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Consider the well-known Langevin diffusion on $\mathbb{R}^d$ $$\mathrm{d} X_t = -\nabla U(X_t)\,\mathrm{d} t + \sqrt{2}\mathrm{d} B_t, $$ and its Euler-Maruyama discretization given by $$X_{k+1}=X_k-\eta \nabla U(X_k)+\sqrt{2\eta…

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Let $X=\{X_j , j\ge 1\}$ be a sequence of independent, square integrable variables taking values in a common lattice $\mathcal L(v_{ 0},D )= \{v_{ k}=v_{ 0}+D k , k\in \Z\}$. Let $S_n=X_1+\ldots +X_n$, $a_n= {\mathbb E\,} S_n$, and…

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