The signed small ball conjecture for multiparameter Haar functions

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Let d≥2d\ge 2. Let Dd\mathcal D^d be the dyadic rectangles in [0,1)d[0,1)^d, and let hRh_R be the associated multiparameter Haar function. For each n∈N0n\in\mathbb N_0, consider rectangles R∈DdR\in\mathcal D^d with ∣R∣=2−n|R|=2^{-n}. The signed small ball conjecture. For any choice of signs εR∈{−1,+1}\varepsilon_R\in\{-1,+1\},

∥∑R∈Dd: ∣R∣=2−nεRhR∥∞≳nd2.\left\|\sum_{R\in\mathcal D^d:\,|R|=2^{-n}}\varepsilon_Rh_R\right\|_\infty\gtrsim n^{\frac d2}.

This is the signed form of the small ball problem and predicts a gain of roughly n\sqrt n from each dimension in the supremum norm. The one-dimensional estimate discussed in the paper would imply this inequality in all dimensions, but that estimate is not established in the source.

References

Primary source

Dmitriy Bilyk and Naomi Feldheim, “The two-dimensional small ball inequality and binary nets”, arXiv:1511.07326 (2015).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2006–2015). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:0709.2713, arXiv:math/0609815.

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