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An Inequality for Moments of Log-Concave Functions on Gaussian Random Vectors

Authors : Nikos Dafnis, Grigoris Paouris

Published in: Geometric Aspects of Functional Analysis

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

We prove sharp moment inequalities for log-concave and log-convex functions, on Gaussian random vectors. As an application we take a reverse form of the classical logarithmic Sobolev inequality, in the case where the function is log-concave.

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Metadata
Title
An Inequality for Moments of Log-Concave Functions on Gaussian Random Vectors
Authors
Nikos Dafnis
Grigoris Paouris
Copyright Year
2017
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45282-1_7

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