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Slicing $\ell_p$-balls reloaded: stability, planar sections in $\ell_1$

Functional Analysis 2022-11-23 v2 Probability

Abstract

We show that the two-dimensional minimum-volume central section of the nn-dimensional cross-polytope is attained by the regular 2n2n-gon. We establish stability-type results for hyperplane sections of p\ell_p-balls in all the cases where the extremisers are known. Our methods are mainly probabilistic, exploring connections between negative moments of projections of random vectors uniformly distributed on convex bodies and volume of their sections.

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@article{arxiv.2109.05645,
  title  = {Slicing $\ell_p$-balls reloaded: stability, planar sections in $\ell_1$},
  author = {Giorgos Chasapis and Piotr Nayar and Tomasz Tkocz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.05645},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Final version. To appear in Ann. Probab