Structure preservation via the Wasserstein distance (joint work with D. Bartl).

Event details
Date | 12.05.2023 |
Hour | 15:15 › 16:15 |
Speaker |
Shahar Mendelson (Australian National University) |
Location | |
Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Event Language | English |
Consider an isotropic measure \mu on R^d (i.e., centred and whose covariance is the identity) and let X_1,...,X_m be independent, selected according to \mu. If \Gamma=m^{-1/2} \sum_{i=1}^m <X_i,->e_i is the random operator whose rows are X_i/\sqrt{m}, how does the random set \Gamma S^{d-1} typically look like? For example, if the extremal singular values of \Gamma are close to 1, then \Gamma S^{d-1} is "well approximated" by a d-dimensional section of S^{m-1} and vice-versa. But is it possible to give a more accurate description of that set?
I will show that under minimal assumptions on \mu, with high probability and uniformly in t \in S^{d-1}, each vector \Gamma t inherits the structure of the one-dimensional marginal <X,t> in a strong sense.
If time permits I will also outline what happens when considering an arbitrary subset of S^{d-1} rather than the entire sphere.
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Organizer
- Chizat Lénaïc Ged François