The variance conjecture on hyperplane projections of the _p^n balls

DOI10.4171/RMI/1007MaRDI QIDQ1645299zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors David Alonso-Gutiérrez, Jesús Bastero

Publication date 28 June 2018

Published in Revista Matemática Iberoamericana (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.04023

zbMATH Keywords

convex bodieshyperplane projectionslog-concave random vectorsvariance conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local theory of Banach spaces (46B07) Probabilistic methods in Banach space theory (46B09) Convexity and finite-dimensional Banach spaces (including special norms, zonoids, etc.) (aspects of convex geometry) (52A21) Asymptotic theory of convex bodies (52A23)

Abstract: We show that for any $1leqpleqinfty$, the family of random vectors uniformly distributed on hyperplane projections of the unit ball of $el{l}_p^n$ verify the variance conjecture ${\displaystyle }$ extrm{Var},|X|^2leq Cmax_{xiin S^{n-1}}mathbb{E}langle X,xi angle^2mathbb{E}|X|^2, ${\displaystyle }$ where $C$ depends on $p$ but not on the dimension $n$ or the hyperplane. We will 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 $el{l}_p^n$-ball verify the variance conjecture.

Review text

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.

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