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Fundamental Theorem of Algebra via multiple integrals
Consider the product of complex linear monic polynomials times polynomials of degree less than $n$, that is $\big( (z-\lambda), p(z)\big)\mapsto (z-\lambda)p(z)$. If we represent a polynomial by its ...
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A function with unexpectedly simple Legendre transformation
Let $I(x) = \frac{1}{2\pi} \int_{-2}^2 \sqrt{4-y^2}\ln|x-y|dy$. Then $I(x)$ is a concave function and
\begin{equation}
I(x)=
\begin{cases}
\frac{1}{4}x^2-\frac{1}{2}, &\text{if } |x|\leq2 \\
\...
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Marginalization of Wishart distribution
Consider the following Wishart distribution
$$
f({\bf W}) = \frac{ |{\bf W}|^{(n-p-1)/2} \exp\big[-\frac{1}{2}\text{tr}({\bf V}^{-1}{\bf W} ) \big] }{2^{np/2} |{\bf V}| \Gamma_p(\frac{n}{2})} \tag{1}
$...
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Inverse of matrix-valued function
Given $c>0$. Let $\gamma_c:{\cal M}_{k \times k}^+\mapsto {\cal M}_{k \times k}^+$ is a function defined by
\begin{equation}
\gamma_c(\Omega)=\frac1{\sqrt{(2\pi)^{k}|\Omega|}}\int_{\mathbb{R}^k}\{(-...
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Maximal-type inequality for a Borel probability measure supported on a subset of $L^2(\mathbb{R}^d)$
Let $\mu$ be a Borel probability measure on $L^2(\mathbb{R}^d)$ for $d\ge 1$ which is moreover supported on the unit sphere
$$S=\{\phi\in L^2(\mathbb{R}^d): \| \phi\|_{ L^2(\mathbb{R}^d)}=1\}.$$
Let ...
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What is the meaning of big-O of a random variable?
I encountered this problem in a book "Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning" by Christopher M. Bishop. I excerpt it below:
screenshot of the book
In the excerpt, the big-O notation $O(\xi^...
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Inequality with CDF of order statistics
here is a problem I have been struggling with for a while now. This is for a paper I am working on. Any help would be appreciated! Here we go:
Each bidder's valuation $\theta _{i},$ $i=1,...,N$, is ...
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Existence of Dirac measures in the context of joint and marginal distributions
Let $\pi$ be the joint law of $(X, Y)$ with marginal distributions $\mu$ and $\nu$. We assume that we have: for all $A \in \mathcal{B}(\mathbb{R})$ such that $\mu(A) > 0$
$$
\nu\left(\{y \in \...
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Generalization of the triangle inequality to complex exponents: What is $P\left(\left| x^{a+bi} + y^{a+bi} \right| \ge \left|z^{a+bi}\right|\right)$?
Let $x \le y \le z$ be the length of the sides of a triangle whose vertices are uniformly random on the circumference of a circle. In this question, it was proved that if $a \ge 1$, then the ...
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Multiple integral with diagonal constraint (short-range)
I am looking for an upper bound on the following integral:
$$\int_{X_{\delta}}\prod_{j\neq i=1}^{n}\left ( \frac{\delta}{\min (\max(\epsilon, |a_i-a_j|),\delta)}\right )^{b} \prod_{i=1}^{n} da_{i},$$
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On Riemann integration of stochastic processes of order $p$
Let $x:[a,b]\times\Omega\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ be a stochastic process, where $\Omega$ is the sample space from an underlying probability space. Let $L^p$ be the Lebesgue space of random variables on $...
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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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Prove this function is increasing
I'm stuck in showing that the following function is increasing over the domain $\left[0,\hat{b}\right]$:
\begin{eqnarray}
\Pi\left(z\right) & = & \int_{0}^{\phi\left(z\right)}\int_{x}^{\bar{x}...
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Compute Mixed Volume with Respect to Some Regular Sets
Let $( \mathbb{R}^n, \mathcal{B}, \gamma)$ be a measure space where $\mathcal{B}$ is the Borel sigma algebra and $\gamma$ is a continuous measure. For $A, B\in \mathcal{B}$ that are convex, the mixed ...
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Is there a Bayesian theory of deterministic signal? Prequel and motivation for my previous question
This is a prequel to my question:
What's the probability distribution of a deterministic signal or how to marginalize dynamical systems? (functional integrals in probability theory)
Clearly my ...
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Marginalizing multivariate normal over defined interval
Hello everyone,
I am trying to obtain an analytic expression for the following Gaussian integral
$$\frac{1}{\sqrt{(2 \pi)^n |\Sigma|}} \int \kern-0.2em \cdots \kern-0.2em \int d\mathbf{x}_{\sim i} \;...
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$f \in L^2(X\times Y,\mu \times K)$ for Kernel $K$, is the map $X \ni x \mapsto (f(x,\cdot),x) \in \bigsqcup_{x \in X}L^2(Y,\Sigma_Y,K_x)$ measurable?
Let $(X,\Sigma_X)$ and $(Y,\Sigma_Y)$ be two measurable spaces, let $\mu$ be a measure on $(X,\Sigma_X)$, and let $(K_x)_{x \in X}$ be a transition kernel from $(X,\Sigma_X)$ to $(Y,\Sigma_Y)$, that ...
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Riemann-Stieltjes integral of a distribution function
I recently learned the basics of Riemann-Stieltjes integral, and based on the sources I found, we can define the expectation of random variables quite naturally with the R-S integrals: if $X$ is a ...
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How should I proceed to solve this kind of integral equation?
Given $a>0$, $b>0$, I am trying to find the function $f_{a,b} : \mathbb{R}_+ \rightarrow \mathbb{R}_+$ such that for all $u \in \mathbb{R}_+$,
$$\exp\left\{\;\int\limits_{\mathbb{R}_+} \ln\left(...
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Sufficient and necessary conditions for decomposing the sum of random variables
Given two $n$-tuple vectors $\vec{\alpha}=(\alpha_1,\cdots,\alpha_n)$ and
$\vec{h}=(h_1,\cdots,h_n)$, where $h_i\ge0$, $\sum_{i=1}^nh_i=1$, and $\alpha_i\in(0,1)$, we consider a random variable $S$ on ...
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L2 norm of the diagonal entries of a random rotation of a fixed matrix?
Let $X\in\mathbb{R}^{d\times d}$ be the diagonal matrix with $d/2$ entries equal to $1$ and $d/2$ entries equal to $-1$. Let $F_U \triangleq \frac{1}{d}\|\operatorname{diag}(U^{\dagger}XU)\|^2_F$ ...
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Density of Geometric Stable distribution
If we define
$$
\psi(t|\alpha, \beta, \gamma, \mu) = -it\mu+|\gamma t|^\alpha(1-i\beta \mathrm{sgn}(t) \Phi)
$$
with
$$\Phi = \tan \frac{\pi \alpha}{2} \mathbf{1}_{\{ \alpha \neq 1 \} } - \frac{2}{\pi}...
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Improper integral of products and ratios of probability density functions
I am trying to find out whether the following integral is finite. The integrand consists of product of probability density functions.
$\int \frac{f(x_1,x_2, x_4^*)}{f(x_1^*,x_2, x^*_4)}\frac{f(x_1,...
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Integration involving modified bessel function, exponential and power
I need to find the following integration.
$$
\int_0^a e^{-(N-1)x}(\sqrt{4x}K_{1}(\sqrt{4x}))^N
$$
where
$$
a>0, \quad N \geq 1
$$
Any help will be much appreciated.
BR
Frank
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Inflated independent samples for Monte Carlo estimation
In my particular problem, running an MCMC is too expensive, so I'm looking for a simple MC estimator, which would partially inherit the correlated samples of MCMC, yet would not require computing ...
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Distribute Monte Carlo samples among dimensions
Simplified problem: Given a $d$-times nested convolution of an input function $g(x):\mathbb{R}\mapsto \mathbb{R}$ with the same band-limited smooth function $f(x):\mathbb{R}\mapsto \mathbb{R}$. I am ...
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Contribution of Fisher information near jump points in convolved probability distributions
I am trying to compute the contribution to the Fisher information from jump points $b_i(\theta)$ in the convolved function $f(x; \theta)$ with respect to the parameter $\theta$. I am unsure whether it ...
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Reference book for a probability course
In the next months I am planning to deliver a (more-or-less) advanced course in probability theory. My students will have had already a first encounter with discrete probability theory (discrete ...
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Integration of fractional function over Rice distribution
Let $a>2$ be a real variable. My objective is to find an approximation of the integral defined as
\begin{equation}
\int_0^{\infty } {\frac{1}{{1 + {x^a}}}} f\left( {x|y} \right)\, dx
\end{equation}...
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Does the following sequence $\{g_n\}$ converge?
Consider a function sequence $\{f_n(t)\}$ ($n\in\mathbb{N}^+$) defined on the interval $(\frac{1}{2},1)$, where
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eqn:constraint1}
f_n(t)=\frac{\exp\left(n\left(\log R(h_t) - th_t\...
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Finding a square integrable dominating function for function class
problem statement
For any $x \in R^d$, consider the function $$\phi(x,a) = \min_{1\leq j \leq k} \|x-a_j\|^2,$$
where $a = (a_1, \dots, a_k) \in R^{kd}$ and $\| \cdot \|$ is the $L_p$ norm for any $p ...
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Bayesian Bandits - What's the probability that choice K is the best?
I have $K$ very unfair coins. I don't know how unfair they are, but they all seem to have different probabilities of landing heads. I'd like to figure out which one is best as quickly as possible.
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Integral involving modified bessel function of second kind, exponential and power
I need to compute the following integral.
$$
\int_0^a e^{-bx}\sqrt{4(a-x)}K_1(\sqrt{4(a-x))}dx\,.
$$
where $$ a>0$$
and $b$ can be greater than zero or less than zero but it is not a complex ...
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Why is $\mathcal{E}(X)=\mathcal{E}(X,X^*)$?
According to a course about $\sigma$-agebras in infinite dimensional space they said that it is easy to see that :
$$\mathcal{E}(X)=\mathcal{E}(X,X^*)$$
where:
$X$ is separable real Banach space.
$\...
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Reference: Bochner Integral`
What would be an easily accessible book dealing with Bochner integration as applied to probability theory (I'm looking to understand random elements and their basic related concepts in a formal yet ...
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