A product-CLT and its application in invariance principle of random
projection
Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma states random projections can be used as a topology preserving embedding technique for fixed vectors. In this paper, we try to understand how random projections affect probabilistic properties of random vectors. In particular we prove the distribution of inner product of two independent random vectors is preserved by random projection . More precisely, \[ \sup_t \left| \text{P}(\frac{1}{C_{m,n}} X^TS^TSZ <t) - \text{P}(\frac{1}{\sqrt{n}} X^TZ<t) \right| \le O\left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{n}}+ \frac{1}{\sqrt{m}} \right) \] This is achieved by proving a general central limit theorem (product-CLT) for , where is a martingale difference sequence, and has dependency within the sequence. We also obtain the rate of convergence in the spirit of Berry-Esseen theorem.
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