Uniform Berry–Esseen conjecture for Rademacher sums

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Let x1,…,xnx_1,\ldots,x_n be independent random variables uniformly distributed in {−1,1}\{-1,1\}, and let

X=∑iaixiX=\sum_i a_i x_i

be a Rademacher sum with Var⁡(X)=1\operatorname{Var}(X)=1 and 0<ai≤a10<a_i\leq a_1 for every ii. Let Z∼N(0,1)Z\sim N(0,1) be a standard Gaussian, and let x∈Rx\in\mathbb R. Berry–Esseen conjecture.

∣Pr⁡[X≤x]−Pr⁡[Z≤x]∣≤Pr⁡[Z∈(0,a1)]<a12π.\left|\Pr[X\leq x]-\Pr[Z\leq x]\right|\leq \Pr[Z\in(0,a_1)]<\frac{a_1}{\sqrt{2\pi}}.

This is proposed as a natural extension of a previously proved bound for coefficients bounded by 0.220.22. The source presents it as an open problem, with no resolution supplied.

References

Primary source

Nathan Keller and Ohad Klein, “Proof of Tomaszewski's Conjecture on Randomly Signed Sums”, arXiv:2006.16834 (2021).

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