Concentration of measure and isoperimetric inequalities in product spaces

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DOI10.1007/BF02699376zbMATH Open0864.60013arXivmath/9406212WikidataQ92174908 ScholiaQ92174908MaRDI QIDQ1908323FDOQ1908323

Michel Talagrand

Publication date: 3 June 1997

Published in: Publications Mathématiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The concentration of measure prenomenon roughly states that, if a set A in a product OmegaN of probability spaces has measure at least one half, ``most of the points of OmegaN are ``close to A. We proceed to a systematic exploration of this phenomenon. The meaning of the word ``most is made rigorous by isoperimetric-type inequalities that bound the measure of the exceptional sets. The meaning of the work ``close is defined in three main ways, each of them giving rise to related, but different inequalities. The inequalities are all proved through a common scheme of proof. Remarkably, this simple approach not only yields qualitatively optimal results, but, in many cases, captures near optimal numerical constants. A large number of applications are given, in particular in Percolation, Geometric Probability, Probability in Banach Spaces, to demonstrate in concrete situations the extremely wide range of application of the abstract tools.


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