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The work of Gantert, Kim, and Ramanan [Large deviations for random projections of $\ell^p$ balls, Ann. Probab. 45 (6B), 2017] has initiated and inspired a new direction of research in the asymptotic theory of geometric functional analysis.…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-08 Joscha Prochno

A method is introduced for studying large deviations in the context of statistical physics of disordered systems. The approach, based on an extension of the cavity method to atypical realizations of the quenched disorder, allows us to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Olivier Rivoire

In the present paper, the following convexity principle is proved: any closed convex multifunction, which is metrically regular in a certain uniform sense near a given point, carries small balls centered at that point to convex sets, even…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-13 Amos Uderzo

For a $d$-dimensional random vector $X$, let $p_{n, X}(\theta)$ be the probability that the convex hull of $n$ independent copies of $X$ contains a given point $\theta$. We provide several sharp inequalities regarding $p_{n, X}(\theta)$ and…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-11 Satoshi Hayakawa , Terry Lyons , Harald Oberhauser

In this short note, we hope to give a rapid induction for non-experts into the world of Differential Harnack inequalities, which have been so influential in geometric analysis and probability theory over the past few decades. At the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-09 Sebastian Helmensdorfer , Peter Topping

Existence of nicely bounded sections of two symmetric convex bodies K and L implies that the intersection of random rotations of K and L is nicely bounded. For L = subspace, this main result immediately yields the unexpected phenomenon: "If…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-23 Roman Vershynin

We consider high-dimensional estimation problems where the number of parameters diverges with the sample size. General conditions are established for consistency, uniqueness, and asymptotic normality in both unpenalized and penalized…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Jana Gauss , Thomas Nagler

This article belongs to the area of geometric tomography, which is the study of geometric properties of solids based on data about their sections and projections. We describe a new direction in geometric tomography where different…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-10 Apostolos Giannopoulos , Alexander Koldobsky , Artem Zvavitch

The geometry of unit $N$-dimensional $\ell_{p}$ balls has been intensively investigated in the past decades. A particular topic of interest has been the study of the asymptotics of their projections. Apart from their intrinsic interest,…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-10-22 Franck Barthe , Fabrice Gamboa , Li-Vang Lozada-Chang , Alain Rouault

The famous Minkowski inequality provides a sharp lower bound for the mixed volume $V(K,M[n-1])$ of two convex bodies $K,M\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ in terms of powers of the volumes of the individual bodies $K$ and $M$. The special case where $K$…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-04 Daniel Hug , Károly Böröczky

The isoperimetric problem is a classic topic in geometric measure theory, yet critical questions regarding the characterization of optimal solutions -- even asymptotically optimal ones -- remain largely unresolved. In this paper, we…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Lei Yu

Random matrices have played an important role in many fields including machine learning, quantum information theory and optimization. One of the main research focuses is on the deviation inequalities for eigenvalues of random matrices.…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-18 Xianjie Gao , Chao Zhang , Hongwei Zhang

This note contains two types of small ball estimates for random vectors in finite dimensional spaces equipped with a quasi-norm. In the first part, we obtain bounds for the small ball probability of random vectors under some smoothness…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-07-30 Omer Friedland , Ohad Giladi , Olivier Guédon

We consider two well-known problems: upper bounding the volume of lower dimensional ellipsoids contained in convex bodies given their John ellipsoid, and lower bounding the volume of ellipsoids containing projections of convex bodies given…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-03 René Brandenberg , Florian Grundbacher

The variance conjecture in Asymptotic Convex Geometry stipulates that the Euclidean norm of a random vector uniformly distributed in a (properly normalised) high-dimensional convex body $K\subset {\mathbb R}^n$ satisfies a Poincar\'e-type…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Beatrice-Helen Vritsiou

The Small Ball Inequality is a conjectural lower bound on sums the L-infinity norm of sums of Haar functions supported on dyadic rectangles of a fixed volume in the unit cube. The conjecture is fundamental to questions in discrepancy…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2012-05-04 Dmitriy Bilyk , Michael T. Lacey , Ioannis Parissis , Armen Vagharshakyan

In this survey, we discuss volumetric and combinatorial results concerning (mostly finite) intersections or unions of balls (mostly of equal radii) in the $d$-dimensional real vector space, mostly equipped with the Euclidean norm. Our first…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Károly Bezdek , Zsolt Lángi , Márton Naszódi

We prove a Kahane-Khinchin type result with a few random vectors, which are distributed independently with respect to an arbitrary log-concave probability measure on $\R^n$. This is an application of small ball estimate and Chernoff's…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-09-10 Omer Friedland

Given an Euclidean space, this paper elucidates the topological link between the partial derivatives of the Minkowski functional associated to a set (assumed to be compact, convex, with a differentiable boundary and a non-empty interior)…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-18 Gustave Bainier , Benoit Marx , Jean-Christophe Ponsart

We revisit an ingenious argument of K. Ball to provide sharp estimates for the volume of sections of a convex body in John's position. Our technique combines the geometric Brascamp-Lieb inequality with a generalised Parseval-type identity.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-31 David Alonso-Gutiérrez , Silouanos Brazitikos , Giorgos Chasapis