This is an announcement for the paper "Small ball probability and Dvoretzky theorem" by Bo'az Klartag and Roman Vershynin.

Abstract: Large deviation estimates are by now a standard tool inthe Asymptotic Convex Geometry, contrary to small deviationresults. In this note we present a novel application of a smalldeviations inequality to a problem related to the diameters of random sections of high dimensional convex bodies. Our results imply an unexpected distinction between the lower and the upper inclusions in Dvoretzky Theorem.

Archive classification: Functional Analysis; Probability

Mathematics Subject Classification: 46B07; 60F10

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