Poisson multinomial decomposition conjecture for floors of strongly Rayleigh variables

Let XX be a strongly Rayleigh random variable, and let j,k1j,k\geq 1. Write jX/k\left\lfloor jX/k\right\rfloor for the integer-valued floor of jX/kjX/k. Poisson multinomial decomposition conjecture. The random variable jX/k\left\lfloor jX/k\right\rfloor is a sum of independent random variables with values in {0,1,,j}\{0,1,\ldots,j\}. Equivalently, its probability generating function can be factorized into polynomials with positive coefficients of degrees no greater than jj.

The claim generalizes the preceding established case j=2j=2, where the floor is shown to have a Poisson multinomial representation with summands taking values in {0,1,2}\{0,1,2\}. 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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