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

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DOI10.3150/20-BEJ1303zbMATH Open1473.60063arXiv1910.02676OpenAlexW3161880064MaRDI QIDQ2040109FDOQ2040109


Authors: Zakhar Kabluchko, Joscha Prochno, Christoph Thäle Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 9 July 2021

Published in: Bernoulli (Search for Journal in Brave)

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.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02676




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