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Generalized Wick Decompositions

Probability 2023-10-11 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

We review the cumulant decomposition (a way of decomposing the expectation of a product of random variables (e.g. E[XYZ]\mathbb{E}[XYZ]) into a sum of terms corresponding to partitions of these variables.) and the Wick decomposition (a way of decomposing a product of (not necessarily random) variables into a sum of terms corresponding to subsets of the variables). Then we generalize each one to a new decomposition where the product function is generalized to an arbitrary function.

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@article{arxiv.2310.06686,
  title  = {Generalized Wick Decompositions},
  author = {Chris MacLeod and Evgenia Nitishinskaya and Buck Shlegeris},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.06686},
  year   = {2023}
}

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11 pages

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