Numerical improvement conjecture for four-cell stratified sampling

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Let v=(v1,v2,v3)\mathbf{v}=(v_1,v_2,v_3) satisfy v1<v2<v3v_1<v_2<v_3 with each vi∈[0,2]v_i\in[0,\sqrt{2}]. Let Ωv(4)\mathbf{\Omega}_{\mathbf{v}}^{(4)} be the associated four-cell partition, let PΩv(4)\mathcal{P}_{\mathbf{\Omega}_{\mathbf{v}}^{(4)}} denote a stratified point set from this partition, and let Pjit4\mathcal{P}_{\mathrm{jit4}} denote the four-point classical jittered-sampling set. Numerical improvement conjecture. There exists such a vector v\mathbf{v} for which

E L22(PΩv(4))<E L22(Pjit4)=0.01909….\mathbb{E}\,\mathcal{L}_2^2\left(\mathcal{P}_{\mathbf{\Omega}_{\mathbf{v}}^{(4)}}\right)<\mathbb{E}\,\mathcal{L}_2^2\left(\mathcal{P}_{\mathrm{jit4}}\right)=0.01909\ldots.

The claim is based only on numerical evidence; the authors report a partition with an estimated expected discrepancy of 0.0188…0.0188\ldots, but no proof is provided.

References

Primary source

Markus Kiderlen and Florian Pausinger, “Discrepancy of stratified samples from partitions of the unit cube”, arXiv:2008.12026 (2021).

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