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We show that any random vector uniformly distributed on any hyperplane projection of $B_1^n$ or $B_\infty^n$ verifies the variance conjecture $$\text{Var}|X|^2\leq C\sup_{\xi\in S^{n-1}}\E<X,\xi>^2\E|X|^2.$$ Furthermore, a random vector…

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