A note on the binomial distribution motivated by Chv\'{a}tal's theorem and Tomasewski's theorem
Probability
2025-03-21 v1
Abstract
Let denote a binomial random variable with parameters and . Chv\'{a}tal's theorem says that for any fixed , as ranges over , the probability is the smallest when is closest to . Let be the family of random variables of the form , where , are real numbers with , and , , are independent Rademacher random variables (i.e., ). Tomaszewski's theorem says that . Motivated by Chv\'{a}tal's Theorem and Tomasewski's Theorem, in this note, we study the minimum value of the probability when ranges over for any fixed , where denotes the variance, and prove that it is the smallest when and .
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@article{arxiv.2503.15899,
title = {A note on the binomial distribution motivated by Chv\'{a}tal's theorem and Tomasewski's theorem},
author = {Zheng-Yan Guo and Ze-Chun Hu and Run-Yu Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.15899},
year = {2025}
}
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11 pages