Projecting the surface measure of the sphere of ℓ                         n                         p

Assaf Naor; Dan Romik

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Projecting the surface measure of the sphere of ℓ ⁿ _p

Assaf Naor, Dan Romik

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We prove that the total variation distance between the cone measure and surface measure on the sphere of ℓ _p ⁿ is bounded by a constant times 1/ √n. This is used to give a new proof of the fact that the coordinates of a random vector on the ℓ _p ⁿ sphere are approximately independent with density proportional to exp(- t ^p ), a unification and generalization of two theorems of Diaconis and Freedman. Finally, we show in contrast that a projection of the surface measure of the ℓ _p ⁿ sphere onto a random k-dimensional subspace is "close" to the k-dimensional Gaussian measure.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	241-261
Number of pages	21
Journal	Annales de l'institut Henri Poincare (B) Probability and Statistics
Volume	39
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0246-0203(02)00008-0
State	Published - 2003
Externally published	Yes

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Statistics and Probability
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty

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