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

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Abstract: We show 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 emph{arbitrarily slow} uniform tail-decay, are all quantitatively equivalent (to within universal constants, independent of the dimension). This substantially extends previous results of Maz'ya, Cheeger, Gromov--Milman, Buser and Ledoux. As an application, we conclude a sharp quantitative stability result for the spectral gap of convex domains under convex perturbations which preserve volume (up to constants) and under maps which are ``on-average Lipschitz. We also provide a new characterization (up to constants) of the spectral gap of a convex domain, as one over the square of the average distance from the ``worst subset having half the measure of the domain. In addition, we easily recover and extend many previously known lower bounds on the spectral gap of convex domains, due to Payne--Weinberger, Li--Yau, Kannan--Lov'asz--Simonovits, Bobkov and Sodin. The proof involves estimates on the diffusion semi-group following Bakry--Ledoux and a result from Riemannian Geometry on the concavity of the isoperimetric profile. Our results extend to the more general setting of Riemannian manifolds with density which satisfy the CD(0,infty) curvature-dimension condition of Bakry-'Emery.



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