6059v1","viewUrl":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1103.6059v1.pdf","id":357467,"label_id":0},{"type":"url","title":"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1103.6059","viewUrl":false,"id":false,"label_id":0}],"msr_related_uploader":"","msr_citation_count":0,"msr_citation_count_updated":"","msr_s2_paper_id":"","msr_influential_citations":0,"msr_reference_count":0,"msr_arxiv_id":"","msr_s2_author_ids":[],"msr_s2_open_access":false,"msr_s2_pdf_url":null,"msr_attachments":[{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1103.6059"}],"msr-author-ordering":[{"type":"user_nicename","value":"peres","user_id":33234,"rest_url":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/microsoft-research\/v1\/researchers?person=peres"},{"type":"text","value":"Perla Sousi","user_id":0,"rest_url":false}],"msr_impact_theme":[],"msr_research_lab":[],"msr_event":[],"msr_group":[],"msr_project":[],"publication":[],"video":[],"msr-tool":[],"msr_publication_type":"article","related_content":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-research-item\/357464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-research-item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/msr-research-item"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-research-item\/357464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416777,"href":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-research-item\/357464\/revisions\/416777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"msr-research-highlight","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-research-highlight?post=357464"},{"taxonomy":"msr-research-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-area?post=357464"},{"taxonomy":"msr-publication-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-publication-type?post=357464"},{"taxonomy":"msr-publisher","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-publisher?post=357464"},{"taxonomy":"msr-focus-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-focus-area?post=357464"},{"taxonomy":"msr-locale","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-locale?post=357464"},{"taxonomy":"msr-post-option","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-post-option?post=357464"},{"taxonomy":"msr-field-of-study","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-field-of-study?post=357464"},{"taxonomy":"msr-conference","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-conference?post=357464"},{"taxonomy":"msr-journal","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-journal?post=357464"},{"taxonomy":"msr-impact-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-impact-theme?post=357464"},{"taxonomy":"msr-pillar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-pillar?post=357464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}