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The square negative correlation property for generalized Orlicz balls

Probability 2008-03-05 v1 Functional Analysis

Abstract

Antilla, Ball and Perissinaki proved that the squares of coordinate functions in pn\ell_p^n are negatively correlated. This paper extends their results to balls in generalized Orlicz norms on R^n. From this, the concentration of the Euclidean norm and a form of the Central Limit Theorem for the generalized Orlicz balls is deduced. Also, a counterexample for the square negative correlation hypothesis for 1-symmetric bodies is given. Currently the CLT is known in full generality for convex bodies (see the paper "Power-law estimates for the central limit theorem for convex sets" by B. Klartag), while for generalized Orlicz balls a much more general result is true (see "The negative association property for the absolute values of random variables equidistributed on a generalized Orlicz ball" by M. Pilipczuk and J. O. Wojtaszczyk). While, however, both aforementioned papers are rather long, complicated and technical, this paper gives a simple and elementary proof of, eg., the Euclidean concentration for generalized Orlicz balls.

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@article{arxiv.0803.0433,
  title  = {The square negative correlation property for generalized Orlicz balls},
  author = {Jakub Onufry Wojtaszczyk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.0433},
  year   = {2008}
}

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