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Sharpening the probabilistic Arithmetic-Geometric Mean Inequality

Probability 2021-12-09 v1

Abstract

We consider the pp-generalized arithmetic-geometric mean inequality for vectors chosen randomly from the pn\ell_p^n-ball in Rn\mathbb{R}^n. In this setting the inequality can be improved or reversed up to a respective scalar constant with high probability, and central limit theorems and large deviation results with respect to this constant have been shown. We sharpen these large deviation results in the spirit of Bahadur and Ranga Rao, thereby providing concrete and asymptotically exact estimates on a non-logarithmic scale for the probability of the inequality being improvable or reversible up to a constant, respectively.

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@article{arxiv.2112.04340,
  title  = {Sharpening the probabilistic Arithmetic-Geometric Mean Inequality},
  author = {Tom Kaufmann and Christoph Thäle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.04340},
  year   = {2021}
}

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12 pages

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