Title:
Variance of Lipschitz Functions and an Isoperimetric Problem for a Class of Product Measures

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Bobkov, S. G.
Houdré, Christian
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The maximal variance of Lipschitz functions (with respect to the \ell_1-distance) of independent random vectors is found. This is then used to solve the isoperimetric problem, uniformly in the class of product probability measures with given variance.
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ISF grant NZX000 and NZX300 and NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship
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1995-07-10
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