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The classical Loomis-Whitney inequality and the uniform cover inequality of Bollob\'{a}s and Thomason provide lower bounds for the volume of a compact set in terms of its lower dimensional coordinate projections. We provide further…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-14 S. Brazitikos , A. Giannopoulos , D-M. Liakopoulos

Building on the inequalities for homogeneous tetrahedral polynomials in independent Gaussian variables due to R. Lata{\l}a we provide a concentration inequality for non-necessarily Lipschitz functions $f\colon \R^n \to \R$ with bounded…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-04-09 Radosław Adamczak , Paweł Wolff

The convex hull generated by the restriction to the unit ball of a stationary Poisson point process in the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space is considered. By establishing sharp bounds on cumulants, exponential estimates for large deviation…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-12-15 Julian Grote , Christoph Thaele

A lower bound on the probability $P(0<X<\delta)$ for all real $\delta>0$ and all random variables $X$ with log-concave p.d.f.'s such that $EX=0$ and $EX^2=1$ is obtained.

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Iosif Pinelis

This article considers the question of how much of the mass of an element in a Paley-Wiener space can be concentracted on a given set. We seek bounds in terms of relative densities of the given set. We extend a result of Donoho and Logan…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-10-27 Syed Husain , Friedrich Littmann

This note aims at presenting several new theoretical results for the compound Poisson point process, which follows the work of Zhang \emph{et al.} [Insurance~Math.~Econom.~59(2014), 325-336]. The first part provides a new characterization…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-10 Huiming Zhang , Xiaoxu Wu

The intrinsic volumes of a convex cone are geometric functionals that return basic structural information about the cone. Recent research has demonstrated that conic intrinsic volumes are valuable for understanding the behavior of random…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-14 Michael B. McCoy , Joel A. Tropp

Langevin diffusions are rapidly convergent under appropriate functional inequality assumptions. Hence, it is natural to expect that with additional smoothness conditions to handle the discretization errors, their discretizations like the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-21 Alireza Mousavi-Hosseini , Tyler Farghly , Ye He , Krishnakumar Balasubramanian , Murat A. Erdogdu

We study upper bounds on the number of lattice points for convex bodies having their centroid at the origin. For the family of simplices as well as in the planar case we obtain best possible results. For arbitrary convex bodies we provide…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-26 Sören Lennart Berg , Martin Henk

We prove several different anti-concentration inequalities for functions of independent Bernoulli-distributed random variables. First, motivated by a conjecture of Alon, Hefetz, Krivelevich and Tyomkyn, we prove some "Poisson-type"…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Jacob Fox , Matthew Kwan , Lisa Sauermann

We study various generalizations of concentration of measure on the unit sphere, in particular by means of log-Sobolev inequalities. First, we show Sudakov-type concentration results and local semicircular laws for weighted random matrices.…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-09 Friedrich Götze , Holger Sambale

The goal of this paper is to push forward the study of those properties of log-concave measures that help to estimate their Poincar{\'e} constant. First we revisit E. Milman's result [40] on the link between weak (Poincar{\'e} or…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-22 Patrick Cattiaux , Arnaud Guillin

In this paper, we study the problem of sampling from log-concave distributions supported on convex, compact sets, with a particular focus on the randomized midpoint discretization of both vanilla and kinetic Langevin diffusions in this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-27 Yifeng Yu , Lu Yu

For sampling from a log-concave density, we study implicit integrators resulting from $\theta$-method discretization of the overdamped Langevin diffusion stochastic differential equation. Theoretical and algorithmic properties of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-13 Liam Hodgkinson , Robert Salomone , Fred Roosta

In this paper we show that the family P_d of probability distributions on R^d with log-concave densities satisfies a strong continuity condition. In particular, it turns out that weak convergence within this family entails (i) convergence…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-11-26 Dominic Schuhmacher , Andre Huesler , Lutz Duembgen

An "entropy increasing to the maximum" result analogous to the entropic central limit theorem (Barron 1986; Artstein et al. 2004) is obtained in the discrete setting. This involves the thinning operation and a Poisson limit. Monotonic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-18 Yaming Yu

We show that the cone-volume measure of a convex body with centroid at the origin satisfies the subspace concentration condition. This implies, among others, a conjectured best possible inequality for the $\mathrm{U}$-functional of a convex…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-29 Károly J. Böröczky , Martin Henk

We investigate the equilibrium behavior for the decentralized cheap talk problem for real random variables and quadratic cost criteria in which an encoder and a decoder have misaligned objective functions. In prior work, it has been shown…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Ertan Kazıklı , Serkan Sarıtaş , Sinan Gezici , Tamás Linder , Serdar Yüksel

For a permutationally invariant unconditional convex body K in R^n we define a finite sequence (K_j), j = 1, ..., n of projections of the body K to the space spanned by first j vectors of the standard basis of R^n. We prove that the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-04 Piotr Nayar , Tomasz Tkocz

Log-concave sampling has witnessed remarkable algorithmic advances in recent years, but the corresponding problem of proving lower bounds for this task has remained elusive, with lower bounds previously known only in dimension one. In this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Sinho Chewi , Jaume de Dios Pont , Jerry Li , Chen Lu , Shyam Narayanan