The signed small ball conjecture for multiparameter Haar functions

Let d2d\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 nN0n\in\mathbb N_0, consider rectangles RDdR\in\mathcal D^d with R=2n|R|=2^{-n}. The signed small ball conjecture. For any choice of signs εR{1,+1}\varepsilon_R\in\{-1,+1\},

RDd:R=2nεRhRnd2.\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.

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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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