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Most likely balls in Banach spaces: existence and non-existence

Functional Analysis 2023-09-07 v1 Probability Statistics Theory Statistics Theory

Abstract

We establish a general criterion for the existence of convex sets of fixed shape as, e.g., balls of a given radius, of maximal probability on Banach spaces. We also provide counterexamples showing that their existence my fail even in some common situations.

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@article{arxiv.2309.02846,
  title  = {Most likely balls in Banach spaces: existence and non-existence},
  author = {Bernd Schmidt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.02846},
  year   = {2023}
}