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Moment lower-bound conjecture for weighted sums of exponential random variables
Let be real, let be non-negative real numbers satisfying … and let be independent identically distributed standard exponential random variable…
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The Gaussian product inequality for centered Gaussian vectors
Let be a centered Gaussian random vector with , and let . Gaussian product inequality. One has … The conjecture…
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Latała's moment conjecture for norms of log-concave vectors
Latała's moment conjecture. There exists a universal constant such that, for every log-concave vector with values in a finite-dimensional normed space and ever…
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Equivalence of CNA+, JNRD+ and h-NLC+
The properties CNA+, JNRD+ and h-NLC+ are stronger versions of CNA, JNRD and hereditary NLC, respectively, requiring the corresponding property after every imposition of an externa…
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Persistence of one- and two-sided collapse for higher even moments
Higher-even-moment collapse conjecture. For the classes , the one-sided/two-sided collapse of the cited collapse result persists beyond the corresp…
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The Gaussian correlation inequality
Gaussian correlation conjecture. One has
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Sharp one-sided concentration conjecture for standardized log-concave distributions
Let denote the set of all real random variables with a log-concave probability density function such that and . Let have the standard exponential distrib…
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Lower-moment norm equivalence for renewal partial sums
Let be independent copies of a nondegenerate nonnegative random variable, let , and set . For , write…
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Integral inequality for nearest-neighbor classification
Let and be independent random variables, where and are densities with cumulative distribution functions and , respectively. Integral…
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Failure of log-convexity for distributions close to the exponential distribution
Failure conjecture. The condition
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The monotone-cluster-property generalization of the pre-FKG conjecture
Let be a graph. A function is a monotone cluster property if it depends only on the cluster of its vertex, is increasing under enlargemen…
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The uniform continuity consequence of the pre-FKG conjecture
Let be a graph, let , and let be vertices. The uniform continuity conjecture. For every there exists such that, whenever … and…
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The pre-FKG conjecture for connection probabilities
Let be a finite graph with arbitrary probabilities on its edges. Let be vertices and let be a set of vertices. The pre-FKG conjecture. … This is a forma…
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The post-FKG conjecture for connection probabilities
Let be a finite graph with arbitrary probabilities on its edges. Let be vertices and let be a set of vertices. The post-FKG conjecture. … This is an FKG…
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The multivariate extension of Massart's inequality for clustered data
Let be independent and identically distributed random variables, with each representing a cluster of observations, and suppose that for al…
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The Gaussian product inequality for disjoint principal minors of Wishart matrices
Let , let , and let . Let be a Wishart random matrix,…
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The strong Gaussian product inequality for Gaussian vectors
Let be the Gaussian vector in the strong Gaussian product inequality, with , and let…
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Sharp - moment comparison conjecture for uniform random variables
Let be independent random variables uniformly distributed on , let ), and let . The sharp - moment…
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Lewicki–Skrzypek conjecture on conditionally centred moments for uniform distributions
Lewicki–Skrzypek conjecture. For every ,
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The density-ratio bound with the variance defect
Let have a Poisson binomial distribution generated by probabilities , let , and let be the Poisson distribution…
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The corrected Chernoff bound for the lower tail of a gamma sum
Corrected Chernoff-bound conjecture. The function is an upper bound for the lower-tail probability:
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Modified DKWM conjecture for unequal two-sample sizes
Modified DKWM conjecture. For any ,
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Finite-sampling empirical-process tail-bound conjecture
Finite-sampling empirical-process conjecture. There exist constants (possibly and ?) such that the corresponding finite-sampling empirical-process tail bound hol…
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The Gaussian correlation conjecture
Gaussian correlation conjecture. For all convex and centrally symmetric sets ,
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Extension of the Kearns–Saul inequality beyond the unimodality region
Extension conjecture. The displayed inequality holds throughout , even though is not unimodal for . The conjecture is bas…