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This note is concerned with an extension, at second order, of an inequality on the discrete cube $C_n=\{-1,1\}$ (equipped with the uniform measure) due to Talagrand (\cite{TalL1L2}). As an application, the main result of this note is a…

In this PhD thesis, we apply a combination of Malliavin calculus and Stein's method in the framework of probability approximations. The specific problems we tackle with these methods are motivated by probabilistic models in cosmology (Part…

We design an algorithm which finds an $\epsilon$-approximate stationary point (with $\|\nabla F(x)\|\le \epsilon$) using $O(\epsilon^{-3})$ stochastic gradient and Hessian-vector products, matching guarantees that were previously available…

We propose a novel coupling inequality of the min-max type for two random matrices with finite absolute third moments, which generalizes the quantitative versions of the well-known inequalities by Gordon. Previous results have calculated…

This paper studies the convergence rates of optimal transport (OT) map estimators, a topic of growing interest in statistics, machine learning, and various scientific fields. Despite recent advancements, existing results rely on regularity…

We present a general numerical method for computing guaranteed two-sided bounds for principal eigenvalues of symmetric linear elliptic differential operators. The approach is based on the Galerkin method, on the method of a priori-a…

The local maximal inequality for the Schr\"{o}dinger operators of order $\a>1$ is shown to be bounded from $H^s(\R^2)$ to $L^2$ for any $s>\frac38$. This improves the previous result of Sj\"{o}lin on the regularity of solutions to…

We study self-improving properties in the scale of Lebesgue spaces of generalized Poincar\'e inequalities in the Euclidean space. We present an abstract setting where oscillations are given by certain operators (e.g., approximations of the…

We obtain improved fractional Poincar\'e inequalities in John domains of a metric space $(X, d)$ endowed with a doubling measure $\mu$ under some mild regularity conditions on the measure $\mu$. We also give sufficient conditions on a…

Using an approach recently developed by Nourdin and Poly, we improve the rate in an inequality for the total variation distance between two double Wiener-It\^o integrals originally due to Davydov and Martynova. An application to the rate of…

This paper sheds new light on several interrelated topics of second-order variational analysis, both in finite and infinite-dimensional settings. We establish new relationships between second-order growth conditions on functions, the basic…

In the paper we obtain some new applications of well--known W. Rudin's theorem concerning lacunary series to problems of combinatorial number theory. We generalize a result of M.-C. Chang on L_2 (L)-norm of Fourier coefficients of a set…

Our interest in this paper is to explore limit theorems for various geometric functionals of excursion sets of isotropic Gaussian random fields. In the past, limit theorems have been proven for various geometric functionals of excursion…

We establish generalized Gaussian bounds and local limit theorems with Gaussian-type error for the convolution powers of certain complex-valued functions on $\mathbb{Z}^d$. These global space-times estimates/error, which are sharp in…

In this paper, we obtain various series and asymptotic expansions involving the modified Bessel function of the second kind for the normal inverse Gaussian cumulative distribution function. The new expansions accelerate computations,…

Second order information is useful in many ways in smooth optimization problems, including for the design of step size rules and descent directions, or the analysis of the local properties of the objective functional. However, the…

The Riccati equation method is used to establish some oscillatory criteria for the second order linear functional - differential equations of multiple terms with locally integrable coefficients. An interval oscillation criterion for the…

We derive inequality [\int_{\r} |f^{'}(x)|^ph(f(x))dx \le (\sqrt{p-1})^p\int_{\r}(\sqrt{|f^{"}(x){\cal T}_h(f(x))|})^ph(f(x))dx,] where $f$ belongs locally to Sobolev space $W^{2,1}$ and $f^{'}$ has bounded support. Here $h(...)$ is a given…

We address the problem of minimizing a smooth function under smooth equality constraints. Under regularity assumptions on these constraints, we propose a notion of approximate first- and second-order critical point which relies on the…

Continuing the analysis initiated in Lachi\'eze-Rey and Peccati (2011), we use contraction operators to study the normal approximation of random variables having the form of a U-statistic written on the points in the support of a random…