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We establish several optimal moment comparison inequalities (Khinchin-type inequalities) for weighted sums of independent identically distributed symmetric discrete random variables which are uniform on sets of consecutive integers.…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Alex Havrilla , Tomasz Tkocz

We obtain Rosenthal-type inequalities with sharp constants for moments of sums of independent random variables which are mixtures of a fixed distribution. We also identify extremisers in log-concave settings when the moments of summands are…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Giorgos Chasapis , Alexandros Eskenazis , Tomasz Tkocz

We sharpen the moment comparison inequalities with sharp constants for sums of random vectors uniform on Euclidean spheres, providing a deficit term (optimal in high dimensions).

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Jacek Jakimiuk , Colin Tang , Tomasz Tkocz

We establish a sharp moment comparison inequality between an arbitrary negative moment and the second moment for sums of independent uniform random variables, which extends Ball's cube slicing inequality.

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Giorgos Chasapis , Hermann König , Tomasz Tkocz

We prove a sharp moment inequality for a log-concave or a log-convex function, on Gaussian random vectors. As an application we take a stability result for the classical logarithmic Sobolev inequality of L. Gross in the case where the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-10-17 Nikos Dafnis , Grigoris Paouris

We derive new comparison inequalities between weak and strong moments of norms of random vectors with optimal (up to an universal factor) constants. We discuss applications to the concentration of log-concave random vectors and bounds on…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Rafał Latała , Piotr Nayar

The discrete moment problem is a foundational problem in distribution-free robust optimization, where the goal is to find a worst-case distribution that satisfies a given set of moments. This paper studies the discrete moment problems with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Xi Chen , Simai He , Bo Jiang , Christopher Thomas Ryan , Teng Zhang

A symmetric random variable is called a Gaussian mixture if it has the same distribution as the product of two independent random variables, one being positive and the other a standard Gaussian random variable. Examples of Gaussian mixtures…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-18 Alexandros Eskenazis , Piotr Nayar , Tomasz Tkocz

The moment problem in probability theory asks for criteria for when there exists a unique measure with a given tuple of moments. We study a variant of this problem for random objects in a category, where a moment is given by the average…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-05-10 Will Sawin , Melanie Matchett Wood

In this paper, we will use a suitable tranform to investigate the sharp constants and optimizers for the following Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalities for a wide range of parameters $(r,p,q,s,\mu,\sigma)$ and $0\leq a\leq1$:…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-06 Nguyen Lam , Guozhen Lu

Concentration inequalities, a major tool in probability theory, quantify how much a random variable deviates from a certain quantity. This paper proposes a systematic convex optimization approach to studying and generating concentration…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Celine Moucer , Adrien Taylor , Francis Bach

We study the moments and the distribution of the discrete Choquet integral when regarded as a real function of a random sample drawn from a continuous distribution. Since the discrete Choquet integral includes weighted arithmetic means,…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Ivan Kojadinovic , Jean-Luc Marichal

The present paper concentrates on the analogues of Rosenthal's inequalities for ordinary and decoupled bilinear forms in symmetric random variables. More specifically, we prove the exact moment inequalities for these objects in terms of…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 R. Ibragimov , Sh. Sharakhmetov , A. Cecen

We investigate the sharp endpoint extension inequality for the moment curve in finite fields. We determine the optimal constant and characterize the maximizers in two complementary regimes: (i) low dimensions $d\leq 20$; (ii) large field…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Chandan Biswas , Emanuel Carneiro , Taryn C. Flock , Diogo Oliveira e Silva , Betsy Stovall , James Tautges

We prove a sharp upper bound on negative moments of sums of independent Steinhaus random variables (that is uniform on circles in the plane). Together with the series of earlier works: K\"onig-Kwapie\'n (2001), Baernstein II-Culverhouse…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Martin Rapaport , Tomasz Tkocz , Isabella Wu

For a random variable with a unimodal distribution and finite second moment Gau\ss \, (1823) proved a sharp bound on the probability of the random variable to be outside a symmetric interval around its mode. An alternative proof for it is…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Chris A. J. Klaassen

Fractional moments have been investigated by many authors to represent the density of univariate and bivariate random variables in different contexts. Fractional moments are indeed important when the density of the random variable has…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-18 Giulio Cottone , Mario Di Paola , Ralf Metzler

We show that every symmetric random variable with log-concave tails satisfies the convex infimum convolution inequality with an optimal cost function (up to scaling). As a result, we obtain nearly optimal comparison of weak and strong…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Marta Strzelecka , Michał Strzelecki , Tomasz Tkocz

For a random vector X in R^n, we obtain bounds on the size of a sample, for which the empirical p-th moments of linear functionals are close to the exact ones uniformly on an n-dimensional convex body K. We prove an estimate for a general…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Olivier Guedon , Mark Rudelson

We study the exact constants in the moment inequalities for sums of centered independent random variables: improve their asymptotics, low and upper bounds, calculate more exact asymptotics, elaborate the numerical algorithm for their…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 B. Naimark , E. Ostrovsky
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