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Concentration Inequalities for Ultra Log-Concave Distributions

Probability 2021-10-04 v3

Abstract

We establish concentration inequalities in the class of ultra log-concave distributions. In particular, we show that ultra log-concave distributions satisfy Poisson concentration bounds. As an application, we derive concentration bounds for the intrinsic volumes of a convex body, which generalizes and improves a result of Lotz, McCoy, Nourdin, Peccati, and Tropp (2019).

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@article{arxiv.2104.05054,
  title  = {Concentration Inequalities for Ultra Log-Concave Distributions},
  author = {Heshan Aravinda and Arnaud Marsiglietti and James Melbourne},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.05054},
  year   = {2021}
}

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10 pages

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