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We study in details the isoperimetric profile of product probability measures with tails between the exponential and the Gaussian regime. In particular we exhibit many examples where coordinate half-spaces are approximate solutions of the isoperimetric problem. 1

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We show that for convex domains in Euclidean space, Cheeger’s isoperimetric inequality, spectral gap of the Neumann Laplacian, exponential concentration of Lipschitz functions, and the a-priori weakest requirement that Lipschitz functions have arbitrarily slow uniform tail-decay, are all quantitatively equivalent (to within universal constants, independent of the dimension). This substantially extends previous results of Maz’ya, Cheeger, Gromov– Milman, Buser and Ledoux. As an application, we conclude a sharp quantitative stability result for the spectral gap of convex domains under convex perturbations which preserve volume (up to constants) and under maps which are “on-average ” Lipschitz. We also provide a new characterization (up to constants) of the spectral gap of a convex domain, as one over the square of the average distance from the “worst ” subset having half the measure of the domain. In addition, we easily recover and extend many previously known lower bounds on the spectral gap of convex domains, due to Payne–Weinberger, Li–Yau, Kannan– Lovász–Simonovits, Bobkov and Sodin. The proof involves estimates on the diffusion semigroup following Bakry–Ledoux and a result from Riemannian Geometry on the concavity of the isoperimetric profile. Our results extend to the more general setting of Riemannian manifolds with density which satisfy the CD(0, ∞) curvature-dimension condition of Bakry-Émery. 1

We provide a sufficient condition for a measure on the real line to satisfy a modified logarithmic Sobolev inequality, thus extending the criterion of Bobkov and Götze. Under mild assumptions the condition is also necessary. Concentration inequalities are derived. This completes the picture given in recent contributions by Gentil, Guillin and Miclo. 1

Abstract. We show that many uniformly convex bodies have Gaussian marginals in most directions in a strong sense, which takes into account the tails of the distributions. These include uniformly convex bodies with power type 2, and power type p> 2 with some additional type condition. In particular, all unit-balls of subspaces of Lp for 1 < p < ∞ have Gaussian marginals in this strong sense. Using the weaker Kolmogorov metric, we can extend our results to arbitrary uniformly convex bodies with power type p, for 2 ≤ p < 4. These results are obtained by putting the bodies in (surprisingly) non-isotropic positions and by a new concentration of volume observation for uniformly convex bodies. 1.

The normalised volume measure on the ℓ n p unit ball (1 ≤ p ≤ 2) satisfies the following isoperimetric inequality: the boundary measure of a set of measure a is at least cn 1/p ã log 1−1/p (1/ã), where ã = min(a,1 − a). Résumé Nous prouvons une inégalité isopérimétrique pour la mesure uniforme Vp,n sur la boule unité de ℓ n p (1 ≤ p ≤ 2). Si Vp,n(A) = a, alors V + p,n(A) ≥ cn 1/p ea log 1−1/p 1/ea, où V + p,n est la mesure de surface associée à Vp,n, ea = min(a,1 − a) et c est une constante absolue. En particulier, les boules unités de ℓ n p vérifient la conjecture de Kannan– Lovász–Simonovits [KLS] sur la constante de Cheeger d’un corps convexe isotrope. La démonstration s’appuie sur les inégalités isopérimétriques de Bobkov [B1] et de Barthe–Cattiaux–Roberto [BCR], et utilise la représentation de Vp,n établie par Barthe–Guédon–Mendelson–Naor [BGMN] ainsi qu’un argument de découpage. 1

Abstract. The Heisenberg group is one of the simplest sub-Riemannian settings in which we can define non-elliptic Hörmander type generators. We can then consider coercive inequalities associated to such generators. We prove that a certain class of nontrivial Gibbs measures with quadratic interaction potential on an infinite product of Heisenberg groups satisfy logarithmic Sobolev inequalities. 1.

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Abstract. We consider unbounded spin systems on the one dimensional Lattice with interactions that go beyond the usual strict convexity and without uniform bound on the second derivative. We assume that the one dimensional without interactions (boundary-free) measure satisfies the Log-sobolev inequality and we determine conditions under which the Log-Sobolev Inequality can be extended to the infinite volume Gibbs measure. 1.