The goal of the article is to improve constants in the infimum convolution inequalities (IC for short) which were introduced by R. Lata{ \l}a and J.O. Wojtaszczyk. We show that the exponential distribution satisfies IC with constant $2$ but not with constant $1$, which implies that linear functions are not extremal in Maurey's property $(\tau)$. Using transport of measure we use this result to better constants in the IC inequalities for product symmetric log-concave measures as well as in the Talagrand's two level concentration inequality for the exponential distribution.
Categories: math.PR