@article{onfreeenergybarriersingaussianpriors, title = {On free energy barriers in Gaussian priors and failure of cold start MCMC for high-dimensional unimodal distributions}, author = {Afonso S. Bandeira and Antoine Maillard and Richard Nickl and Sven Wang}, year = {2022}, eprint = {2209.02001}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.02001v2}, }