{ "id": "1603.00613", "version": "v1", "published": "2016-03-02T08:33:36.000Z", "updated": "2016-03-02T08:33:36.000Z", "title": "On a bound of Hoeffding in the complex case", "authors": [ "Mikhail Isaev", "Brendan D. Mckay" ], "comment": "Electronic Communications in Probability, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), 2016", "doi": "10.1214/16-ECP4372", "categories": [ "math.PR" ], "abstract": "It was proved by Hoeffding in 1963 that a real random variable X confined to [a, b] satisfies E e^(X--E X) $\\le$ e^((b--a)^2/8). We generalise this to complex random variables.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2016-03-02T08:33:36.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "complex case", "complex random variables", "generalise" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2016arXiv160300613I" } } }