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Shih-Yu Chang

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Geometric Approach For Majorizing Measures

Gaussian processes can be considered as subsets of a standard Hilbert space, but the geometric understanding that would relate the size of a set with the size of its convex hull is still lacking. In this work, we adopt a geometric approach to the majorizing measure problem by identifying the covering number relationships between a given space $T$ and its convex hull, represented by $T_h$. If the space $T$ is a closed bounded polyhedra in $\mathbb{R}^n$, we can evaluate the volume ratio between the space $T$ and its convex hull obtained by the Quickhull algorithm. If the space $T$ is a general compact object in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with non-empty interior, we first establish a more general reverse Brunn-Minkowski inequality for nonconvex spaces which will assist us to bound the volume of $T_h$ in terms of the volume of $T$ if $T_h$ can be acquired by the finite average of the space $T$ with respect to the Minkowski sum. If the volume ratio between the space $T$ and the space $T_h$ is obtained, the covering number ratio between the space $T$ and the space $T_h$ can also be obtained which will be used to build majorizing measure inequality. For infinite dimensional space, we show that the constant $L$ at majorizing measure inequality may not always exist and the existence condition will depend on geometric properties of $T$.

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Geometric Approach For Majorizing Measures on Hadamard Manifolds

Gaussian processes can be treated as subsets of a standard Hilbert space, however, the volume size relation between the underlying index space of random processes and its convex hull is not clear. The understanding of such volume size relations can help us to establish a majorizing measure theorem geometrically. In this paper, we assume that the underlying index space of random processes is a simply connected manifold with sectional curvature less than negative one (Hadamard manifold). We derive the upper bound for the ratio between the volume of the underlying index space and the volume of its convex hull. We then apply this volume ratio to prove the majorizing measure theorem geometrically.

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