Thin shell implies spectral gap up to polylog via a stochastic localization scheme (Q2375769)

The isoperimetric inequality on the class of high-dimensional isotropic convex bodies is considered. The author establishes quantitative connections between two well-known open problems related to the isoperimetric inequality, the thin shell conjecture and the conjecture by \textit{R. Kannan} et al. [Discrete Comput. Geom. 13, No. 3--4, 541--559 (1995; Zbl 0824.52012)], showing that corresponding optimal bounds are equivalent up to logarithmic factors. In particular, it is demonstrated that, up to logarithmic factors, the minimal possible ratio between surface area and volume is attained on ellipsoids. Besides, it is shown that a positive answer to the thin shell conjecture would imply an optimal dependence on the dimension in a certain formulation of the Brunn-Minkowski inequality.