{ "id": "1203.6763", "version": "v3", "published": "2012-03-30T10:30:35.000Z", "updated": "2014-11-26T13:25:22.000Z", "title": "Estimates for the concentration functions in the Littlewood--Offord problem", "authors": [ "Yulia S. Eliseeva", "Friedrich Götze", "Andrei Yu. Zaitsev" ], "comment": "16 pages", "journal": "Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, 2013, vol. 420, p. 50-69", "categories": [ "math.PR" ], "abstract": "Let $X,X_1,...,X_n$ be independent identically distributed random variables. In this paper we study the behavior of the concentration functions of the weighted sums $\\sum\\limits_{k=1}^{n}a_k X_k$ with respect to the arithmetic structure of coefficients $a_k$. Such concentration results recently became important in connection with investigations about singular values of random matrices. In this paper we formulate and prove some refinements of a result of Vershynin (R. Vershynin, Invertibility of symmetric random matrices, arXiv:1102.0300. (2011). Published in Random Structures and Algorithms, v. 44, no. 2, 135--182 (2014)).", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2013-12-19T17:07:00.000Z", "abstract": "Let $X,X_1,\\ldots,X_n$ be independent identically distributed random variables. In this paper we study the behavior of the concentration functions of the weighted sums $\\sum\\limits_{k=1}^{n}a_k X_k$ with respect to the arithmetic structure of coefficients $a_k$. Such concentration results recently became important in connection with investigations about singular values of random matrices. In this paper we formulate and prove some refinements of a result of Vershynin (R. Vershynin, Invertibility of symmetric random matrices, arXiv:1102.0300. (2011). To appear in Random Structures and Algorithms).", "doi": null }, { "version": "v3", "updated": "2014-11-26T13:25:22.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "60F05", "60E15", "60G50" ], "keywords": [ "concentration functions", "littlewood-offord problem", "independent identically distributed random variables", "symmetric random matrices", "random structures" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 16, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2012arXiv1203.6763E" } } }