On a multidimensional spherically invariant extension of the Rademacher--Gaussian comparison
Abstract
It is shown that \begin{equation*} \mathsf{P}(\|a_1U_1+\dots+a_nU_n\|>u)\le c\,\mathsf{P}(a\|Z_d\|>u) \end{equation*} for all real , where are independent random vectors uniformly distributed on the unit sphere in , are any real numbers, , is a standard normal random vector in , and . This constant factor is about times as small as the one in a recent result by Nayar and Tkocz, who proved, by a different method, a corresponding conjecture by Oleszkiewicz. As an immediate application, a corresponding upper bound on the tail probabilities for the norm of the sum of arbitrary independent spherically invariant random vectors is given.
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@article{arxiv.1603.04841,
title = {On a multidimensional spherically invariant extension of the Rademacher--Gaussian comparison},
author = {Iosif Pinelis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.04841},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
4 pages. Version 2: fixed two typos, made a few small changes. Version 3: added introductory paragraphs, references, details, and Corollary 1