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Existence and sharpness of Bernstein-type bounds on the moment-generating function

Let $X$ be a centred random variable with variance $\sigma^2$, and whose moment-generating function exists in an open neighbourhood of the origin. Say that $X$ satisfies a 'Bernstein-type' MGF bound ...
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Deducing norm concentration from MGF bounds

Suppose that $X$ is a centered, $\mathbf{R}^d$-valued random variable such that for all $t \in \mathbf{R}^d$, there holds the bound $$\log \mathbf{E} \left[ \exp \langle t, X \rangle \right] \leqslant ...