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Robust dimension free isoperimetry in Gaussian space

Probability 2015-06-05 v3

Abstract

We prove the first robust dimension free isoperimetric result for the standard Gaussian measure γn\gamma_n and the corresponding boundary measure γn+\gamma_n^+ in Rn\mathbb {R}^n. The main result in the theory of Gaussian isoperimetry (proven in the 1970s by Sudakov and Tsirelson, and independently by Borell) states that if γn(A)=1/2\gamma_n(A)=1/2 then the surface area of AA is bounded by the surface area of a half-space with the same measure, γn+(A)(2π)1/2\gamma_n^+(A)\leq(2\pi)^{-1/2}. Our results imply in particular that if ARnA\subset \mathbb {R}^n satisfies γn(A)=1/2\gamma_n(A)=1/2 and γn+(A)(2π)1/2+δ\gamma_n^+(A)\leq(2\pi)^{-1/2}+\delta then there exists a half-space BRnB\subset \mathbb {R}^n such that γn(AΔB)Clog1/2(1/δ)\gamma_n(A\Delta B)\leq C\smash{\log^{-1/2}}(1/\delta) for an absolute constant CC. Since the Gaussian isoperimetric result was established, only recently a robust version of the Gaussian isoperimetric result was obtained by Cianchi et al., who showed that γn(AΔB)C(n)δ\gamma_n(A\Delta B)\le C(n)\sqrt{\delta} for some function C(n)C(n) with no effective bounds. Compared to the results of Cianchi et al., our results have optimal (i.e., no) dependence on the dimension, but worse dependence on δ \delta.

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@article{arxiv.1202.4124,
  title  = {Robust dimension free isoperimetry in Gaussian space},
  author = {Elchanan Mossel and Joe Neeman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.4124},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/13-AOP860 in the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)

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