Interpolating Thin-Shell and Sharp Large-Deviation Estimates for Isotropic Log-Concave Measures

Geometric and Functional Analysis

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1043-1068

  Guédon, Olivier ^a   Milman, Emanuel ^b  

^a UFR des Sciences et Technologie   (France)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

concentration inequalities; Isotropic; KLS conjecture; large deviation; log concave measure; thin shell

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053579803     PISSN: 1016443X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00039-011-0136-5     Document Type: Article

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