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Geometric Approach For Majorizing Measures

Probability 2022-08-09 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

Gaussian processes can be considered as subsets of a standard Hilbert space, but the geometric understanding that would relate the size of a set with the size of its convex hull is still lacking. In this work, we adopt a geometric approach to the majorizing measure problem by identifying the covering number relationships between a given space TT and its convex hull, represented by ThT_h. If the space TT is a closed bounded polyhedra in Rn\mathbb{R}^n, we can evaluate the volume ratio between the space TT and its convex hull obtained by the Quickhull algorithm. If the space TT is a general compact object in Rn\mathbb{R}^n with non-empty interior, we first establish a more general reverse Brunn-Minkowski inequality for nonconvex spaces which will assist us to bound the volume of ThT_h in terms of the volume of TT if ThT_h can be acquired by the finite average of the space TT with respect to the Minkowski sum. If the volume ratio between the space TT and the space ThT_h is obtained, the covering number ratio between the space TT and the space ThT_h can also be obtained which will be used to build majorizing measure inequality. For infinite dimensional space, we show that the constant LL at majorizing measure inequality may not always exist and the existence condition will depend on geometric properties of TT.

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@article{arxiv.2208.03398,
  title  = {Geometric Approach For Majorizing Measures},
  author = {Shih-Yu Chang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.03398},
  year   = {2022}
}
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