Uniform Upper Bound for a Stable Measure of a Small Ball

Michal Ryznar (Wroclaw University of Technology)
Tomasz Zak (Wroclaw University of Technology)

Abstract


P. Hitczenko, S.Kwapien, W.N.Li, G.Schechtman, T.Schlumprecht and J.Zinn stated the following conjecture. Let $\mu$ be a symmetric $\alpha$-stable measure on a separable Banach space and $B$ a centered ball such that $\mu(B)\le b$. Then there exists a constant $R(b)$, depending only on $b$, such that $\mu(tB)\le R(b)t\mu(B)$ for all $0 < t < 1$. We prove that the above inequality holds but the constant $R$ must depend also on $\alpha$.

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Pages: 75-78

Publication Date: September 16, 1998

DOI: 10.1214/ECP.v3-995

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