{ "id": "1605.08603", "version": "v1", "published": "2016-05-27T12:20:31.000Z", "updated": "2016-05-27T12:20:31.000Z", "title": "Behaviour of the Brascamp--Lieb constant", "authors": [ "Jonathan Bennett", "Neal Bez", "Michael G. Cowling", "Taryn C. Flock" ], "comment": "9 pages", "categories": [ "math.CA" ], "abstract": "Recent progress in multilinear harmonic analysis naturally raises questions about the local behaviour of the best constant (or bound) in the general Brascamp--Lieb inequality as a function of the underlying linear transformations. In this paper we prove that this constant is continuous, but is not in general differentiable.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2016-05-27T12:20:31.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "brascamp-lieb constant", "multilinear harmonic analysis", "general brascamp-lieb inequality", "raises questions", "local behaviour" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 9, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }