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Inequalities for means of chords, with application to isoperimetric problems pavel exnera,b, evans m. Isoperimetric inequality encyclopedia of mathematics. In particular, in all examples considered, we find that for fixed volume of the observable universe, the entropy is increased by adding black holes. Isoperimetric inequalities in mathematical physics szego g. The isoperimetric inequality 1 is valid also for a twodimensional manifold of bounded curvature, which is a more general type of manifold than a riemannian manifold.
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