Questions tagged [characteristic-functions]
Questions about characteristic functions, of a set (which gives 1ドル$ if the element is on the set and 0ドル$ otherwise) or of a random variable (its Fourier transform). Do not use this tag if you are asking about the method of characteristics in PDE or the characteristic polynomial in linear algebra.
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For a characteristic function, how to prove there is no subset A s.t limit of the function exists at only one point?
Let $A\subseteq \mathbb{R}$ be any set, and define its characteristic function as:
$$\chi_A := \begin{cases} 1 & \text{if } x \in A \\
0 & \text{if } x \notin A \end{cases}$$
I need to prove ...
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A Berry-Esseen-type inequality for uniform distribution
Suppose that $X_1, X_2, \cdots ,X_n$ are i.i.d with $X_i \sim U([-\sqrt3,\sqrt3]),ドル $\Phi(t)=(2\pi)^{-\frac{1}{2}}\int_{-\infty}^{t}e^{-\frac{x^2}{2}}dx$. Show that there exists $C>0$ such that
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The sum of an irreducible representation over a subset of a finite group
Let $G$ be a finite group and $S\subseteq G$. Let $\rho$ be an irreducible representation of $G$ and $\chi$ be its (irreducible) character. Define
$$\rho(S):=\sum_{s\in S}\rho(s),$$
$$\chi(S):=\sum_{s\...
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Does the characteristic function of a measure tell us whether it contains an atom? [duplicate]
Let $\mu$ be a probability measure on $\mathbb{R}$ and let $\varphi$ be its characteristic function. Exercise 3.3.3 on Durrett's book about probability tells us that
$$\lim _{T \rightarrow \infty} \...
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Evaluate a crazy limit (in the context of Probability)
At the moment I am taking a measure-theory based probability course. In the previous homework assignment we were asked the following:
Evaluate the limit $$\lim_{n\to\infty} \frac{1}{2^{n}} \int_{-1}^{...
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convolution of step function with box function
Consider the box function: $g_\epsilon=\frac{1}{2\epsilon}\chi_{[-\epsilon,\epsilon]}:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$
for $\epsilon>0$.
For a step function $t,ドル being a finite linear combination ...
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Integration by parts and approximating a characteristic function seems to show that nearly every integral vanishes
I want to evaluate an integral and to do that found a trick to integrate the primitive instead of the function (in my case, that really helps). But in the end, I always get 0, which should not happen. ...
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Do the ODEs satisfied by characteristic functions have a probabilistic interpretation?
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While studying the Poisson distribution, I came across the equation:
$$
\mathbf{E}[\lambda,円g(X)] = \mathbf{E}[X,円g(X-1)],
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which holds for a Poisson random variable $X \sim \text{Poisson}...
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Sufficient Conditions for lower bound on absolute value of Characteristic Function
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Let $X$ be a random variable taking values in $\mathbb{R}$ and let
$F$ be its probability distribution function (that may not have a density). Denote the characteristic function as
$\varphi(...
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Ratio of cubic and quadratic form, as elementary symmetric polynomials, is normal?
This is a sequel of Ratio of cubic and quadratic form is approximately normal?
Let be $x_{1},x_{2},..., x_{n}$ i.i.d. random variables following a normal distribution with $\mu=0$ and $\sigma=1$. ...
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Deriving the density of spherical distribution from its characteristic function
It is well known that the characteristic function $\varphi(\mathbf{t})$ of $\mathbf{x}\in\mathbb{R}^{n}$ following a spherical distribution is of form
$$
\varphi(\mathbf{t})=\phi(\mathbf{t}^{\mathrm{...
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About characteristic function and their powers
I am studying real analysis. I ended up with the following exercise: suppose that $f \in L^1(0, 1),ドル $f \geq 0$ a. e. and suppose that there exists $c \geq 0$ such that
$$\int_0^1 (f(x))^n dx = c, $$
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Trace of an orthogonal matrix not equal to sum of eigenvalues
I was taught that any orthogonal matrix must have eigenvalues of magnitude 1, i.e. $\lambda_i=\pm1,\forall i$. However, I am given the following matrix
$$
M = \frac{1}{2}\begin{pmatrix}
-1 & -1 &...
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Proving a multivariate characteristic function formula
I was attempting to prove the characteristic function formula
$$Z_x(\lambda) = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{i^n}{n!} \sum_{j_1, ..., j_n} \lambda_{j_1} ... \lambda_{j_n} \langle x(r_{j_1}) ... x(r_{j_n}) ...
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Integration over infinite indicator functions
I have a problem where I want to integrate over is
\begin{equation}
\int{}I_{\{f(t)\}}(s)n(s,t)ds.
\end{equation}
$f(t)$ is a continuous function and at any $t$ the set $\{f(t)\}$ is a single point. I ...