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Cyclic behavior of maxima for sums of independent variables

Probability 2015-02-24 v1

Abstract

In a recent author's work the cyclic behavior of maxima in a hierarchical summation scheme was discovered. In the present note we show how the same phenomenon appears in the scheme of conventional summation: the distribution of maximum of 2n2^n independent copies of a sum of nn i.i.d. random variables approaches, as nn grows, some helix in the space of distributions.

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@article{arxiv.1307.0612,
  title  = {Cyclic behavior of maxima for sums of independent variables},
  author = {M. A. Lifshits},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.0612},
  year   = {2015}
}