2 papers
math.PR2026
Moments of sums of exponentials, beyond CHS
Silouanos Brazitikos, Colin Tang, Tomasz Tkocz
We establish a sharp lower bound on the -norm of sums of independent exponential random variables with fixed variance, for , thus extending Hunter's positivity theor…
math.PR2025
Negative Moments of Steinhaus Sums
Martin Rapaport, Tomasz Tkocz, Isabella Wu
We prove a sharp upper bound on negative moments of sums of independent Steinhaus random variables (that is uniform on circles in the plane). Together with the series of earlier wo…