Concavity principles for weighted marginals

Abstract

We develop a general framework to study concavity properties of weighted marginals of $\beta$-concave functions on ${\mathbb{R}}^n$ via local methods. As a concrete implementation of our approach, we obtain a functional version of the dimensional Brunn-Minkowski inequality for rotationally invariant log-concave measures. Moreover, we derive a Prékopa-type concavity principle with rotationally invariant weights for even log-concave functions which encompasses the B-inequality.