Questions tagged [lower-bounds]
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How can we tighten the bounds of the $\ell_1$-norm of $\mathbf{A}x$ where $\mathbf{A}\in\mathbb{Z}^{m\times p}$ and $x \in \{0,1\}^p$?
I am curious about the upper bound of $\|\mathbf{A}x\|_1$ where $\mathbf{A}\in\mathbb{Z}^{m\times p}$ and $x \in \{0,1\}^p$, for a specific $\mathbf{A}$ as defined below.
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Numerically bounding a Exponential-Trigonometric Integral [closed]
I am having some trouble with this (undergrad) problem. The Twitter account I found this from was deleted so I unfortunately have not found an answer.
I have tried decomposing into Riemann sum and ...
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How to lower bound the probability that one Gaussian exceeds many others
I am interested in upper and lower bounding probability that one component of a multivariate Gaussian exceeds all others. For instance, say we have a multivariate Gaussian RV $X \sim N(\mu, \Sigma)$ ...
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Counting the number of local minima of a function that is the sum of square roots of cosines
Suppose you are given a set of functions $f_1, \ldots, f_n$. Every function is defined as follows
$$f_i(x) = \sqrt{1+C^2_i-2C_i\cos (x-D_i)}$$
where $0<C_i<1$ and $0\leq D_i<2\pi$ are real-...
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A maximal inequality
Let $\{X_i\}_{i\in\mathbb{N}}$ be i.i.d. symmetric random variables, with $-1\leq X_i\leq 1$, $\mathbb{E}(X_i) =0$, $\mathbb{E}(X_i^2) = 1$. We have that:
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P\left(\bigcap_{k = 1}^{n}\frac{|\sum_{i = ...
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Bound from above and from below the probability that a 1-D centered random walk remains at each step inside a square root boundary
Let $W_n = \sum_{i = 1}^{n}X_i$ be a random walk on $\mathbb{R}$, where the increments $X_i$ are i.i.d., symmetric around the origin ($X\sim -X$), such that $-1\leq |X(\omega)| \leq 1$ $\forall\omega\...
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Upper and lower bounds on the number of solutions to the equation $\frac{\pi}{4} = \sum_{k=1}^{n} c_{k} \arctan \left(\frac{1}{x_{k}} \right) $
Background
The Norwegian mathematician and astronomer Carl Størmer did important work on the equation
$$\frac{\pi}{4} = \sum_{k=1}^{n} c_{k} \arctan \left(\frac{1}{x_{k}}\right), \label{1}\tag{1} $$
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Obstacles to computing $\pi(n)$ in $O(n^{2/3-\epsilon})$ time
Edit: Apologies, as mentioned in the comments I failed to notice the analytic algorithms that take $O(n^{1/2+\epsilon})$ time, so this question doesn’t make much sense. It’s possible there is a ...
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Bound on a two-dimensional recursive series
For $n,k\in\mathbb{N}$, let $f(n,k)$ be defined as follows.
If $n \geq k$ and $n > 2$, then
$$
f(n,k) = \frac{k(n-k)}{n(n-1)}f(n-2,k-1) + \frac{k(k-1)}{n(n-1)}f(n-2,k-2) + \frac{n-k}{n}f(n-1,k) + \...
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The expected value of product of random variables which have the same distribution but are not independent
Given a positive integer $k$, is there a positive real number $c(k)$ such that $\mathbb{E}\left(\prod_{i=1}^k X_i\right)\geq c(k)$ for any $k$-random variables $X_1,X_2,\ldots,X_k$ which all have the ...
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Markov Inequality for lower bounds
In a paper I found a strange application of Markovs inequality which I couldn't follow maybe you can help. $X_k$ is the set of $k$-element Subsets of $\mathbb{Z}_d^n$ we fix a $C^{-1} \in X_{k-1}$ and ...
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What is known about the average growth rate of the denominators of $n$ Egyptian fractions summing to one?
Motivation
In the following question posted here on MO and over at MSE, user Noah Schweber asks about a weighted count on Egyptian fraction representations (EFRs). To that end, he defines the ...
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Classifier-specific lower bounds on the misclassification rate in binary classification
Consider a binary classification problem for $(X,Y)$, and let $\hat{f}$ be a proposed classifier. We wish to bound the misclassification rate $P(\hat{f}(X)\ne Y)$. There are many known lower bounds on ...
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Simple anticoncentration bound for binomially distributed variable
The following question, which arose during my research, seems deceivingly simple to me, but I could not find any elegant and formal argument.
For a binomially distributed variable $X \sim \text{Bin} \...
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Is it possible to bound Mertens function $M(n)$ from an inclusion-exclusion formulation?
In this post I proposed a formulation of Mertens function $M(n)$ using the inclusion-exclusion principle, as follows:
$$M(n)=-\pi\left(n\right)+\left(\sum_{p_{i}<\sqrt{n}}\pi\left(\lfloor\frac{n}{...
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The lower bound of bivariate normal distribution
Suppose $(Z_1, Z_2)$ is the zero-mean bivariate normal distribution with covariance $\left( \begin{matrix} 1 & \rho; \\ \rho & 1\end{matrix} \right)$ with positive $\rho > 0$. What I want ...
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Bounds for the crossing number in terms of the braid index?
Is there a lower bound on the crossing number of a knot (resp., link) with braid index $b$?
For knots, I believe the smallest crossing number for braid index 2 is 3, the smallest crossing number for ...
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Does this information theoretical thought experiment have a name or corresponding area of research?
I came up with the following thought experiment in my research in order to better understand the way Turing machines can transfer information through their tapes (the motivation is detailed below, isn'...
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Lower bound on sum of independent heavy-tailed random variables
I have a sum of $n$ i.i.d random variables $X_i$ such that $E[X_i] = 0$,$\mathrm{E}[|X_i|^{1 + \delta}]$ exists for some $0 < \delta < 1$ but $\mathrm{E}[|X_i|^{1 + \delta+ \epsilon}]$ does not ...
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Existence of copula bound pointwise strictly smaller than the Fréchet-Hoeffding upper bound
Consider bivariate copulas $C_1$ and $C_2$ with $\max\{C_1(u,v), C_2(u,v)\}< M_2(u,v)$ for all $u,v \in(0,1)$, where $M_2(u,v) := \min\{u,v\}$ is the Fréchet-Hoeffding upper bound.
Is there a ...
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Log of a truncated binomial
Let $X$ follow a binomial distribution with $n$ trials and success probability $p$, and let $0\leq k\leq n$. Are there any natural approximations or bounds for the ratio $$\frac{\boldsymbol{E}\log\...
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Tree width and clique width of regular graphs
Consider a $k$ regular graph of $n$ vertices, where $3 \leq k \leq (n-1)$. Is there any upper or lower bound, in the worst case, known for either the tree-width or the clique width of each $k$ regular ...
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How many elements have a "small" order in a finite field?
I'm hoping that this is an easy question for someone.
How many elements can we expect to have multiplicative order at most $n^{1/c}$ in one of the finite fields $\mathbb{F}_p$ with $p$ prime with $n \...
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Lower bound on the number of balanced graphs
Let $\alpha>1$ be a constant and define $B_n$ as the number of (labeled) balanced graphs with $n$ vertices and $\left\lceil \alpha n\right\rceil $ edges. The paper Strongly Balanced Graphs
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Lower bound on the sum of the product of random variables
Let $X_i$ be the $i$-th element of the vector $X=(X_1, ..., X_m)$ of i.i.d. random variables.
I am looking for a lower bound for the expression
$\mathbb{P}((\sum^n_{i=1}\prod^{m_i}_{j=1}(X_j))^2 \geq ...
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Lower bound and limit of a sum with binomial coefficients
Let
$$A_k = \sum_{i=1}^k i {3k-2i-1 \choose i-1} {2i-2 \choose k-i}$$
$$B_k = \sum_{i=1}^k i {3k-2i-2 \choose i-1} {2i-1 \choose k-i}$$
$$C_k = \sum_{i=1}^k (3k-2i-2) {3k-2i-3 \choose i-1} {2i\...
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Limit of a sum with binomial coefficients
Let $$A_k = \frac{\sum_{i=1}^ki{2k-i-1 \choose i-1}{i-1 \choose k-i}}{k{2k-1\choose k}}$$
$$B_k = \frac{\sum_{i=1}^ki{2k-i-2 \choose i-1}{i \choose k-i}}{k{2k-1\choose k}}$$
$$C_k = \frac{\sum_{i=1}^k(...
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An inequality involving binomial coefficients and the powers of two
I came across the following inequality, which should hold for any integer $k\geq 1$:
$$\sum_{j=0}^{k-1}\frac{(-1)^{j}2^{k-1-j}\binom{k}{j}(k-j)}{2k+1-j}\leq
\frac{1}{3}.$$
I have been struggling with ...
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When does Le Cam's method give tight lower bounds for distribution testing?
In the context of statistical estimation or distribution testing, Le Cam's method is a way to prove lower bounds on the minimax sample complexity ([1,2,3,4], further details below). My question is: ...
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How is the Cauchy-Schwarz equality and the assumption on the support of $g$ used to derive this bound?
I am currently reading On Uniqueness Properties of Solutions of Schrödinger Equations and a having trouble understanding a claim made on page 1819.
Context from the paper: let $g\in C^\infty_0(\...
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Extension of the Gershgorin circle theorem for symmetric matrices and localization of positive eigenvalues
In mathematics, the Gershgorin circle theorem can be used to localize eigenvalues of a matrix (including symmetric). Let $A$ be a real symmetry $n × n$ matrix, with entries $a_{ij}$. For $i∈{1,…,n}$ ...
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Probability of winning a $k$-rounds coin toss game
Let $p,q \in [0,1]$ with $p>q$. I denote by $B_k(p), B_k(q)$ two independent random variables following the binomial distribution, with parameters $(k,p)$ and $(k,q)$ respectively.
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Asymptotic behavior of the moments of non-negative sequences
We consider a sequence $u = (u_k)_{k\geq 1}$ such that $u_k \geq 0$ for any $k \geq 1$. We assume that there exists a critical $p_c \in \mathbb{R}$ such that, for any $q<p_c <p$,
$$\sum_{k=1}^\...
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"Tails" of a multinomial distribution
Let $X_1,\dots,X_N$ denote a collection of independent samples of a uniform multinomial random variable in $\mathbb{Z}^k$, with the number of trials equal to $n\ll k$. (By "uniform", I mean ...
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Are there known bounds on these ratios of chromatic polynomials?
The chromatic polynomial $P(G, \lambda)$ gives the number of proper vertex colorings of the graph $G$ with $\lambda$ colors. I'm interested in how many possible colorings you loose when you add an ...
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Gershgorin-type bounds for smallest eigenvalue of positive-definite matrix
I would like to know if there are known results for bounding eigenvalues of positive-definite matrices, in particular gram matrices $AA^\top$ based on easily computable functions of $A$.
Gershgorin ...
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Size of an “average” ϵ-net on the unit sphere
This is a question I originally asked on math.stackexchange, but didn't receive a satisfying answer.
Let $\epsilon>0$ and consider constructing a set $S_\epsilon\subseteq S^{d-1}$ of points on the ...
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Lower-bound smallest eigenvalue of covariance matrix of $y = f(Ax)$, for $x$ uniform on unit-sphere
Let $A=(a_1,\ldots,a_)$ be a fixed $k \times d$ matrix (with $d$ large), and $x$ be a random vector uniformly distributed on the unit-sphere in $\mathbb R^d$. Let $f:\mathbb R \to \mathbb R$ be a ...
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Analytic lower-bound for minimal value of $\|x\|^2$ such that $\|Cx-b\|^2 \le c^2$ (a hyperellipsoid)
Let $C$ be an $n \times p$ matrix and $b$ be a column vector of length $n$, and $c>0$. Let $E := \{x \in \mathbb R^p \mid \|Cx-b\| \le c\}$, a hyperellipsoid in nonstandard position.
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What is the limit of $a (n + 1) / a (n)$?
Let $a(n) = f(n,n)$ where $f(m,n) = 1$ if $m < 2 $ or $ n < 2$ and $f(m,n) = f(m-1,n-1) + f(m-1,n-2) + 2 f(m-2,n-1)$ otherwise.
What is the limit of $a(n + 1) / a (n)$? $(2.71...)$
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Given a unit vector $x\in\mathbb R^d$, what is the worst possible within-cluster sum of squares for 2-means clustering?
This is a question I originally posted to math.stackexchange.com but it didn't attract any answers, and I was wondering if someone here can help.
Consider a unit vector $x\in\mathbb R^d$ ($\|x\|_2=1$)...
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Distance of low-rank matrices to the identity for the $\infty$-norm
I am trying to get a lower bound (or even the exact value) of
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\min_{X \in \mathbb{R}^{n\times n}} \|X - I_n\|_{\infty} \enspace \text{s.t.} \enspace \mbox{Rank}(X) = m
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Lower-bound on expected value of norm of transformation of random vector with iid Rademacher coordinates
Let $n$ be a large positive integer. Let $A$ be a positive-definite matrix such with eigenvalues $\lambda_1 \ge \lambda_2 \ge \ldots \ge \lambda_n$ such that $\lambda_n = o(1) \to 0$ and $\lambda_i=\...
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Spread of a disease on a modular chessboard (torus) - lower bound
I learned about the following result from one of Peter Winkler's books:
It is impossible to infect the entire $n\times n$ chessboard (usual chessboard) starting from fewer than $n$ infected cells.
The ...
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Mertens Bound and the Riemann Hypothesis
Let $M(x)$ denote the Mertens function ($M(x)=\sum_{i=1}^{x}\mu(i)$ where $\mu(i)$ is the Möbius function) and let $\Lambda(i)$ denote the Mangoldt function ($\Lambda(i)$ equals $\log(p)$ if $i=p^{m}$ ...
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Restricted divisor summatory function
I have a problem that boils down to prove that the succession $\{a_n\}$ tends to infinity, where
$$a_n:=1+\sum_{0\leq j<n}D_{2j+1}(n-j)$$
and $D_{m}(n)$ is the number of divisors $d>1$ of $n$ ...
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Is this lower bound on the singular values of the sum of two matrices correct?
Equation 7 of this paper (Ramazan Türkmen, Zübeyde Ulukök, Inequalities for Singular Values of Positive Semidefinite Block Matrices, International Mathematical Forum, Vol. 6, 2011, no. 31, 1535 - 1545)...
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A lower-bound on matrix-function with vector product
I am currently trying to show that a sequence of homeomorphisms converges to some limiting homeomorphism using Anderson's the inductive convergence criterion. However I can't explicitly compute the ...
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Lower bound of exponential sum
This question is a close cousin of the following:
Lower bound on exponential sums
Let $\phi:[0,1]\to \mathbb R$ be a smooth function with $\frac 1 {10}<\phi'< 10, \frac 1 {10}<\phi''< 10$. ...
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Finding the expectation $\mathrm{E} (1/ X)$ for a negative binomial random variable $X$
Suppose a random variable $X$ is distributed as $\operatorname{NB}(\mu, \theta)$, and its mass is as follows
$$ \mathrm{P}(X = y) = \binom{y + \theta - 1}{y} \left(\frac{\mu}{\mu + \theta}\right)^{y}\...
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