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Identities and inequalities in analysis and probability
Usually, at the heart of a good limit theorem in probability theory is at least one good inequality – because, in applications, a topological neighborhood is usually defined by inequalities. Of course,...
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Positive-Definite Functions and Fourier Transforms
Bochner's theorem states that a positive definite function is the Fourier transform of a finite Borel measure. As well, an easy converse of this is that a Fourier transform must be positive definite.
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Missing mass conjecture
Let $n,t$ be positive integers and $p_1,p_2,\ldots,p_n$ positive numbers summing to 1. Conjecture:
$$
\sum_{i=1}^n p_i (1-p_i)^t \le \frac{n(1-1/n)^n}{t}
$$
always holds.
The motivation comes from my ...
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Given positive $\epsilon$ and $c$, find a density $\phi$ such that $t\phi(\epsilon/t) \ge c \|\phi'\|_\infty$ for all positive $t$
A nice density (on $\mathbb R$) is function $\phi:\mathbb R \to \mathbb R$ such that
(1) $\phi(x) \ge 0$ for all $x \in \mathbb R$,
(2) $\int_{-\infty}^\infty \phi(x) \mathrm{d}x = 1$,
(3) $\phi$ is ...
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Bakry-Emery criterion
The most common use of the Bakry-Emery criterion is for the measure $\mu(x)=e^{-u(x)} /Z$ where $u \in \mathcal{C}^2$. I would like to ask for an application to a smaller class.
Consider $u(x)=|x|^2 + ...
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Iterated integrations by parts using the fractional Laplacian
Let $u \in C^\infty_c(\mathbb{\Omega})$ and $\varphi$ be an eigenfunction of the fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^s$ in $\Omega$ with eigenvalue $\lambda$. In what sense, if any, is it true that
$$\...
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Uniqueness for measure valued ode
Morning! Basically I'm working on a mean field scaling for some measure valued process (valued on $M_F(\mathbb{N})$). The limit turns up as a (deterministic) solution to a measure valued ODE. Let's ...
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Asymptotic formula for fractional Laplacian
For the solution of
$$
\begin{cases}
\lambda u^\epsilon - \frac{\epsilon^2}{2} \Delta u^\epsilon = 0 &\text{in } \Omega \\
u^\epsilon=1 & \text{on } \partial \Omega
\end{cases}
$$
Varadhan ...
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Existence, Uniqueness, and "ODE Characterization" of Minimizers for Variational Functionals from Large Deviations
A [classical result][1] of E. Lieb is that the functional
$$\mathcal E(\phi):=\int_{\mathbb R^3}|\nabla\phi(x)|^2~dx-\int_{(\mathbb R^3)^2}\frac{|\phi(x)|^2|\phi(y)|^2}{|x-y|}~dx~dy$$
for $\phi\in W^1(...
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A determinantal mixture of probability densities
I came up with this operation after playing with determinantal point processes:
Given two probability densities $f,g$ defined on some measurable space with reference measure $\mu$, set
$$
f\star g(x)...
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Ratio of integrals with increasing dimension over Euclidean balls
Let $f_n(x)\geq0$ be any sequence of nonnegative $L^1(\mathbb{R}^n)$ functions such that $\int_{\mathbb{R}^{n}}f_n(x)dx=1$ where $dx$ is the Lebesgue measure on $\mathbb{R}^n$. For any $a>1,\...
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Sub-Gaussian decay of convolution of $L^1$ function with Gaussian kernel
I think it might be helpful to put the new statement at the beginning and put the original post at the end. This new statement is more mathematically elegant.
Let $f\geq0$ be in $L^1(\mathbb{R}^d)$ ...
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Simple proof of Prékopa's Theorem: log-concavity is preserved by marginalization
The following result is well-known:
Suppose that $H(x,y)$ is a log-concave distribution for $(x,y) \in \mathbb R^{m \times n}$ so that by definition we have
$$H \left( (1 - \lambda)(x_1,y_1) + \...
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Proving that a complicated function is eventually concave
I have a function $f:\mathbb{R}^+ \to \mathbb{R}^+$ that I want to prove is eventually concave - i.e. that there exists $\gamma _0 > 0$ such that for every $\gamma>\gamma_0$, $f(\gamma)$ is ...
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Can we extract information about how fast a function decay from its Laplace transform?
My question is whether we can extract information about how fast an integrable function converges to zero by looking at the asymptotics of its Laplace transform.
More concrete case, let $f:\mathbb{R} ...
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A sufficient condition for a probability measure to have compact support
Consider a probability measure $\mu$ on, let's say, $\mathbb R$.
Is there a necessary and sufficient condition so that $\mu$ has compact support $Supp(\mu)$ ?
I agree this question is too vague, ...
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Birth-Death Process associated with Orthogonal Polynomials
I have read in various places the following objects are related:
orthogonal polynomials
birth-death processes
Lattice paths
continued fractions
After a lot of searching online, I found sketches ...
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matrix Khintchine inequality
The usual Khintchine inequality says that if $\{\epsilon_n\}_{n = 1}^N$ are i.i.d. random variables with $\mathbb{P}(\epsilon_n = \pm 1) = \frac{1}{2}$ for each $n$ then
\begin{equation*}
\left( \...
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Let a function f have all moments zero. What conditions force f to be identically zero?
Throughout, let $f$ be a Lebesgue measurable function (or continuous if you wish, but this is probably no easier). (Questions with distributions etc. are possible also but I want to keep things simple ...
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Conditions on a measure to satisfy certain relation on moments.
Suppose we have a measure $\mu$ on $\mathbb R_+$ such that $\forall s>-1$ $t^s\in L^1(\mathrm d\mu(t))$.
I'd like to impose some conditions on $\mu$ so the function
$$f:p\to \frac{\int_0^\infty t^...
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What do we actually know about logarithmic energy ?
In potential theory, the $\textit{logarithmic energy}$ of a Radon measure $\mu$ acting on $\mathbb{C}$ is defined by
$$I(\mu)=\iint\log\frac{1}{|x-y|}\mu(dx)\mu(dy).$$ Of course it is not well ...
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Does the existence of an asymtpotic density imply the existence of a measure on infinite dimensional (path) space?
This question is related to the following question
Question about a Limit of Gaussian Integrals and how it relates to Path Integration (if at all)?
A couple of authors have observed that composing a ...
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