Regular functional covering numbers

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Auteurs principaux: Giannopoulos, Apostolos, Tziotziou, Natalia
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author Giannopoulos, Apostolos
Tziotziou, Natalia
author_facet Giannopoulos, Apostolos
Tziotziou, Natalia
contents We establish the existence of a regular functional $M$-position, in the sense of Pisier, for geometric log-concave functions. This provides a functional analogue of Pisier's regular $M$-positions for convex bodies and yields uniform control of covering numbers at all scales. Specifically, we show that every isotropic geometric log-concave function $f:\mathbb{R}^n \to [0,\infty)$ satisfies, for all $t\geq 1$, $$\max \left\{N(f, t \cdot g),\,N(f^*, t \cdot g),\,N(g, t \cdot f),\,N(g, t \cdot f^*)\right\} \leq \exp\left( \frac{γ_n^2\, n}{t} \right),$$ where $f^*$ denotes the Legendre dual of $f$, $(t \cdot f)(x)=f(x/t)$ is the $t$-homothety of $f$, $g(x)=\exp \left(-\frac{1}{2}|x|^{2}\right)$ and $γ_n \leq c(\ln n)^2$. Our result shows that the isotropic position of a log-concave function already provides an almost $1$-regular functional $M$-position.
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spellingShingle Regular functional covering numbers
Giannopoulos, Apostolos
Tziotziou, Natalia
Metric Geometry
Primary 52A23, Secondary 46B06, 52A40, 52C17, 26B25
We establish the existence of a regular functional $M$-position, in the sense of Pisier, for geometric log-concave functions. This provides a functional analogue of Pisier's regular $M$-positions for convex bodies and yields uniform control of covering numbers at all scales. Specifically, we show that every isotropic geometric log-concave function $f:\mathbb{R}^n \to [0,\infty)$ satisfies, for all $t\geq 1$, $$\max \left\{N(f, t \cdot g),\,N(f^*, t \cdot g),\,N(g, t \cdot f),\,N(g, t \cdot f^*)\right\} \leq \exp\left( \frac{γ_n^2\, n}{t} \right),$$ where $f^*$ denotes the Legendre dual of $f$, $(t \cdot f)(x)=f(x/t)$ is the $t$-homothety of $f$, $g(x)=\exp \left(-\frac{1}{2}|x|^{2}\right)$ and $γ_n \leq c(\ln n)^2$. Our result shows that the isotropic position of a log-concave function already provides an almost $1$-regular functional $M$-position.
title Regular functional covering numbers
topic Metric Geometry
Primary 52A23, Secondary 46B06, 52A40, 52C17, 26B25
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04301