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Isoperimetric inequality for $\epsilon$-expansion of a set only along a certain subspace

Let $\gamma_n$ be the standard gaussian distribution on $\mathbb R^n$. Let $V$ be a $k$-dimensional subspace of $\mathbb R^n$. Finally let $A$ be any (nonempty) Borel subset of $A$ with $\gamma_n(A) = ...
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Probability that convex hull of multivariate Gaussian sample contains a given point

I am generating random vectors $X_1, \dots, X_N$ from a $d$-dimensional multivariate normal $\text N(\mu, \Sigma)$. I would like to know what is the probability that a given point $y \in R^d$ falls ...
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Algorithm to calculate moments of uniform distribution on convex polyhedra

There is system of linear inequalities $$ Ax \leq K, $$ $$ x\geq a, x\leq b. $$ $A$ is $(n\times m)$-matrix, where $n\approx 100$ and $m\approx 10000$, $rank(A)=n$. Suppose that on set of solutions ...
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Existence of preferred direction for a random vector with arbitrary distribution on sphere, under a condition on its covariance matrix

Let $X$ be random vector on the unit-sphere $S_{n-1}$ in $\mathbb R^n$. We don't assume that the distribution of $X$ is uniform on $S_{n-1}$ I'm interested in proving the existence of a (...
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For $x_1,...,x_n$ iid random on sphere of radius $\sqrt{d}$ in $R^d$, what is a good upper-bound on min distance of $x_{n}$ from the other $x_i$'s?

Let $n$ and $d$ be large positive integers with $n \le d^\gamma$, for some absolute constant $\gamma>0$; i.e., $n$ is at most polynomial in $d$. Let $x_1,\ldots,x_n,x_{n+1}$ be drawn iid from the ...
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Characterization of random variables whose tensor powers have subexponential "small-ball" probabilities

Is there a succinct characterization of all random variables $\zeta$ on $\mathbb R$ with the following properties 1. Symmetry: $\zeta \overset{d}{=} - \zeta$. 2. Small-ball probability: there exists ...
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When is the second largest Gaussian r.v. the largest in the stochastic sense?

Let $X_1, \ldots, X_n$ be jointly Gaussian, each of which is marginally distributed as a standard Gaussian $N(0,1)$. It is well known that $\max |X_i|$ achieves the maximum in the stochastic sense if $...
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Given a large random matrix, how to prove that every large submatrix whose range contains a large ball?

Context. Studing a problem in machine-learning, I'm led to consider the following problem in RMT... Definition. Given positive integers $m$ and $n$ and positive real numbers $c_1$ and $c_2$, let's ...
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Wasserstein distance between $N(0,1/d)$ and the marginal distribution of $x_1$ when $x=(x_1,\ldots,x_d)$ is uniform on the unit-sphere in $R^d$

Let $x=(x_1,\ldots,x_d)$ be uniformly distributed on the unit-sphere in $\mathbb R^d$. Question. What is a good upper-bound for Wasserstein distance between $N(0,1/d)$ and the marginal distribution ...
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Probability that the perturbed convex hull is larger than the original one

I am wondering if any convex geometers/probabilists have looked at the following question: Given $n$ randomly distributed (not sure what assumption to put there) points in $\mathbb{R}^d$, for each ...
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