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Exact Rosenthal-type bounds

Probability 2015-10-30 v5 Statistics Theory Statistics Theory

Abstract

It is shown that, for any given p5p\ge5, A>0A>0 and B>0B>0, the exact upper bound on EXip\mathsf{E}|\sum X_i|^p over all independent zero-mean random variables (r.v.'s) X1,,XnX_1,\ldots,X_n such that EXi2=B\sum\mathsf{E}X_i^2=B and EXip=A\sum\mathsf{E}|X_i|^p=A equals cpEΠλλpc^p\mathsf{E}|\Pi_{\lambda}-\lambda|^p, where (λ,c)(0,)2(\lambda ,c)\in(0,\infty)^2 is the unique solution to the system of equations cpλ=Ac^p\lambda=A and c2λ=Bc^2\lambda=B, and Πλ\Pi_{\lambda} is a Poisson r.v. with mean λ\lambda. In fact, a more general result is obtained, as well as other related ones. As a tool used in the proof, a calculus of variations of moments of infinitely divisible distributions with respect to variations of the L\'{e}vy characteristics is developed.

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@article{arxiv.1304.4609,
  title  = {Exact Rosenthal-type bounds},
  author = {Iosif Pinelis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.4609},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/14-AOP942 in the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)

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