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Siran Li
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It is a well-known fact -- which can be shown by elementary calculus -- that the volume of the unit ball in $mathbb{R}^n$ decays to zero and simultaneously gets concentrated on the thin shell near the boundary sphere as $n earrow infty$. Many rigorous proofs and heuristic arguments are provided for this fact from different viewpoints, including Euclidean geometry, convex geometry, Banach space theory, combinatorics, probability, discrete geometry, etc. In this note we give yet another two proofs via the regularity theory of elliptic partial differential equations and calculus of variations.
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The unit ball $B_p^n(mathbb{R})$ of the finite-dimensional Schatten trace class $mathcal S_p^n$ consists of all real $ntimes n$ matrices $A$ whose singular values $s_1(A),ldots,s_n(A)$ satisfy $s_1^p(A)+ldots+s_n^p(A)leq 1$, where $p>0$. Saint Raymond [Studia Math. 80, 63--75, 1984] showed that the limit $$ lim_{ntoinfty} n^{1/2 + 1/p} big(text{Vol}, B_p^n(mathbb{R})big)^{1/n^2} $$ exists in $(0,infty)$ and provided both lower and upper bounds. In this paper we determine the precise limiting constant based on ideas from the theory of logarithmic potentials with external fields. A similar result is obtained for complex Schatten balls. As an application we compute the precise asymptotic volume ratio of the Schatten $p$-balls, as $ntoinfty$, thereby extending Saint Raymonds estimate in the case of the nuclear norm ($p=1$) to the full regime $1leq p leq infty$ with exact limiting behavior.
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