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Are the ordinates of the non-trivial zeros of $\zeta(s)$ uniformly distributed around the mid points of Gram point intervals they can be mapped to?
Let $\rho_n$ be the $n$-th non-trivial zero of $\zeta(s)$ and $z_n = \Im(\rho_n)$ with $z_n > 0$ and $z_{n+1} \ge z_n$.
A well known method to establish that all $\rho$s reside on the critical line ...
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Which orthant probabilities are the largest? (For a multivariate normal distribution)
I have a $k$-dimensional multivariate normal distribution $X∼N(0,\Sigma)$ with covariance matrix $\Sigma$. $\Sigma$ has two distinct eigenvalues, say $\lambda_1 > \lambda_2$, with orthogonal ...
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Anti-concentration inequality for Gaussian random vector
I am trying to obtain an explicit expression for $C$ in terms of $b$ in the following inequality.
Suppose that $Y$ is a centred Gaussian random vector in $\mathbb R^p$ such that $\operatorname EY_j^...
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anti-concentration of multi-linear polynomials in Gaussian variables
A Gaussian variable $X_i\sim {\cal N}(0,1)$ is anti-concentrated in the following sense: for any $\epsilon>0$ we have:
$$
\mathbf{P}( |X_i| \leq \epsilon ) = O(\epsilon).
$$
Hence if we consider a ...
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L^1 maximal inequalities for the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck semigroup in infinite dimension
For an infinite-dimensional Gaussian random vector $X$ consider the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck maximal operator:
$M f(X) := \sup_{\rho \in [0,1]} \mathsf{E} [f(\rho X + (1-\rho^2)^{1/2} X^\prime) \mid X]$
(...
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envelope function for a linear combination of gaussian distributions
Given a distribution $F$ defined as a linear combination of Gaussian distributions:
$F = \sum_{i=1}^n C_i*N(\mu_i,\sigma_i)$ with $\sum_{i=1}^n C_i = 1$
I want to find a Gaussian function $Q = a*e^{\...
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Hubbard-Stratonovich Transformation
Hello,
The Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation
$\exp(x^2) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{4 \pi}} \int_{-\infty}^{+\infty} du \exp(-\frac{u^2}{4} - xu)$
allows one to wirte the exponential of a the square of a ...
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Approximation of integral of gaussian function over a parallelepiped
Remark: I posted this question in math stackexchange here and computer science stackexchange https://cs.stackexchange.com/ few weeks ago but obtain no answer.
Given a multi-dimensional gaussian ...
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Max / Argmax of a function which includes sums of Gaussian CDFs and PDFs can surprisingly be approximated by a power law
Given $N\in\mathbb{N}$, I have been trying to calculate $m_N=\text{max}_{x\in\mathbb{R}^{+}}\chi_N(x), d_N=\text{argmax}_{x\in\mathbb{R}^{+}}\chi_N(x)$ for the function:
$$\chi_N(x)=\frac{\sum_{i\in ...
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How well does an estimator perform on another dataset?
Suppose $X \sim N(0, \Sigma)$ is a $d$-dimensional Gaussian random vector. And we have $2n$ $i.i.d$ sample $X_1, \ldots, X_{n}, \ldots, X_{2n}$.
Let $\hat{\Sigma}_1 = \frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^nX_i X_i^\...
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Level sets of linear combinations of Gaussians
I am trying to work out whether level sets of linear combinations of Gaussian functions are unique.
For a given integer $n\ge 1$, fix $n$ points $x_i\in\mathbb{R}^d$ and $\sigma>0$. Let $\mathcal{...
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Seeking a precedent – two-stage Gaussian integration?
Sometimes, by iteration, linear algebra can be used to solve non-linear equations. For example, consider the system
$$Ax=a \qquad B(x)y=b(x), $$
where $a$ is a vector with scalar entries, $A$ is a ...
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Gaussian process kernel parameter tuning
I am reading on gaussian processes and there are multiple resources that say how the parameters of the prior (kernel, mean) can be fitted based on data,specifically by choosing those that maximize the ...
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Pedestrian proof of Gaussian chaos for order-two polynomial?
Let $\ell \geqslant 1$. Let us consider $(g_n)_{n \in \mathbb{N}}$ identically distributed independent real gaussian variables and real number $(a_{n_1,\dots n_{\ell}})_{(n_1, \dots, n_{\ell}s)\in\...
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Regularity of optimal transport of Gaussian mixtures
In one of the problems that I am working on, I came across the topic of smoothness of optimal transport for Gaussian mixtures. In particular, let $P=P_\theta=\sum_{i=1}^k \frac{1}{k}\mathcal{N}(x| \...
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an inverse problem related to gaussian integral
Suppose we have a function $\rho(x,t)$ defined over $[-1,1]\times[0,1]$.
Define the integral
$
f_T(x)=\int_{[0,1]} (\rho(.,t)*K_{T-t})(x) dt
$
for $x\in R$ and $T>1$, where $*$ is the convolution, ...
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Small rectangle probability
Let $H$ be a Hilbert space and $\mu$ be a centered Gaussian measure on it. Also, let the eigenpair corresponding to $\mu$ be $(i^{-\alpha} , e_i)$ with $\alpha > 1$. Assume we have a ball of radius ...
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Equivalence of Gaussian measures on Hilbert space
Suppose we have 2 nondegenerate Gaussian measures given by N(0,T) and N(0,S) supported on a separable Hilbert space H. T and S are such that eigenbasis of S lies in the cameron martin space of N(0,T)....
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distribution of integral of exponential of wiener process
I am absolute newbie to stochastic calculus and have to solve a weighted hazard rates integral, where the hazard rates are stochastic, their logarithm governed by arithmetic Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) ...
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The optimality of Kalman filtering
It is known that the Kalman filter estimates the state of the following system recursively.
$$x_{k+1}=Ax_k+w_k, \ \ w_k \sim \mathcal{N}(0,Q)$$
$$y_k=Cx_k+v_k, \ \ v_k \sim \mathcal{N}(0,W)$$
In the ...
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Slepian's Lemma for Range?
Let $\vec{x}$ and $\vec{y}$ be zero mean $n$-variate Gaussian variables with covariances $\Sigma^x, \Sigma^y$. Suppose they have identical marginals ($\sigma_{i,i}^x = \sigma_{i,i}^y$ for all $i$), ...
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Reference: hitting time of Gaussian process
Let $X_t$ be an OU process and $Y_t$ be the Gaussian process defined by
$$
Y_t = y+\int_0^t X_s ds + W_t,
$$
for some Brownian motion independent of $X_t$. Let $y,a>0$; is there a large deviation ...
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Measure change bound for function of subgaussian r.v
Let $X$ be a (sub)gaussian r.v. on $\mathbb{R}^d$; say $X\sim\mathcal{N}(\mathbf{0},\mathbb{1}_d)$; and let $a\colon\mathbb{R}^d\to [0,1]$ be a function with $\mathbb{E}[a(X)] > 0$.
It is not hard ...
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Optimal transport between Gaussian mixtures and their centers
I have a question about bounding the Wasserstein loss between a continuous Gaussian mixture and a discrete uniform distribution of its centers. In particular, let $P=\frac 1 k \sum_{i=1}^k \mathcal{N}(...
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Quantifying the effect of noise on the posterior variance in Gaussian processes / multivariate Gaussian vectors
Consider a real-valued Gaussian process $f$ on some compact domain $\mathcal{X}$ with mean zero and covariance function $k(x,x') \in [0,1]$ (also known as the kernel function). This question concerns ...
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Moments of a Normal-Wishart distribution
Do known expressions exist for the moments of a gaussian-wishart (aka normal wishart) distribution?
$$NW(\mu,K\mid\mu_0,\lambda_0, v, W) =
\frac{|\lambda_0K|^{1/2}}{(2\pi)^{d/2}}e^{-0.5([\mu - \mu_0]...
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Gaussian integrals and Showing $ \int f({\vec {x}})e^{\left(-{\frac {1}{2}}\sum \limits _{i,j=1}^{n}A_{ij}x_{i}x_{j}\right)}d^{n}x=e^{D}f|_{x=0}$
This is related to my other question on tackling a gaussian integral for $f(w,u)=\frac{1}{w-u}$.
Q1 Suggestions on evaluating gaussian integrals with "nice" functions (not necessarily polynomials)
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when is the average of a function with Gaussian inputs bounded away from zero
Define a function $\phi(x):\mathbb{R}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$. Consider the expected value function defined as follows
\begin{align*}
\mu(\beta)=E[g\phi
(\beta g)]\quad with \quad g\sim\mathcal{N}(0,1)\...
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Calculate sample mean confidence interval of noisy logistical distribution
I have $n$ samples which follow a logistic distribution with unknown $u$ and $s$; it is affected by a Gaussian noise with 0 mean.
I would like to estimate its average $u$ with a confidence interval (...
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Covariance of censored/clipped Gaussians
I am interested in the covariance of two clipped (or censored) Gaussian variables.
More precisely, let $g_1 \sim N(0,\sigma_1^2)$ and $g_2 \sim N(0,\sigma_2^2)$ be two (dependent) Gaussians with $\...
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Maximum-likelihood estimation for univariate responses from multivariate data
I am new in the field of machine learning, so I hope I will be able to formulate my question in a clear way...
I have some data represented by vectors $\mathbf{x}_1,\mathbf{x}_2,\ldots,\mathbf{x}_n \...
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What is the concentration of measure for Gaussian random variables which are independent, but are transformed?
This might be a too easy question for Mathoverflow, but Googling led to similar questions and answers here (though not the one I was looking for).
The question is split into two:
I have a matrix $X \...
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Angular distribution for Gaussian vector with non-zero mean
The angular central Gaussian distribution (ACG) is the distribution of $\frac{\mathbf{x}}{\|\mathbf{x}\|}$, when $\mathbf{x}\sim\mathcal{N}\left(\boldsymbol{0},\mathbf{A}\right)$, where $\mathbf{x}$ ...
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Gaussian measure on Banach spaces
Given any separable Banach space $B$ and a centered Gaussian measure $Q$ on it with Cameron-Martin space $H$, does there exist a Hilbert space $G$ and a Gaussian measure $W$ on it such that following ...
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Expectation involving the ratio of normal pdf to normal cdf?
i need to calculate some expectations which involving the ratio of normal pdf to normal cdf.
Specifically, they are $E\{\phi(x)/\Phi(x)\}$ and $E\{x\phi(x)/\Phi(x)\}$ where $x\sim N(0,1)$.
Written ...
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Generalization of a Gaussian measure continuity result from Hilbert to Banach space
Da Prato/Zabczyk "Second Order Partial Differential Equations in Hilbert Spaces" states the following lemma (this is a reformulation of proposition 1.3.11 in their book):
Let $\mu = \mathcal ...
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What is the distribution of determinant of multi multiplication of some Gaussian matrices?
I have a square matric $H = (ABC)(ABC)^H$ where $A$ and $C$ are complex Gaussian matrices with some correlation matrices and $B$ is a diagonal matrix with entries $e^{j \theta}$ on the diagonal such ...
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Law of OU process with time-dependent dynamics
Fix a non-negative integer $k$ and let $M^1:\mathbb{R}^n\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^n$ and $M^2,\Sigma:\mathbb{R}^n \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ be $k$-times continuously differentiable functions, ...
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Gaussian order statistics
Setup. Let $\alpha\in(0,1)$ fixed; and $\tau\in[0,1]$ (think of it very close to one).
Suppose $X_1,\dots,X_n$ are i.i.d. standard normal.
Let $Y_1,\dots,Y_n$ be another sequence of standard normals ...
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Explicit growth rate estimation of Gauss-Laguerre quadrature
The $n$-th Gauss-Laguerre quadrature scheme aims to approximate integral of exponentially decreassing function over $[0;+ \infty[$ by a finite sum, according to:
$ \displaystyle { \int _0 ^{+ \infty} ...
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How to characterize the variance of a linear Gaussian system with switching?
Consider a random process described by the following linear dynamics:
$$
x_{k+1} = a x_k + n_k,
$$
where $|a|<1$ and $n_k$s are i.i.d. standard normal distributed.
It is quite easy to prove that $...
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Relation satisfied by a Gaussian random variable
I want to prove the following relation for $X\sim \mathcal{N}(0,1)$, $x\in \mathbb{R}$ and $f(x)=\mathbb{E}[\max(X,x)]$:
$$f(\frac{f(x+1)+f(x-1)}{2})\leq \frac{f(f(x)-1)+f(f(x)+1)}{2}$$
It seems that ...
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Bayesian inference of stochastically evolving model parameters
I have a question related to self-calibration in radio interferometry, but I will try to phrase it as generic as possible. I have a set of data points, $D = \{ d_{0, t_0}, d_{1, t_0}, ..., d_{M, t_0}, ...
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Decomposition of Gaussian spaces with respect to covariance function
Let $K(t,s):T^2 \to \mathbb{R}$ be a kernel symmetric and type positive (for every $n$ $\sum^n_{i,j}u_iu_jK(t_i,t_j) \geq 0$ and $(u_1,\dots,u_n) \in \mathbb{R}^n$) where $T$ is any set. Thus, it is ...
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Explicit constant for Carbery–Wright inequality
The Carbery-Wright is a seminal result about the anti-concentration of polynomials of Gaussian random variables.
See e.g. Meka, Nguyen, and Vu - Anti-concentration for polynomials of independent ...
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Convolve a 4D Gaussian function along a plane?
There is a 4D Gaussian function $G(u,s)=G(x|c,\mu,\Sigma )$ where $x=\begin{bmatrix}u\\ s\end{bmatrix}$,$u$ and $s$ is all 2D vector.
Now I want to blur (convolve) it along with $u$ by another 2D ...
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Gaussian-weighted area of triangle
I'm trying to find how to generalise the calculation of the Gaussian-weighted area to triangles for convolution purposes. Let's start with how that works when there's only one line. If there's a line ...
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Distances between up and down crosses in Gaussian Processes
Given a gaussian process $g := \mathcal{GP}\left(\mu, \Sigma \right)$,
where $\mu$ is the mean and $\Sigma$ is the covariance function, I am interested in estimating the mean value $L_m$ of the ...
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Showing that additive Gaussian noise never increases sparsity
Let $\mathbf{1}\in\mathbb{R}^d$ be the $d$-dimensional all-ones vector and let $n\sim\mathcal{N}(0, \sigma^2 I_{d\times d})$, show that
$$ \frac{\| \mathbf{1} + n \|_1}{\|\mathbf{1} + n \|_2} \ge c \...
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Hubbard–Stratonovich for matrices
Can somebody share a link to papers( books) where this fornula was deduced?
$e^{\frac{1}{2}\sum_{ij}K_{ij}s_is_j} =\left(\frac{\det{K}}{(2\pi)^N} \right)^{1/2} \int^{\infty}_{-\infty}...\int^{\infty}_{...
