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A L\'evy-Ottaviani type inequality for the Bernoulli process on an interval

Probability 2019-11-14 v3

Abstract

In this paper we prove a L\'evy-Ottaviani type of property for the Bernoulli process defined on an interval. Namely, we show that under certain conditions on functions (ai)i=1n(a_i)_{i=1}^{n} and for independent Bernoulli random variables (εi)i=1n(\varepsilon_i)_{i=1}^{n}, P(supt[0,1]i=1nai(t)εic)\mathbb{P}(\sup_{t\in [0,1]}\sum^n_{i=1}a_i(t)\varepsilon_i\geq c) is dominated by CP(i=1nai(1)εi1)C\mathbb{P}(\sum^n_{i=1}a_i(1)\varepsilon_i\geq1), where cc and CC are explicit numerical constants independent of nn. The result is a partial answer to the conjecture of W. Szatzschneider that the domination holds with c=1c=1 and C=2C=2.

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@article{arxiv.1812.05985,
  title  = {A L\'evy-Ottaviani type inequality for the Bernoulli process on an interval},
  author = {Witold Bednorz and Rafał Martynek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.05985},
  year   = {2019}
}

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6 pages

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