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The study of high-dimensional convex bodies from a geometric and
analytic point of view, with an emphasis on the dependence of
various parameters on the dimension stands at the intersection of
classical convex geometry and the local theory of Banach spaces. It
is also closely linked to many other fields, such as probability
theory, partial differential equations, Riemannian geometry,
harmonic analysis and combinatorics. It is now understood that the
convexity assumption forces most of the volume of a
high-dimensional convex body to be concentrated in some canonical
way and the main question is whether, under some natural
normalisation, the answer to many fundamental questions should be
independent of the dimension. The aim of this book is to introduce
a number of well-known questions regarding the distribution of
volume in high-dimensional convex bodies, which are exactly of this
nature: among them are the slicing problem, the thin-shell
conjecture and the Kannan-Lovasz-Simonovits conjecture. This book
provides a self-contained and up to date account of the progress
that has been made in the last fifteen years.
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