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Expectation of the inner product of a subset of two random orthonormal vectors

Setting: Consider sampling two orthonormal vectors $\mathbf{u},\mathbf{v}$ in $\mathbb{R}^p$ (where $p\ge2$) from a "uniform" distribution over the $p$-dimensional sphere (alternatively, ...
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Bound the expectation of an average

Let $(a_n)_{n \geq 1}$ be random variables taking values on a finite subset $B$. Assume that $\nu_l(b) \le P[a_n = b\mid a_1,\ldots,a_{n-1}] \le \nu_u(b)$ almost surely for every $n \ge 1$ and $b \in ...
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