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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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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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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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Are there known bounds on the expectation of the truncated Beta distribution?
Let $X\sim beta(\alpha,\beta)$ be a random variable and let $\tau\in(0,1)$.
Are there any known closed-form bounds (I'm specifically interested in lower bounds) on
$$
\mathbb E[X\ | X\le \tau]?
$$