A new look at random projections of the cube and general product measures

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Abstract: A strong law of large numbers for d-dimensional random projections of the n-dimensional cube is derived. It shows that with respect to the Hausdorff distance a properly normalized random projection of [1,1]n onto mathbbRd almost surely converges to a centered d-dimensional Euclidean ball of radius sqrt2/pi, as noinfty. For every point inside this ball we determine the asymptotic number of vertices and the volume of the part of the cube projected `close' to this point. Moreover, large deviations for random projections of general product measures are studied. Let uotimesn be the n-fold product measure of a Borel probability measure u on mathbbR, and let I be uniformly distributed on the Stiefel manifold of orthogonal d-frames in mathbbRn. It is shown that the sequence of random measures uotimesncirc(n1/2I)1, ninmathbbN, satisfies a large deviations principle with probability 1. The rate function is explicitly identified in terms of the moment generating function of u. At the heart of the proofs lies a transition trick which allows to replace the uniform projection by the Gaussian one. A number of concrete examples are discussed as well, including the uniform distributions on the cube [1,1]n and the discrete cube 1,1n as a special cases.



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