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Rates of convergence to Tracy-Widom?
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One can define the Tracy-Widom distribution as the Fredholm determinant $F_2(t)=\det(\mathbf I-\mathbf A)$ where
$$\mathbf A(x, y)=\...
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Can one "smooth over" k-wise independence to get actual independence?
I came across the following toy problem and was curious if there was a simple solution or counterexample. Suppose you have a distribution $p$ on $m$ random variables $X_1, \ldots, X_m$, each with ...