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We estimate the concentration functions of $n$-fold convolutions of one-dimensional probability measures. The main result is a supplement to the results of G\"otze and Zaitsev (1998). We show that the estimation of concentration functions…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-02-28 F. Götze , A. Yu. Zaitsev

We consider the one-dimensional Littlewood-Offord problem for general Ising models. More precisely, we consider the concentration function \[Q_n(x,v)=P\left(\sum_{i=1}^{n}\varepsilon_iv_i\in(x-1,x+1)\right),\] where $x\in\mathbb{R}$,…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Yinshan Chang

This paper concerns the estimation of sums of functions of observable and unobservable variables. Lower bounds for the asymptotic variance and a convolution theorem are derived in general finite- and infinite-dimensional models. An explicit…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Cun-Hui Zhang

Consider the sum $X(\xi)=\sum_{i=1}^n a_i\xi_i$, where $a=(a_i)_{i=1}^n$ is a sequence of non-zero reals and $\xi=(\xi_i)_{i=1}^n$ is a sequence of i.i.d. Rademacher random variables (that is, $\Pr[\xi_i=1]=\Pr[\xi_i=-1]=1/2$). The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-04 Afonso S. Bandeira , Asaf Ferber , Matthew Kwan

Let $X,X_1,\ldots,X_n$ be independent identically distributed random variables. The paper deals with the question about the behavior of the concentration function of the random variable $\sum\limits_{k=1}^{n}X_k a_k$ according to the…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-03-19 Yu. S. Eliseeva

The Littlewood-Offord problem is a classical question in probability theory and discrete mathematics, proposed, firstly by Littlewood and Offord in the 1940s. Given a set $A$ of integer, this problem asks for an upper bound on the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Simone Costa

We present a concentration result concerning random weighted projections in high dimensional spaces. As applications, we prove (1) New concentration inequalities for random quadratic forms; (2) The infinity norm of most unit eigenvectors of…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-08-19 Van Vu , Ke Wang

Let $\epsilon_1, \dotsc, \epsilon_n$ be i.i.d. Rademacher random variables taking values $\pm 1$ with probability $1/2$ each. Given an integer vector $\boldsymbol{a} = (a_1, \dotsc, a_n)$, its concentration probability is the quantity…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-24 Asaf Ferber , Vishesh Jain , Kyle Luh , Wojciech Samotij

Existing results for the estimation of the L\'evy measure are mostly limited to the onedimensional setting. We apply the spectral method to multidimensional L\'evy processes in order to construct a nonparametric estimator for the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-24 Maximilian F. Steffen

We present an extension of the famous Littlewood-Offord problem when Bernoulli distributions are replaced with discrete log-concave distributions. A variant of the Littlewood-Offord problem for arithmetic progressions, as well as an…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Arnaud Marsiglietti , James Melbourne

Under the assumption of the Riemann Hypothesis, the Linear Independence Hypothesis, and a bound on negative discrete moments of the Riemann zeta function, we prove the existence of a limiting logarithmic distribution of the normalisation of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-01-14 Peter Humphries

Given a low frequency sample of an infinitely divisible moving average random field $\{\int_{\mathbb{R}^d} f(x-t)\Lambda(dx); \ t \in \mathbb{R}^d \}$ with a known simple function $f$, we study the problem of nonparametric estimation of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-29 Wolfgang Karcher , Stefan Roth , Evgeny Spodarev , Corinna Walk

This is a survey article about recent developments in dimension-free estimates for maximal functions corresponding to the Hardy--Littlewood averaging operators associated with convex symmetric bodies in $\mathbb R^d$ and $\mathbb Z^d$.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Jean Bourgain , Mariusz Mirek , Elias M. Stein , Błażej Wróbel

We study the problem of estimating a distribution over a finite alphabet from an i.i.d. sample, with accuracy measured in relative entropy (Kullback-Leibler divergence). While optimal bounds on the expected risk are known, high-probability…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Jaouad Mourtada

We derive novel concentration inequalities that bound the statistical error for a large class of stochastic optimization problems, focusing on the case of unbounded objective functions. Our derivations utilize the following key tools: 1) A…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-01 Jeremiah Birrell

In this article we generalize the classical Edgeworth expansion for the probability density function (PDF) of sums of a finite number of symmetric independent identically distributed random variables with a finite variance to sums of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 Netanel Hazut , Shlomi Medalion , David A. Kessler , Eli Barkai

``Orderly divergence'' deals with limit theorems for weighted stochastic Gamma integrals of otherwise nonintegrable functions. Although for monotonic functions this category usually coincides with the classical notion of weighted limit…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-03 Jerzy Szulga

This paper considers how to measure the magnitude of the sum of independent random variables in several ways. We give a formula for the tail distribution for sequences that satisfy the so called Levy property. We then give a connection…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pawel Hitczenko , Stephen Montgomery-Smith

The concentration of empirical measures is studied for dependent data, whose joint distribution satisfies Poincar\'{e}-type or logarithmic Sobolev inequalities. The general concentration results are then applied to spectral empirical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-11-30 S. G. Bobkov , F. Götze

We derive concentration inequalities for functions of the empirical measure of large random matrices with infinitely divisible entries and, in particular, stable ones. We also give concentration results for some other functionals of these…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Christian Houdré , Hua Xu