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Computational pseudorandomness studies the extent to which a random variable $\bf{Z}$ looks like the uniform distribution according to a class of tests $\cal{F}$. Computational entropy generalizes computational pseudorandomness by studying…

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Doob's theorem provides guarantees of consistent estimation and posterior consistency under very general conditions. Despite the limitation that it only guarantees consistency on a set with prior probability 1, for many models arising in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-11 Jeffrey W. Miller

For n>=1 let X_n be a vector of n independent Bernoulli random variables. We assume that X_n consists of M "blocks" such that the Bernoulli random variables in block i have success probability p_i. Here M does not depend on n and the size…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-08-15 Erik Broman , Tim van de Brug , Wouter Kager , Ronald Meester

We give a new proof of the classical Central Limit Theorem, in the Mallows ($L^r$-Wasserstein) distance. Our proof is elementary in the sense that it does not require complex analysis, but rather makes use of a simple subadditive inequality…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Oliver Johnson , Richard Samworth

We study the convergence of stochastic fixed point iterations in the consistent case (in the sense of Butnariu and Fl{\aa}m (1995)) in several different settings, under decreasingly restrictive regularity assumptions of the fixed point…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-26 Neal Hermer , D. Russell Luke , Anja Sturm

We study limit theorems for partial sums of instantaneous functions of a homogeneous Markov chain on a general state space. The summands are heavy-tailed and the limits are stable distributions. The conditions imposed on the transition…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Mohamed El Machkouri , Adam Jakubowski , Dalibor Volný

A local convergence rate is established for a Gauss orthogonal collocation method applied to optimal control problems with control constraints. If the Hamiltonian possesses a strong convexity property, then the theory yields convergence for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-17 William W. Hager , Jun Liu , Subhashree Mohapatra , Anil V. Rao , Xiang-Sheng Wang

We give a new proof of Tietze Theorem on the convergence of infinite semi-regular continued fractions.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-11 Daniel Duverney , Iekata Shiokawa

We show that there exists $c>0$ such that any subset of $\{1, \dots, N\}$ of density at least $(\log\log{N})^{-c}$ contains a nontrivial progression of the form $x,x+y,x+y^2$. This is the first quantitatively effective version of the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-10 Sarah Peluse , Sean Prendiville

We provide a general theorem on the asymptotic behavior of stochastic processes that conform to a relaxed supermartingale condition. The distinguishing feature of our result is that it provides quantitative convergence guarantees at a much…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Morenikeji Neri , Nicholas Pischke , Thomas Powell

We define the probability of an equation in a finite algebra as the proportion of tuples in its domain that satisfy it. We call the probabilistic spectrum of an algebra the set of probability values obtained when the equation varies. We…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Carles Cardó

A multi-type branching process is defined as a random tree with labeled vertices, where each vertex produces offspring independently according to the same multivariate probability distribution. We demonstrate that in realizations of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-31 Jochem Hoogendijk , Ivan Kryven , Rik Versendaal

Nourdin et al. [9] established the following universality result: if a sequence of off-diagonal homogeneous polynomial forms in i.i.d. standard normal random variables converges in distribution to a normal, then the convergence also holds…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-15 Shuyang Bai , Murad S. Taqqu

We prove a Fourier restriction estimate under the assumption that certain convolution power of the measure admits an $r$-integrable density.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-04-15 Xianghong Chen

We give a stability theoretic proof of the algebraic regularity lemma of Tao, making use of a lemma of Hrushovski. We also point out that the underlying results hold at the level of measurable theories and structures in the sense of Elwes,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-10-29 Anand Pillay , Sergei Starchenko

An algorithm is proposed, analyzed, and tested for solving continuous nonlinear-equality-constrained optimization problems where the objective and constraint functions are defined by expectations or averages over large, finite numbers of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Frank E. Curtis , Lingjun Guo , Daniel P. Robinson

We develop the complex-analytic viewpoint on the tree convolutions studied by the second author and Weihua Liu in "An operad of non-commutative independences defined by trees" (Dissertationes Mathematicae, 2020, doi:10.4064/dm797-6-2020),…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Ethan Davis , David Jekel , Zhichao Wang

We obtain functional central limit theorems for both discrete time expressions of the form $1/\sqrt{N}\sum_{n=1}^{[Nt]}(F(X(q_1(n)),\ldots, X(q_{\ell}(n)))-\bar{F})$ and similar expressions in the continuous time where the sum is replaced…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Yuri Kifer , S. R. S. Varadhan

Let $\{X, X_n, n\geq 1\}$ be a sequence of independent identically distributed non-degenerate random variables. Put $S_0=0, S_n = \sum^n_{i=1} X_i$ and $V_n^2=\sum^n_{i=1} X_i^2, n\ge 1.$ A weak convergence theorem is established for the…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-06-21 Miklós Csörgő , Zhishui Hu

The nervous system reorganizes memories from an early site to a late site, a commonly observed feature of learning and memory systems known as systems consolidation. Previous work has suggested learning rules by which consolidation may…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-11 Alireza Alemi , Emre R. F. Aksay , Mark S. Goldman