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arxiv: 1402.4492 · v2 · pith:C6ZA4DXBnew · submitted 2014-02-18 · 🧮 math.PR

Small ball probabilities for linear images of high dimensional distributions

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We study concentration properties of random vectors of the form $AX$, where $X = (X_1, ..., X_n)$ has independent coordinates and $A$ is a given matrix. We show that the distribution of $AX$ is well spread in space whenever the distributions of $X_i$ are well spread on the line. Specifically, assume that the probability that $X_i$ falls in any given interval of length $T$ is at most $p$. Then the probability that $AX$ falls in any given ball of radius $T \|A\|_{HS}$ is at most $(Cp)^{0.9 r(A)}$, where $r(A)$ denotes the stable rank of $A$ and $C$ is an absolute constant.

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