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On the distance between probability density functions

Probability 2016-04-07 v1

Abstract

We give estimates of the distance between the densities of the laws of two functionals FF and GG on the Wiener space in terms of the Malliavin-Sobolev norm of FG.F-G. We actually consider a more general framework which allows one to treat with similar (Malliavin type) methods functionals of a Poisson point measure (solutions of jump type stochastic equations). We use the above estimates in order to obtain a criterion which ensures that convergence in distribution implies convergence in total variation distance; in particular, if the functionals at hand are absolutely continuous, this implies convergence in L1L^{1} of the densities.

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@article{arxiv.1311.7555,
  title  = {On the distance between probability density functions},
  author = {Vlad Bally and Lucia Caramellino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.7555},
  year   = {2016}
}
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