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Eilenberg's inequality is a mathematical inequality for Lipschitz-continuous functions.

Let ƒ : X → Y be a Lipschitz-continuous function between separable metric spaces whose Lipschitz constant is denoted by Lip ƒ. Then, Eilenberg's inequality states that

$\int _{Y}^{*}H_{m-n}(A\cap f^{-1}(y))\,dH_{n}(y)\leq {\frac {v_{m-n}v_{n}}{v_{m}}}({\text{Lip }}f)^{n}H_{m}(A),$

for any A ⊂ X and all 0 ≤ n ≤ m, where

• the asterisk denotes the upper Lebesgue integral,
• v_n is the volume of the unit ball in Rⁿ,
• H_n is the n-dimensional Hausdorff measure.

References

• Yu. D. Burago and V. A. Zalgaller, Geometric inequalities. Translated from the Russian by A. B. Sosinskiĭ. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1988. ISBN 3-540-13615-0.