On the boundedness of Bernoulli processes

Pages 1167-1203 from Volume 180 (2014), Issue 3 by Witold Bednorz, Rafał Latała

Abstract

We present a positive solution to the so-called Bernoulli Conjecture concerning the characterization of sample boundedness of Bernoulli processes. We also discuss some applications and related open problems.

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Keywords
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4007/annals.2014.180.3.8
MR
3245015
zbMATH
1309.60053
Milestones
Received: 24 May 2013
Accepted: 20 November 2013
Published online: 1 November 2014

Authors

Witold Bednorz

Institute of Mathematics, University of Warsaw, Warszawa, Poland

Rafał Latała

Institute of Mathematics, University of Warsaw, Warszawa, Poland