Asymptotic Geometric Analysis, Part I

Product Description The authors present the theory of asymptotic geometric analysis, a field which lies on the border between geometry and functional analysis. In this field, isometric problems that are typical for geometry in low dimensions are substituted by an "isomorphic" point of view, and an asymptotic approach (as dimension tends to infinity) is introduced. Geometry and analysis meet here in a non-trivial way. Basic examples of geometric inequalities in isomorphic form which are encountered in the book are the "isomorphic isoperimetric inequalities" which led to the discovery of the "concentration phenomenon", one of the most powerful tools of the theory, responsible for many counterintuitive results. A central theme in this book is the interaction of randomness and pattern. At first glance, life in high dimension seems to mean the existence of multiple "possibilities", so one may expect an increase in the diversity and complexity as dimension increases. However, the concentration of measure and effects caused by convexity show that this diversity is compensated and order and patterns are created for arbitrary convex bodies in the mixture caused by high dimensionality. The book is intended for graduate students and researchers who want to learn about this exciting subject. Among the topics covered in the book are convexity, concentration phenomena, covering numbers, Dvoretzky-type theorems, volume distribution in convex bodies, and more. Review [T]he book makes much more accessible many essential recent and classical results from modern asymptotic geometric analysis and convexity and is an outstanding source for a course on this subject. --Artem Zvavitch, Mathematical ReviewsThis book (and its second volume) has become the essential reference and main source for the theory of asymptotic geometric analysis. --Maria A Hernandez Cifre, Zentralblatt MATH About the Author Shiri Artstein-Avidan , Tel Aviv University, Israel. Apostolos Giannopoulos , University of Athens, Greece. Vitali D. Milman , Tel Aviv University, Israel.