The extreme-point and convex-hull conjecture for laws of distinct values
The extreme-point and convex-hull conjecture for laws of distinct values
Let be an infinite exchangeable sequence, and let be the number of distinct values among its first terms. For , let be the number of distinct values in independent samples from the uniform distribution on elements, let
and set . Define
and let denote its convex hull. Extreme-point and convex-hull conjecture. For , the set of extreme points of is , and the set of possible laws of for an infinite exchangeable sequence is . This characterizes the possible distributions of the number of distinct values in a finite sample from an infinite exchangeable sequence; the supplied text presents it as the main open problem of the article, and gives no evidence of a resolution.
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Theodore Zhu, “The distribution of the number of distinct values in a finite exchangeable sequence”, arXiv:2103.07518 (2021).
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