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A Sharp Gaussian Tail Bound for Sums of Uniforms

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Abstract

We prove that the tail probabilities of sums of independent uniform random variables, up to a multiplicative constant, are dominated by the Gaussian tail with matching variance and find the sharp constant for such stochastic domination.

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@article{arxiv.2305.06235,
  title  = {A Sharp Gaussian Tail Bound for Sums of Uniforms},
  author = {Xinjie He and Tomasz Tkocz and Katarzyna Wyczesany},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.06235},
  year   = {2026}
}

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