Lₚ moments of random vectors via majorizing measures

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For a random vector X in Rⁿ, we obtain bounds on the size of a sample, for which the empirical p-th moments of linear functionals are close to the exact ones uniformly on an n-dimensional convex body K. We prove an estimate for a general random vector and apply it to several problems arising in geometric functional analysis. In particular, we find a short Lewis type decomposition for any finite dimensional subspace of Lₚ. We also prove that for an isotropic log-concave random vector, we only need about nᵖ/² n sample points so that the empirical p-th moments of the linear functionals are almost isometrically the same as the exact ones. We obtain a concentration estimate for the empirical moments. The main ingredient of the proof is the construction of an appropriate majorizing measure to bound a certain Gaussian process.