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Total variation bound for Hadwiger's functional using Stein's method

Probability 2023-04-14 v1

Abstract

Let KK be a convex body in Rd\mathbb{R}^d. Let XKX_K be a dd-dimensional random vector distributed according to the Hadwiger-Wills density μK\mu_K associated with KK, defined as μK(x)=ceπdist2(x,K)\mu_K(x)=ce^{-\pi {\rm dist}^2(x,K)}, xRdx\in \mathbb{R}^d. Finally, let the information content HKH_K be defined as HK=dist2(XK,K)H_K={\rm dist}^2(X_K,K). The goal of this paper is to study the fluctuations of HKH_K around its expectation as the dimension dd go to infinity. Relying on Stein's method and Brascamp-Lieb inequality, we compute an explicit bound for the total variation distance between HKH_K and its Gaussian counterpart.

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@article{arxiv.2304.06443,
  title  = {Total variation bound for Hadwiger's functional using Stein's method},
  author = {Valentin Garino and Ivan Nourdin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.06443},
  year   = {2023}
}

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