Convex geometry and waist inequalities

Bo’az Klartag*

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Abstract

This paper presents connections between Gromov’s work on isoperimetry of waists and Milman’s work on the M-ellipsoid of a convex body. It is proven that any convex body K⊆ Rn has a linear image K~ ⊆ Rn of volume one satisfying the following waist inequality: Any continuous map f: K~ → R has a fiber f- 1(t) whose (n- ℓ) -dimensional volume is at least cn - , where c> 0 is a universal constant. In the specific case where K= [ 0 , 1 ] n it is shown that one may take K~ = K and c= 1 , confirming a conjecture by Guth. We furthermore exhibit relations between waist inequalities and various geometric characteristics of the convex body K.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)130-164
Number of pages35
JournalGeometric and Functional Analysis
Volume27
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Feb 2017

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