Robustness of the Gaussian concentration inequality and the Brunn–Minkowski inequality

Abstract

We provide a sharp quantitative version of the Gaussian concentration inequality: for every r > 0, the difference between the measure of the r-enlargement of a given set and the r-enlargement of a half-space controls the square of the measure of the symmetric difference between the set and a suitable half-space. We also prove a similar estimate in the Euclidean setting for the enlargement with a general convex set. This is equivalent to the stability of the Brunn-Minkowski inequality for the Minkowski sum between a convex set and a generic one.