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We refine the classical Cauchy--Schwartz inequality $\|X\|_{1} \leq \|X\|_{2}$ by demonstrating that for any $p$ and $q$ with $q>p>2$, there exists a constant $C=C(p,q)$ such that $\|X\|_1 \leq 1 - C \Big{(}\|X\|_p^p -…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Paata Ivanisvili , Yonathan Stone

We prove bounds for the number of solutions to $$a_1 + \dots + a_k = a_1' + \dots + a_k'$$ over $N$-element sets of reals, which are sufficiently convex or near-convex. A near-convex set will be the image of a set with small additive…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-26 Peter J. Bradshaw , Brandon Hanson , Misha Rudnev

We prove the bulk universality of the $\beta$-ensembles with non-convex regular analytic potentials for any $\beta>0$. This removes the convexity assumption appeared in our earlier work. The convexity condition enabled us to use the…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Paul Bourgade , Laszlo Erdos , Horng-Tzer Yau

Let p_n denote the persistence probability that the first n iterated partial sums of integrable, zero-mean, i.i.d. random variables X_k, are negative. We show that p_n is bounded above up to universal constant by the square root of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-02-01 Amir Dembo , Fuchang Gao

We show that for some constant $\kappa>0$, any centered $\kappa$-subgaussian random variable is equal to the sum of three standard Gaussian random variables, confirming a conjecture of M. Talagrand. We also prove that given $\Lambda\geq 1$,…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Antoine Song

Let $K \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ be a centered convex body of volume one. We prove that there exist absolute constants $c,C > 0$ and an orthonormal set of vectors $\Theta \subset S^{n-1}$ with size $\left|\Theta\right| \ge 9n/10$ such that, if…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Brayden Letwin , Dan Mikulincer

Let $X:=(X_t)_{t\geq 0}$ be an ergodic Markov process on $\real^d$, and $p>0$. We derive upper bounds of the $p$-Wasserstein distance between the invariant measure and the empirical measures of the Markov process $X$. For this we assume,…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-30 René L. Schilling , Jian Wang , Bingyao Wu , Jie-Xiang Zhu

We prove that if the Sobolev embedding $M^{1,p}(X)\hookrightarrow L^q(X)$ holds for some $q>p\geq 1$ in a metric measure space $(X,d,\mu),$ then a constant $C$ exists such that $\mu(B(x,r))\geq Cr^n$ for all $x\in X$ and all $0<r\leq 1,$…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-16 Nijjwal Karak

The normalised volume measure on the $\ell_p^n$ unit ball ($1\leq p\leq 2$) satisfies the following isoperimetric inequality: the boundary measure of a set of measure $a$ is at least $cn^{1/p}\tilde{a}\log^{1-1/p}(1/\tilde{a})$, where…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-05-27 Sasha Sodin

Necessary and sufficient conditions of uniform consistency are explored. A hypothesis is simple. Nonparametric sets of alternatives are bounded convex sets in $\mathbb{L}_p$, $p >1$ with "small" balls deleted. The "small" balls have the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-07 Mikhail Ermakov

Say $X_1,X_2,\ldots$ are independent identically distributed Bernoulli random variables with mean $p$. This paper builds a new estimate $\hat p$ of $p$ that has the property that the relative error, $\hat p /p - 1$, of the estimate does not…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-18 Mark Huber

Let $X$ be a locally compact Polish space. A random measure on $X$ is a probability measure on the space of all (nonnegative) Radon measures on $X$. Denote by $\mathbb K(X)$ the cone of all Radon measures $\eta$ on $X$ which are of the form…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Yuri Kondratiev , Tobias Kuna , Eugene Lytvynov

Methods for measuring convexity defects of compacts in R^n abound. However, none of the those measures seems to take into account continuity. Continuity in convexity measure is essential for optimization, stability analysis, global…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Abel Douzal , Ferdinand Jacobé de Naurois

We establish a general concentration result for the 1-Wasserstein distance between the empirical measure of a sequence of random variables and its expectation. Unlike standard results that rely on independence (e.g., Sanov's theorem) or…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Arash A. Amini , Luciano Vinas

Given a triangular array $\left\{X_{n,k}, \, 1 \leqslant k \leqslant n, n \geqslant 1 \right\}$ of random variables satisfying $\mathbb{E} \lvert X_{n,k} \rvert^{p} < \infty$ for some $p \geqslant 1$ and sequences $\{b_{n} \}$, $\{c_{n} \}$…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-08-12 João Lita da Silva

We present a theoretical and numerical analysis of Monte Carlo methods for the estimation of statistical moments of random variables $X:\Omega\rightarrow E$ taking values in a Banach space $E$. For practical computation, we consider…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Kristin Kirchner , Fabio Nobile , Christoph Schwab , Tommaso Vanzan

We prove that in the context of general Markov semigroups Beckner inequalities with constants separated from zero as $p\to 1^+$ are equivalent to the modified log Sobolev inequality (previously only one implication was known to hold in this…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Radosław Adamczak , Bartłomiej Polaczyk , Michał Strzelecki

We prove that a probability measure on the real line has a moment of order p (even integer), if and only if its R-transform admits a Taylor expansion with p terms. We also prove a weaker version of this result when p is odd. Then, we apply…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Florent Benaych-Georges

Stochastic convex optimization is one of the most well-studied models for learning in modern machine learning. Nevertheless, a central fundamental question in this setup remained unresolved: "How many data points must be observed so that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Daniel Carmon , Roi Livni , Amir Yehudayoff

Let $X$ be an observable random variable with unknown distribution function $F(x) = \mathbb{P}(X \leq x), - \infty < x < \infty$, and let \[\ \theta = \sup\left \{ r \geq 0:~ \mathbb{E}|X|^{r} < \infty \right \}. \] We call $\theta$ the…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-04-03 Shuhua Chang , Deli Li , Yongcheng Qi , Andrew Rosalsky