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Polynomial bounds for large Bernoulli sections of $\ell_1^N$

Functional Analysis 2007-08-14 v2 Mathematical Physics Metric Geometry math.MP

Abstract

We prove a quantitative version of the bound on the smallest singular value of a Bernoulli covariance matrix (due to Bai and Yin). Then we use this bound, together with several recent developments, to show that the distance from a random (1-delta) n - dimensional section of ell_1^n, realised as an image of a sign matrix, to an Euclidean ball is polynomial in 1/delta (and independent of n), with high probability.

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@article{arxiv.math/0601369,
  title  = {Polynomial bounds for large Bernoulli sections of $\ell_1^N$},
  author = {Shiri Artstein-Avidan and Omer Friedland and Vitali Milman and Sasha Sodin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0601369},
  year   = {2007}
}

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22 pages