Numerical fact $\log 2 < 1$, used as a constant bound in the recentering arguments.
Recentering lemma in the toReal formulation: given a sub-Gaussian tail bound around
the median, produce a sub-Gaussian tail bound around an arbitrary center center, with
some positive constant $c$ depending on the gap and the dimension.
Norm of the projection of $z \in \mathbb{R}^m$ onto the first $d$ coordinates, $\| (z_1, \dots, z_d) \|_2$.
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Lemma 9.4.24 (random projection / Johnson-Lindenstrauss concentration). Under a Lévy sub-Gaussian concentration assumption for $1$-Lipschitz functions of a random $Z \in \mathbb{R}^m$, the projection norm $\|P_d Z\|$ concentrates around $\sqrt{d/m}$ with sub-Gaussian tails: $\mu(|\,\|P_d Z\| - \sqrt{d/m}\,| \ge t) \le 2 \exp(-c m t^2)$ for some $c > 0$.
Nearly-equidistant points in $\mathbb{R}^d$. Combining Johnson-Lindenstrauss with the standard simplex construction, one can embed exponentially many points $S_1, \dots, S_N$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with all pairwise distances in $[1 - \varepsilon, 1 + \varepsilon]$, where $N \ge \exp(c \varepsilon^2 d)$.