The Localization Method for High-Dimensional Inequalities

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Main Authors: Kook, Yunbum, Vempala, Santosh S.
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author Kook, Yunbum
Vempala, Santosh S.
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Vempala, Santosh S.
contents We survey the localization method for proving inequalities in high dimension, pioneered by Lovász and Simonovits (1993), and its stochastic extension developed by Eldan (2012). The method has found applications in a surprising wide variety of settings, ranging from its original motivation in isoperimetric inequalities to optimization, concentration of measure, and bounding the mixing rate of Markov chains. At heart, the method converts a given instance of an inequality (for a set or distribution in high dimension) into a highly structured instance, often just one-dimensional.
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spellingShingle The Localization Method for High-Dimensional Inequalities
Kook, Yunbum
Vempala, Santosh S.
Probability
Data Structures and Algorithms
Functional Analysis
We survey the localization method for proving inequalities in high dimension, pioneered by Lovász and Simonovits (1993), and its stochastic extension developed by Eldan (2012). The method has found applications in a surprising wide variety of settings, ranging from its original motivation in isoperimetric inequalities to optimization, concentration of measure, and bounding the mixing rate of Markov chains. At heart, the method converts a given instance of an inequality (for a set or distribution in high dimension) into a highly structured instance, often just one-dimensional.
title The Localization Method for High-Dimensional Inequalities
topic Probability
Data Structures and Algorithms
Functional Analysis
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10848