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We prove the following sparse approximation result for polytopes. Assume that $Q$ is a polytope in John's position. Then there exist at most $2d$ vertices of $Q$ whose convex hull $Q'$ satisfies $Q \subseteq - 2d^2 \, Q'$. As a consequence,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Víctor Hugo Almendra-Hernández , Gergely Ambrus , Matthew Kendall

Here we show that any n-dimensional centrally symmetric convex body K has an n-dimensional perturbation T which is convex and centrally symmetric, such that the isotropic constant of T is universally bounded. T is close to K in the sense…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 B. Klartag

We prove a strong law of large numbers for random sets with bounded and closed values contained in an arbitrary (not necessarily separable) Banach space. We make use of a notion of convergence of sets introduced by Fisher, which is stronger…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-10-31 Francesco S. de Blasi , Luca Tomassini

We study the approximation of arbitrary distributions $P$ on $d$-dimensional space by distributions with log-concave density. Approximation means minimizing a Kullback--Leibler-type functional. We show that such an approximation exists if…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-10-17 Lutz Duembgen , Richard Samworth , Dominic Schuhmacher

We present a new random walk for uniformly sampling high-dimensional convex bodies. It achieves state-of-the-art runtime complexity with stronger guarantees on the output than previously known, namely in R\'enyi divergence (which implies…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yunbum Kook , Santosh S. Vempala , Matthew S. Zhang

We consider the problem of lower bounding a generalized Minkowski measure of subsets of a convex body with a log-concave probability measure, conditioned on the set size. A bound is given in terms of diameter and set size, which is sharp…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ravi Montenegro

In this note we examine the volume of the convex hull of two congruent copies of a convex body in Euclidean $n$-space, under some subsets of the isometry group of the space. We prove inequalities for this volume if the two bodies are…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-06-19 Ákos G. Horváth , Z. Lángi

We examine how the measure and the number of vertices of the convex hull of a random sample of $n$ points from an arbitrary probability measure in $\mathbf{R}^d$ relates to the wet part of that measure. This extends classical results for…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Imre Bárány , Matthieu Fradelizi , Xavier Goaoc , Alfredo Hubard , Günter Rote

We provide a reformulation of the hyperplane conjecture (the slicing problem) in terms of the floating body and give upper and lower bounds on the logarithmic Hausdorff distance between an arbitrary convex body $K\subset \mathbb{R}^{d}$\…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2011-02-22 Daniel Fresen

For the task of sampling from a density $\pi \propto \exp(-V)$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$, where $V$ is possibly non-convex but $L$-gradient Lipschitz, we prove that averaged Langevin Monte Carlo outputs a sample with $\varepsilon$-relative Fisher…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-11 Krishnakumar Balasubramanian , Sinho Chewi , Murat A. Erdogdu , Adil Salim , Matthew Zhang

We observe that the distribution of the eigenvalues of an $N$-by-$N$ GUE random matrix is log-concave on $\mathbb{R}^N$, and that the same is true for the law of a single gap between two consecutive eigenvalues. We use this observation to…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Samuel G. G. Johnston

We derive explicit formulae for the expected volume and the expected number of facets of the convex hull of several multidimensional Gaussian random walks in terms of the Gaussian persistence probabilities. Special cases include the already…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-12-25 Julien Randon-Furling , Dmitry Zaporozhets

We show that the non-symmetric Banach-Mazur distance between two convex bodies $K_1, K_2 \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ satisfies $$ d_{BM}(K_1, K_2) \leq C n \cdot \log^{\alpha} (n+1), $$ for universal constants $C, \alpha > 0$. This improves…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Pierre Bizeul , Boaz Klartag

We consider a planar viscous shock for a scalar viscous conservation law with a strictly convex flux in multi-dimensional setting, where the transversal direction is periodic. We first show the contraction property for any solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-20 Moon-Jin Kang , HyeonSeop Oh

The random polytope $K_n$, defined as the convex hull of $n$ points chosen uniformly at random on the boundary of a smooth convex body, is considered. Proofs for lower and upper variance bounds, strong laws of large numbers and central…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-06-12 Nicola Turchi , Florian Wespi

We derive new explicit bounds for the total variation distance between two convolution products of $n$ probability distributions, one of which having identical convolution factors. Approximations by finite signed measures of arbitrary order…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-11-06 Bero Roos

We prove that for any log-concave random vector $X$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with mean zero and identity covariance, $$ \mathbb{E} (|X| - \sqrt{n})^2 \leq C $$ where $C > 0$ is a universal constant. Thus, most of the mass of the random vector $X$…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Boaz Klartag , Joseph Lehec

Let $K$ be a convex body in $\R^d$, let $j\in\{1, ..., d-1\}$, and let $\varrho$ be a positive and continuous probability density function with respect to the $(d-1)$-dimensional Hausdorff measure on the boundary $\partial K$ of $K$. Denote…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-07 Károly J. Böröczky , Ferenc Fodor , Daniel Hug

Polyhedral-type approximations of convex-like domains in $\mathbb{C}^d$ have been considered recently by the second author. In particular, the decay rate of the error in optimal volume approximation as a function of the number of facets has…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-24 Siva Athreya , Purvi Gupta , D. Yogeshwaran

We partly extend the localisation technique from convex geometry to the multiple constraints setting. For a given $1$-Lipschitz map $u\colon\mathbb{R}^n\to\mathbb{R}^m$, $m\leq n$, we define and prove the existence of a partition of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Krzysztof J. Ciosmak