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"Entropy" proof of Brunn-Minkowski Inequality?

I read in an information theory textbook the Brunn-Minkowski inequality follows from the Entropy Power inequality. The first one says that if $A,B$ are convex polygons in $\mathbb{R}^d$, then $$ m(...
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Brascamp-Lieb inequalities on the sphere

In the paper [CLL], Carlen, Lieb, and Loss demonstrate a version of the Young inequality on the sphere $S^{N-1}$ in $\mathbb{R}^N$. For positive functions $f_j$ on $[-1,1]$, the following bound holds:...
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