ArticleOriginal scientific text
Title
Tail and moment estimates for some types of chaos
Authors 1
Affiliations
- Institute of Mathematics, Warsaw University, Banacha 2, 02-097 Warszawa, Poland
Abstract
Let be a sequence of independent symmetric real random variables with logarithmically concave tails. We consider a variable , where are real numbers. We derive approximate formulas for the tails and moments of X and of its decoupled version, which are exact up to some universal constants.
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