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The Fenchel-Young inequality is fundamental in Convex Analysis and Optimization. It states that the difference between certain function values of two vectors and their inner product is nonnegative. Recently, Carlier introduced a very nice…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Heinz H. Bauschke , Shambhavi Singh , Xianfu Wang

Introducing inequality constraints in Gaussian process (GP) models can lead to more realistic uncertainties in learning a great variety of real-world problems. We consider the finite-dimensional Gaussian approach from Maatouk and Bay (2017)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-04 Andrés F. López-Lopera , François Bachoc , Nicolas Durrande , Olivier Roustant

In this paper we derive tight bounds on the expected value of products of {\em low influence} functions defined on correlated probability spaces. The proofs are based on extending Fourier theory to an arbitrary number of correlated…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-06-01 Elchanan Mossel

We find two-sided inequalities for the generalized hypergeometric function of the form ${_{q+1}}F_{q}(-x)$ with positive parameters restricted by certain additional conditions. Both lower and upper bounds agree with the value of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-02-03 D. Karp , S. M. Sitnik

A simple derivation of a meaningful, manifestly covariant inner product for real Klein-Gordon (KG) fields with positive semi-definite norm is provided which turns out - assuming a symmetric bilinear form - to be the real-KG-field limit of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Kleefeld

The classical hypercontractive inequality for the noise operator on the discrete cube plays a crucial role in many of the fundamental results in the Analysis of Boolean functions, such as the KKL (Kahn-Kalai-Linial) theorem, Friedgut's…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-14 Peter Keevash , Noam Lifshitz , Eoin Long , Dor Minzer

Within the framework of the search for the still unknown exact value of the real and complex Grothendieck constant $K_G^\mathbb{F}$ in the famous Grothendieck inequality (unsolved since 1953), where $\mathbb{F}$ denotes either the real or…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Frank Oertel

Gaussian process (GP) regression is a fundamental tool in Bayesian statistics. It is also known as kriging and is the Bayesian counterpart to the frequentist kernel ridge regression. Most of the theoretical work on GP regression has focused…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-27 Simon Barthelmé , Pierre-Olivier Amblard , Nicolas Tremblay , Konstantin Usevich

In this note, we provide an adaptation of the Kohler-Jobin rearrangement technique to the setting of the Gauss space. As a result, we prove the Gaussian analogue of the Kohler-Jobin's resolution of a conjecture of P\'{o}lya-Szeg\"o: when…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Orli Herscovici , Galyna V. Livshyts

We investigate the intrinsic ambiguity in the definition of correlation functions arising from the inevitable invasiveness of quantum measurements. While algebraic correlations defined as expectation values of products of observables are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 Shun Umekawa , Jaeha Lee

We show that correlation functions have to satisfy contraint relations, owing to the non-negativity of the power spectrum of the underlying random process. Specifically, for any statistically homogeneous and (for more than one spatial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Peter Schneider , Jan Hartlap

Context. In previous work, we developed a quasi-Gaussian approximation for the likelihood of correlation functions, which, in contrast to the usual Gaussian approach, incorporates fundamental mathematical constraints on correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 Philipp Wilking , Randolf Röseler , Peter Schneider

We fuse between the Rogers-Shephard inequality for the Lebesgue measure and Royen's Gaussian Correlation Inequality, simultaneously extending both into a single sharp inequality for the Gaussian measure $\gamma$ on $\mathbb{R}^n$, stating…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Emanuel Milman , Shohei Nakamura , Hiroshi Tsuji

In a recent paper, we presented a new definition of influences in product spaces of continuous distributions, and showed that analogues of the most fundamental results on discrete influences, such as the KKL theorem, hold for the new…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-06-07 Nathan Keller , Elchanan Mossel , Arnab Sen

The classical correlation inequality of Harris asserts that any two monotone increasing families on the discrete cube are nonnegatively correlated. In 1996, Talagrand established a lower bound on the correlation in terms of how much the two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-17 Gil Kalai , Nathan Keller , Elchanan Mossel

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…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Kevin Tanguy

We extend three related results from the analysis of influences of Boolean functions to the quantum setting, namely the KKL Theorem, Friedgut's Junta Theorem and Talagrand's variance inequality for geometric influences. Our results are…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-05 Cambyse Rouzé , Melchior Wirth , Haonan Zhang

The BKR inequality conjectured by van den Berg and Kesten in [11], and proved by Reimer in [8], states that for $A$ and $B$ events on $S$, a finite product of finite sets $S_i,i=1,\ldots,n$, and $P$ any product measure on $S$, $$ P(A \Box…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-09-15 Larry Goldstein , Yosef Rinott

We are interested in the problem of characterizing the correlations that arise when performing local measurements on separate quantum systems. In a previous work [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 010401 (2007)], we introduced an infinite hierarchy of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-16 Miguel Navascues , Stefano Pironio , Antonio Acin

We prove a very general sharp inequality of the H\"older--Young--type for functions defined on infinite dimensional Gaussian spaces. We begin by considering a family of commutative products for functions which interpolates between the…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-04-24 Paolo Da Pelo , Alberto Lanconelli , Aurel I. Stan