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On the best constants in Khintchine type inequalities for martingales

Probability 2025-12-22 v1 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

For discrete martingale-difference sequences d={d1,,dn}d=\{d_1,\ldots,d_n\} we consider Khintchine type inequalities, involving certain square function S(d)\mathfrak S (d) considered by Chang-Wilson-Wolff in 1982. In particular, we prove \begin{equation} \left\|\sum_{k=1}^nd_k\right\|_p\le 2^{1/2}\big(\Gamma((p+1)/2))/\sqrt{\pi}\big)^{1/p}\|\mathfrak S(d)\|_\infty,\quad p\ge 3, \end{equation} where the constant on the right hand side is the best possible and the same as known for the Rademacher sums k=1nakrk\sum_{k=1}^na_kr_k. Moreover, for a fixed nn the constant in the inequality can be replaced by k=1nrk/n\sum_{k=1}^nr_k/\sqrt{n}. We apply a technique, reducing the general case to the case of Haar and Rademacher sums, that allows also establish a sub-Gaussian estimate \begin{equation} {\bf E}\left[\exp\left(\lambda\cdot \left(\frac{\sum_{k=1}^nd_k}{\|\mathfrak S(d)\|_\infty}\right)^2\right)\right]\le \frac{1}{\sqrt{1-2\lambda}},\quad 0<\lambda<1/2, \end{equation} where the constant on the right hand side is the best possible.

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@article{arxiv.2401.16153,
  title  = {On the best constants in Khintchine type inequalities for martingales},
  author = {Grigori A. Karagulyan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.16153},
  year   = {2025}
}

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