Stochastic dominance and weak concentration for sums of independent symmetric random vectors

Abstract

Kwapien and Woyczynski asked in their monograph (1992) whether their notion of superstrong domination is inherited when taking sums of independent symmetric random vectors (one vector dominates another if, essentially, tail probabilities of any norm of the two vectors compare up to some scaling constants). We answer this question positively. As a by-product of our methods, we establish that a certain notion of weak concentration is also preserved by taking sums of independent symmetric random vectors.

14 pages