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On the volume of non-central sections of a cube

Metric Geometry 2019-11-20 v2 Probability

Abstract

Let QnQ_n be the cube of side length one centered at the origin in Rn\mathbb{R}^n, and let FF be an affine (nd)(n-d)-dimensional subspace of Rn\mathbb{R}^n having distance to the origin less than or equal to 12\frac 1 2, where 0<d<n0<d<n. We show that the (nd)(n-d)-dimensional volume of the section QnFQ_n \cap F is bounded below by a value c(d)c(d) depending only on the codimension dd but not on the ambient dimension nn or a particular subspace FF. In the case of hyperplanes, d=1d=1, we show that c(1)=117c(1) = \frac{1}{17} is a possible choice. We also consider a complex analogue of this problem for a hyperplane section of the polydisc.

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@article{arxiv.1908.09358,
  title  = {On the volume of non-central sections of a cube},
  author = {Hermann König and Mark Rudelson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.09358},
  year   = {2019}
}