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General distributions with the "transportation-cost inequality" property to piece log-concave distributions
It is now known [Otto et Villani 2000; Cordero et al 2006; etc.] that on an $n$-dimensional smooth Riemannian manifold $X$ and a probability measure $\mu$ on $X$ with density $d\mu \propto e^{-V}dvol$ ...
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How tight is the bound $P(\|X\|^2 \ge t |\langle a,X\rangle|) \ge 1 - t\sqrt{\frac{2}{m-1}}$, where $X \sim N(0, I_m)$ and $\|a\| = 1$?
Let $X$ be a random vector in $\mathbb R^m$ with iid $N(0,1)$ coordinates and let $a$ be a fixed unit vector in $\mathbb R^m$. In another post (SE link here https://math.stackexchange.com/a/3792730/...
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Compute lower bound on $\min_{E} \mathcal N(0,\sigma^2 I_n)(E)$ subject to $vol(E \cap H_n(r)) / vol(H_n(r)) \ge p$ where $H_n(r)$ is $n$-hemisphere
Let $n \ge 2$ be an integer, which may be assumed to be very large. For $r > 0$, consider the hemi-sphere $H_n(r) := S_n(r) \cap (\mathbb R^+ \times \mathbb R^{n-1})$, where
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S_n(r):= \{x \in \...
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