We investigate the Gaussian small ball probabilities with random centers, find their deterministic a.s.-equivalents and establish a relation to infinite-dimensional high-resolution quantization.
We prove abstract bounds on the Wasserstein and Kolmogorov distances between non-randomly centered random sums of real i.i.d. random variables with a finite third moment and the standard normal distribution. Except for the case of mean zero summands, these bounds involve a coupling of the summation index with its size biased distribution as was previously considered in \cite{GolRin96} for the normal approximation of nonnegative random variables. When being specialized to concrete distributions of the summation index like the Binomial, Poisson and Hypergeometric distribution, our bounds turn ou…
We characterize Banach spaces B of stable type p (1 < p < 2) by the property that for every sequence (X_i) of B-valued random variables, independent, centered and fulfilling some integrability assumption, the sequence S_n/n^(1/p) is a quasimartingale, where S_n=X_1+...+X_n.
Let $X_1,X_2,\ldots,X_n$ be independent random variables and $S_k=\sum_{i=1}^k X_i$. We show that for any constants $a_k$, \[ \Pr(\max_{1\leq k\leq n}||S_{k}|-a_{k}|>11t)\leq 30 \max_{1\leq k\leq n}\Pr(||S_{k}|-a_{k}|>t). \] We also discuss similar inequalities for sums of Hilbert and Banach space valued random vectors.
In this article, we show that every centered Gaussian measure on an infinite dimensional separable Fréchet space $X$ over $\mathbb R$ admits some full measure Banach intermediate space between $X$ and its Cameron-Martin space. We provide a way of generating such spaces and, by showing a partial converse, give a characterization of Banach intermediate spaces. Finally, we show an example of constructing an $α$-Hölder intermediate space in the space of continuous functions, $\mathcal C_0[0, 1]$ with the classical Wiener measure.
We consider large random matrices $X$ with centered, independent entries but possibly different variances. We compute the normalized trace of $f(X) g(X^*)$ for $f,g$ functions analytic on the spectrum of $X$. We use these results to compute the long time asymptotics for systems of coupled differential equations with random coefficients. We show that when the coupling is critical the norm squared of the solution decays like $t^{-1/2}$.
We consider the self-normalized sums $T_{n}=\sum_{i=1}^{n}X_{i}Y_{i}/\sum_{i=1}^{n}Y_{i}$, where ${Y_{i} : i\geq 1}$ are non-negative i.i.d. random variables, and ${X_{i} : i\geq 1} $ are i.i.d. random variables, independent of ${Y_{i} : i \geq 1}$. The main result of the paper is that each subsequential limit law of T_n$ is continuous for any non-degenerate $X_1$ with finite expectation, if and only if $Y_1$ is in the centered Feller class.
This appendix provides a short proof for sample path continuity of the Brownian motion induced by an arbitrary centered Gaussian measure on a separable Banach space, and also some perturbation results for the spectrum of compact self-adjoint operators on a Hilbert space.
In this article we introduce the Gaussian Sobolev space $W^{1,2}(\mathscr O,γ)$, where $\mathscr O$ is an arbitrary open set of a separable Banach space $E$ endowed with a nondegenerate centered Gaussian measure $γ$. Moreover, we investigate the semimartingale structure of the infinite dimensional reflecting Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process for open sets of the form $\mathscr O=\{x\in E\, :\, G(x)<0\}$, where $ G$ is some Borel function on $E$.
We consider the optimal quantization problem with Rényi-$α$-entropy constraints for centered Gaussian measures on a separable Banach space. For $α= \infty$ we can compute the optimal quantization error by a moment on a ball. For $α\in {}]1,\infty]$ and large entropy bound we derive sharp asymptotics for the optimal quantization error in terms of the small ball probability of the Gaussian measure. We apply our results to several classes of Gaussian measures. The asymptotical order of the optimal quantization error for $α> 1$ is different from the well-known cases $α= 0$ and $α= 1$.
Let $T(H, G_n)$ be the number of monochromatic copies of a fixed connected graph $H$ in a uniformly random coloring of the vertices of the graph $G_n$. In this paper we give a complete characterization of the limiting distribution of $T(H, G_n)$, when $\{G_n\}_{n \geq 1}$ is a converging sequence of dense graphs. When the number of colors grows to infinity, depending on whether the expected value remains bounded, $T(H, G_n)$ either converges to a finite linear combination of independent Poisson variables or a normal distribution. On the other hand, when the number of colors is fixed, $T(H, G_n…
We study the distribution of the maximum of a large class of Gaussian fields indexed by a box $V_N\subset Z^d$ and possessing logarithmic correlations up to local defects that are sufficiently rare. Under appropriate assumptions that generalize those in Ding, Roy and Zeitouni (Annals Probab. (45) 2017, 3886-3928), we show that asymptotically, the centered maximum of the field has a randomly-shifted Gumbel distribution. We prove that the two dimensional Gaussian free field on a super-critical bond percolation cluster with $p$ close enough to $1$, as well as the Gaussian free field in i.i.d. bou…
A "law of large numbers" for consecutive convex hulls for weakly dependent Gaussian sequences $\{X_n\}$, having the same marginal distribution, is extended to the case when the sequence $\{X_n\}$ has a weak limit. Let $\mathbb{B}$ be a separable Banach space with a conjugate space $\mathbb{B}^\ast$. Let $\{X_n\}$ be a centered $\mathbb{B}$-valued Gaussian sequence satisfying two conditions: 1) $X_n \Rightarrow X\;\;$ and 2) For every $x^* \in \mathbb{B}^\ast$ $$ \lim_ {n,m, |n-m|\rightarrow \infty}E\langle X_n, x^*\rangle \langle X_m, x^*\rangle\;\; = \;\;0. $$ Then with probability 1 the norm…
Let $X$ be a separable Banach space endowed with a non-degenerate centered Gaussian measure $μ$ and let $w$ be a positive function on $X$ such that $w\in W^{1,s}(X,μ)$ and $\log w\in W^{1,t}(X,μ)$ for some $s>1$ and $t>s'$. In the present paper we introduce and study Sobolev spaces with respect to the weighted Gaussian measure $ν:=wμ$. We obtain results regarding the divergence operator (i.e. the adjoint in $L^2$ of the gradient operator along the Cameron--Martin space) and the trace of Sobolev functions on hypersurfaces $\{x\in X\,|\, G(x) = 0\}$, where $G$ is a suitable version of a Sobolev …
We extend to the vector-valued situation some earlier work of Ciesielski and Roynette on the Besov regularity of the paths of the classical Brownian motion. We also consider a Brownian motion as a Besov space valued random variable. It turns out that a Brownian motion, in this interpretation, is a Gaussian random variable with some pathological properties. We prove estimates for the first moment of the Besov norm of a Brownian motion. To obtain such results we estimate expressions of the form $\E \sup_{n\geq 1}\|ξ_n\|$, where the $ξ_n$ are independent centered Gaussian random variables with va…
Simple random coverage models, well studied in Euclidean space, can also be defined on a general compact metric space. By analogy with the geometric models, and with the discrete coupon collector's problem and with cover times for finite Markov chains, one expects a "weak concentration" bound for the distribution of the cover time to hold under minimal assumptions. We give two such results, one for random fixed-radius balls and the other for sequentially arriving randomly-centered and deterministically growing balls. Each is in fact a simple application of a different more general bound, the f…