Activities This Week

We survey progress from the past five years on the distribution of mass in high-dimensional convex bodies and in probability distributions with convexity properties. The concentration of measure phenomenon has traditionally been studied in highly regular or structured settings, such as spheres, Hamming cubes, Gaussian measures, Markov chains, and martingales. It turns out that convexity assumptions provide an alternative source of regularity in high dimensions with remarkably similar features: Lipschitz functions are highly concentrated, the isoperimetric problem is nearly saturated by half-spaces (up to logarithmic factors), and the central limit theorem is nearly as strong as in the setting of independent random variables. The main developments discussed include the resolution of Bourgain’s slicing problem and the Variance Conjecture, as well as recent progress on the isoperimetric problem for high-dimensional convex bodies. Based on joint work with P. Bizeul and J. Lehec.

The Keller cylinder DG ring encodes homotopies between DG ring homomorphisms f_0, f_1 : A \to B.

Recently we discovered the higher cylinder DG rings Cyl_q(B), which assemble into the simplicial cylinder DG ring Cyl(B). For q=1 this recovers Keller’s original construction.

The sets SHom_q(A,B) of DG ring homomorphisms A \to Cyl_q(B) form the simplicial Hom set SHom(A,B). Our main result is that when A is a semi-free DG ring, the simplicial set SHom(A,B) is a Kan complex.

We prove several results about the fundamental groupoid SHom_{\leq 1}(A,B), including invariance under quasi-isomorphism B’ \to B, and that the automorphism groups are abelian. We also indicate some applications of this work.

Typed notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sMzwoC_DGCotOfak8o8wYpmttgZELf6l/view

arXiv eprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11943