Hi all,
For my research I am trying to bound some exponential moments of subgaussian r.v.'s. And I am stuck with proving one of such inequalities. More specifically:
Let $a$ be unit vector in $\mathcal{R}^{n}$ and $w_{i}$, $i =1,2,...,n$, be $n$ i.i.d Rademacher rv's. Also let $v = \sum_{i}^{n} a_{i}w_{i}$. I know that $\forall 0 < t < \frac{1}{2} , \; {\mathbb E} (e^{tv^{2}}) \leq {\mathbb E}(e^{t z^{2}})$, where $z$ is standard normal r.v. and independent of $w_{i}$'s.
Now my question is: would this inequality also works if we change the sign on $t$? i.e.:
$$ \forall t > 0 , \; {\mathbb E} (e^{-tv^{2}}) \leq {\mathbb E}(e^{-t z^{2}}) $$
I have run many numerical experiments and it seems to be correct, but I am yet to prove it.
What I have done so far is as follows:
\begin{equation} {\mathbb E_v}(e^{-tv^{2}}) = {\mathbb E_{z}}{\mathbb E_{v}}(e^{i\sqrt{2t}vz}) = {\mathbb E_{z}} \prod_{i=1}^{n} {\mathbb E_{w_{i}}}(e^{i\sqrt{2t}a_{i} w_{i} z}) = {\mathbb E_{z}} \prod_{i=1}^{n} (cos(\sqrt{2t}a_{i}z)) \end{equation}
but I am stuck here (not even sure if what I have done is going to get me anywhere at all). This must be something that someone out there should know about, I am hoping.
Any help, suggestion or pointers would be greatly appreciate it.
Cheers and thanks for reading
Fred