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Contraction and decoupling inequalities for multilinear forms and u-statistics

Probability 2008-02-03 v2 Functional Analysis Statistics Theory Statistics Theory

Abstract

We prove decoupling inequalities for random polynomials in independent random variables with coefficients in vector space. We use various means of comparison, including rearrangement invariant norms (e.g., Orlicz and Lorentz norms), tail distributions, tightness, hypercontractivity, etc.

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@article{arxiv.math/9406214,
  title  = {Contraction and decoupling inequalities for multilinear forms and u-statistics},
  author = {V. de la Pena and Stephen J. Montgomery-Smith and Jerzy Szulga},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9406214},
  year   = {2008}
}