Concentration dimension


In mathematicsspecifically, in probability theory — the concentration dimension of a Banach space-valued random variable is a numerical measure of how “spread out” the random variable is compared to the norm on the space.

Definition

Let be a Banach space and let X be a Gaussian random variable taking values in B. That is, for every linear functional in the dual space B, the real-valued random variable ⟨, X⟩ has a normal distribution. Define
Then the concentration dimension d of X is defined by

Examples