On the role of convexity in isoperimetry, spectral gap and concentration (Q1022337)

The author proves that for convex domains in Euclidean space, Cheeger's isoperimetric inequality, spectral gap of the Neumann Laplacian, exponential concentration of Lipschitz functions, and the a-priori weakest requirement that Lipschitz functions have arbitrarily slow uniform tail-decay, are all quantitatively equivalent (to within universal constants, independent of the dimension). As applications, some previously known results on the spectral gap of convex domains are extended.