gaussian random vectors are approximately uniform on the hollow sphere

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Take Away

N(0,Id)Unif(Sd1(d))

Caution

This is an informal approximation!

We get this by noting

  1. When xN(0,Id), we have Law(x||x||)=Unif(Sd1) ( which we get from normalized standard gaussian random vectors have the orthogonally invariant distribution on the unit sphere )
  2. ||x||d, which follows from the concentration inequality for magnitude of standard gaussian random vector
    Combining the two yields the heuristic approximation.

This idea is formalized in Borel's central limit theorem

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