The variance conjecture on hyperplane projections of the \(\ell_p^n\) balls (Q1645299)

Summary: We show that for any \(1 \leq p \leq \infty\), the family of random vectors uniformly distributed on hyperplane projections of the unit ball of \(\ell_p^n\) verify the variance conjecture \[ \mathrm{Var} |X|^2 \leq C \max \limits_{\xi \in S^{n-1}}\mathbb{E}\langle X,\xi\rangle^2\, \mathbb{E}|X|^2, \] where \(C\) depends on \(p\) but not on the dimension \(n\) or the hyperplane. We also show a general result relating the variance conjecture for a random vector uniformly distributed on an isotropic convex body and the variance conjecture for a random vector uniformly distributed on any Steiner symmetrization of it. As a consequence we will have that the class of random vectors uniformly distributed on any Steiner symmetrization of an \(\ell_p^n\)-ball verify the variance conjecture.