Poisson multinomial decomposition conjecture for floors of strongly Rayleigh variables
Poisson multinomial decomposition conjecture for floors of strongly Rayleigh variables
Let be a strongly Rayleigh random variable, and let . Write for the integer-valued floor of . Poisson multinomial decomposition conjecture. The random variable is a sum of independent random variables with values in . Equivalently, its probability generating function can be factorized into polynomials with positive coefficients of degrees no greater than .
The claim generalizes the preceding established case , where the floor is shown to have a Poisson multinomial representation with summands taking values in . The source gives no resolution beyond posing the conjecture.
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Wenpin Tang and Fengmin Tang, “The Poisson binomial distribution – Old & New”, arXiv:1908.10024 (2019).
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