Weighted poincaré-type inequalities for cauchy and other convex measures

Brascamp-Lieb-type, weighted Poincare-type and related analytic inequalities are studied for multidimensional Cauchy distributions and more general κ-concave probability measures (in the hierarchy of convex measures). In analogy with the limiting (infinite-dimensional log-concave) Gaussian model, the weighted inequalities fully describe the measure concentration and large deviation properties of this family of measures. Cheeger-type isoperimetric inequalities are investigated similarly, giving rise to a common weight in the class of concave probability measures under consideration.

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