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Publications and source records attributed to Franck Barthe.
If a random variable is not exponentially integrable, it is known that no concentration inequality holds for an infinite sequence of independent copies. Under mild conditions, we establish concentration inequalities for finite sequences of $n$ independent copies, with good dependence in $n$.
This article investigates, by probabilistic methods, various geometric questions on B_p^n, the unit ball of \ell_p^n. We propose realizations in terms of independent random variables of several distributions on B_p^n, including the normalized volume measure. These representations allow us to unify and extend the known results of the sub-independence of coordinate slabs in B_p^n. As another application, we compute moments of linear functionals on B_p^n, which gives sharp constants in Khinchine's inequalities on B_p^n and determines the ψ_2-constant of all directions on B_p^n. We also study the extremal values of several Gaussian averages on sections of B_p^n (including mean width and \ell-norm), and derive several monotonicity results as p varies. Applications to balancing vectors in \ell_2 and to covering numbers of polyhedra complete the exposition.
A unified analytic solution to the Busemann-Petty problem was recently found by Gardner, Koldobsky and Schlumprecht. We give an elementary proof of their formulas for the inverse Radon transform.
We prove a reverse form of the multidimensional Brascamp-Lieb inequality. Our method also gives a new way to derive the Brascamp-Lieb inequality and is rather convenient for the study of equality cases.
We give a new proof of the sharp form of Young's inequality for convolutions, first proved by Beckner [Be] and Brascamp-Lieb [BL]. The latter also proved a sharp reverse inequality in the case of exponents less than $1$. Our proof is simpler and gives Young's inequality and its converse altogether.