Bench / sampling
A log-concave shape is not yet a probability density
Log-Concave Sampling · natural-language: L1 (author-assigned; calibration pending)
Why this difficulty?
Identify the positive shape, logarithm, reference measure and normalizing constant; no tail-integrability proof is requested.
Editorial review and exact formal-coverage boundary
AI editorial review accepted. This is not canonical theorem publication, full Lean coverage or empirical difficulty calibration.
- This QA has no aligned Lean view. Borel measurability bookkeeping, the numerical normalization criterion and its probability-density verification, positivity of the Lebesgue integral, and the infinite-volume V=0 example are independently checked prose obligations beyond the cited log-concavity leaf.
Content-bound review status and evidence hashes · Independent reports and frozen inputs. Historical rejected wording is audit material, not training gold.
Assumptions and conventions
- On \(\mathbb{R}^{d}\) with \(d\ge 1\) and Lebesgue reference measure, V is a finite real-valued Borel measurable convex function. Set \(ρ(x)=exp(-V(x))\).
Natural-language question
Identify the log-concave shape and its logarithm. What additional numerical condition on \(Z=\int ρ(x)dx\) is required before \(ρ/Z\) defines a probability density? State which reference measure the word density refers to.
Reference mathematical proof
The shape \(ρ\) is strictly positive and Borel measurable. Its logarithm is \(-V\), a concave function by convexity of V, so this is a positive log-concave shape.
The normalizing quantity is \[Z=\int_{\mathbb R^d}e^{-V(x)}\,dx.\] A probability normalization requires \(0<Z<\infty \), after which \(p(x)=ρ(x)/Z\) integrates to one against Lebesgue measure.
Log-concavity of the shape is a pointwise convex-analysis property; the finite integral is a separate analytic condition. This question asks to identify that obligation, not to prove that it holds for every convex potential.
For example \(V=0\) has the log-concave shape \(ρ=1\) but infinite Lebesgue integral on \(\mathbb{R}^{d}\). Thus the shape alone is not a normalized sampling target.
Formal support and missing Lean alignment
The existing declaration supports the positive log-concavity claim only. This full definition/normalization QA has no aligned Lean view.
Assessment rubric · 4 points
- Identifies \(ρ=exp(-V)>0\) and log \(ρ=-V\). (1 point)
- Relates concavity of log \(ρ\) to convexity of V. (1 point)
- States \(0<Z<\infty \) and \(p=ρ/Z\) rather than treating shape as already normalized. (1 point)
- Names Lebesgue reference measure and keeps integrability separate from shape. (1 point)
Lean view: not yet aligned
The existing declaration supports the positive log-concavity claim only. This full definition/normalization QA has no aligned Lean view.
This support theorem does not certify the complete QA or its explanatory counterexamples.
What this does—and does not—verify
No Gibbs normalization or tail-integrability theorem is supplied by the log-concavity leaf.
Existing library mathematics reused; no new mathematical leaf or paper-completion credit. The editorial panel records the exact current review scope and remaining unformalized explanation.
Sources, graph location and dependencies
Original introductory exercise over the local positive log-concavity API; no textbook prose is reproduced.
Exact local source and full context · Locate the owning module (declaration not yet indexed in this graph)
AutoSamplingTheory.TechnicalLemmas.Geometry.LogConcavity.logConcaveOn_exp_neg_of_convexOn
ASTIS formal support (not an equivalent QA)
Mathlib facts / definitions
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