Robust dimension free isoperimetry in Gaussian space

By Elchanan Mossel, Joe Neeman. 2012

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We prove the first robust dimension free isoperimetric result for the standard Gaussian measure $\gamma_n$ and the corresponding boundary measure $\gamma_n^+$ in $\mathbb {R}^n$. The main result in the theory of Gaussian isoperimetry (proven in the 1970s by Sudakov and Tsirelson, and independently by Borell) states that if $\gamma_n(A)=1/2$ then the surface area of $A$ is bounded by the surface area of a half-space with the same measure, $\gamma_n^+(A)\leq(2\pi)^{-1/2}$. Our results imply in particular that if $A\subset \mathbb {R}^n$ satisfies $\gamma_n(A)=1/2$ and $\gamma_n^+(A)\leq(2\pi)^{-1/2}+\delta$ then there exists a half-space $B\subset \mathbb {R}^n$ such that $\gamma_n(A\Delta B)\leq C\smash{\log^{-1/2}}(1/\delta)$ for an absolute constant $C$. Since the Gaussian isoperimetric result was established, only recently a robust version of the Gaussian isoperimetric result was obtained by Cianchi et al., who showed that $\gamma_n(A\Delta B)\le C(n)\sqrt{\delta}$ for some function $C(n)$ with no effective bounds. Compared to the results of Cianchi et al., our results have optimal (i.e., no) dependence on the dimension, but worse dependence on $ \delta$.

Subfields: Applied Mathematics, Statistics and Probability

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In Applied Mathematics

  1. Jean Dolbeault
  2. Elchanan Mossel
  3. Joe Neeman
  4. N. Fusco
  5. Giuseppe Toscani
  6. Cédric Villani
  7. José Antonio Carrillo
  8. Alessio Figalli

In Statistics and Probability

  1. Joe Neeman
  2. N. Fusco
  3. Jean Dolbeault
  4. Elchanan Mossel
  5. Giuseppe Toscani
  6. Cédric Villani

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