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The variance conjecture on hyperplane projections of l_p^n balls

Functional Analysis 2016-10-14 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We show that for any 1p1\leq p\leq\infty, the family of random vectors uniformly distributed on hyperplane projections of the unit ball of pn\ell_p^n verify the variance conjecture VarX2CmaxξSn1EX,ξ2EX2, \textrm{Var}\,|X|^2\leq C\max_{\xi\in S^{n-1}}\mathbb{E}\langle X,\xi\rangle^2\mathbb{E}|X|^2, where CC depends on pp but not on the dimension nn or the hyperplane. We will also show a general result relating the variance conjecture for a random vector uniformly distributed on an isotropic convex body and the variance conjecture for a random vector uniformly distributed on any Steiner symmetrization of it. As a consequence we will have that the class of random vectors uniformly distributed on any Steiner symmetrization of an pn\ell_p^n-ball verify the variance conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.1610.04023,
  title  = {The variance conjecture on hyperplane projections of l_p^n balls},
  author = {David Alonso-Gutiérrez and Jesús Bastero},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.04023},
  year   = {2016}
}