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In distributional reinforcement learning not only expected returns but the complete return distributions of a policy are taken into account. The return distribution for a fixed policy is given as the solution of an associated distributional…

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We present the construction of a theory of distributions (generalized functions) with a ``thick submanifold'', that is, a new theory of thick distributions on $\mathbb{R}^n$ whose domain contains a smooth submanifold on which the test…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Jiajia Ding , Jasson Vindas , Yunyun Yang

We survey some of the recent advances in mean estimation and regression function estimation. In particular, we describe sub-Gaussian mean estimators for possibly heavy-tailed data both in the univariate and multivariate settings. We focus…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-12 Gabor Lugosi , Shahar Mendelson

Preferential attachment is widely used to model power-law behavior of degree distributions in both directed and undirected networks. In a directed preferential attachment model, despite the well-known marginal power-law degree…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-07 Tiandong Wang , Sidney I. Resnick

We show that if an essentially arbitrary sequence supported on an interval containing $x$ integers, is convolved with a tiny Siegel-Walfisz-type sequence supported on an interval containing $\exp((\log x)^{\varepsilon})$ integers then the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-11-22 Étienne Fouvry , Maksym Radziwiłł

We consider the tail distribution of the edge cover time of a specific non-Markov process, $\delta$ once-reinforced random walk, on finite connected graphs, whose transition probability is proportional to weights of edges. Here the weights…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Xiangyu Huang , Yong Liu , Kainan Xiang

At high levels, the asymptotic distribution of a stationary, regularly varying Markov chain is conveniently given by its tail process. The latter takes the form of a geometric random walk, the increment distribution depending on the sign of…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-12-11 Holger Drees , Johan Segers , Michał Warchoł

We study the distribution functions of several classical error terms in analytic number theory, focusing on the remainder term in the Dirichlet divisor problem $\Delta(x)$. We first bound the discrepancy between the distribution function of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-07 Youness Lamzouri

In this paper we prove pointwise and distributional Fourier transform inversion theorems for functions on the real line that are locally of bounded variation, while in a neighbourhood of infinity are Lebesgue integrable or have polynomial…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Erik Talvila

We show that an interesting class of functionals of stochastic differential equations can be approximated by a Chen-Fliess series of iterated stochastic integrals and give a L^{2} error estimate, thus generalizing the standard stochastic…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-11-10 Christian Litterer , Harald Oberhauser

In a general class of one dimensional random differential equation the convergence of the distribution function of the solution to stationary state distribution is studied. In particular it is proved the boundedness respectively the…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-07-07 Gyorgy Steinbrecher , Xavier Garbet , Boris Weyssow

We study the behaviour of the constant that is provided in the articles [12] and [13], which is connected with the determination of the Bellman function of three integral variables of the dyadic maximal operator. More precisely we study the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Eleftherios N. Nikolidakis

A theoretical expression is derived for the mean squared error of a nonparametric estimator of the tail dependence coefficient, depending on a threshold that defines which rank delimits the tails of a distribution. We propose a new method…

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The electromagnetic scattering of a spin-0 charged particle off a fixed center is calculated in first-order quantum perturbation theory. This implies evaluating the square of a `Dirac delta-function,' an operation that is not defined in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-09-16 Andre Gsponer

We study large deviation properties of probability distributions with either a compact support or a fat tail by comparing them with q-deformed exponential distributions. Our main result is a large deviation property for probability…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-02 Jan Naudts , Hiroki Suyari

Due to globalization and relaxed market regulation, we have assisted to an increasing of extremal dependence in international markets. As a consequence, several measures of tail dependence have been stated in literature in recent years,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-08-10 Helena Ferreira , Marta Ferreira

We prove singularity of some distributions of random continued fractions that correspond to iterated function systems with overlap and a parabolic point. These arose while studying the conductance of Galton-Watson trees.

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Russell Lyons

We investigate the application of the Adaptive Multilevel Splitting algorithm for the estimation of tail probabilities of solutions of Stochastic Differential Equations evaluated at a given time, and of associated temporal averages. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-27 Charles-Edouard Bréhier , Tony Lelièvre

The prime aim of the present paper is to continue developing the theory of tempered fractional integrals and derivatives of a function with respect to another function. This theory combines the tempered fractional calculus with the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Ashwini D. Mali , Kishor D. Kucche , Arran Fernandez , Hafiz Muhammad Fahad

We study the tail behaviour of measurable functions under generalized Riesz-type operators in the framework of Grand Lebesgue Spaces. By exploiting the connection between the growth of $L^p$ norms and the Young--Fenchel transform, we derive…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Maria Rosaria Formica , Eugene Ostrovsky , Leonid Sirota