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On the $\ell_0$ Isoperimetric Coefficient of Measurable Sets

Metric Geometry 2025-07-28 v3 Computational Geometry

Abstract

In this paper we prove that the 0\ell_0 isoperimetric coefficient for any axis-aligned cubes, ψC\psi_{\mathcal{C}}, is Θ(n1/2)\Theta(n^{-1/2}) and that the isoperimetric coefficient for any measurable body KK, ψK\psi_K, is of order O(n1/2)O(n^{-1/2}). As a corollary we deduce that axis-aligned cubes essentially "maximize" the 0\ell_0 isoperimetric coefficient: There exists a positive constant q>0q > 0 such that ψKqψC\psi_K \leq q \cdot \psi_{\mathcal{C}}, whenever C\mathcal{C} is an axis-aligned cube and KK is any measurable set. Lastly, we give immediate applications of our results to the mixing time of Coordinate-Hit-and-Run for sampling points uniformly from convex bodies.

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@article{arxiv.2312.00015,
  title  = {On the $\ell_0$ Isoperimetric Coefficient of Measurable Sets},
  author = {Manuel Fernandez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.00015},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Revised and accepted to Discrete and Computational Geometry