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We observe after Bayle and Rosales that the Levy-Gromov isoperimetric inequality generalizes to convex manifolds with boundary and certain singularities.
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Morgan, F. The Levy-Gromov Isoperimetric Inequality in Convex Manifolds with Boundary. J Geom Anal 18, 1053–1057 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12220-008-9047-6
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