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Is the density of Chernoff's distribution - the law of argmax_t W(t) - t^2 for two-sided Brownian motion W - strongly log-concave, as conjectured by Balabdaoui and Wellner in 2014?
Let X_1,…,X_n be independent nonnegative random variables with EX_i ≤ 1, and let S be their sum. Is P(S < ES + 1) ≥ 1/e? Feige proved the constant 1/13 and conjectured the sharp 1/e. Three independent July 2026 proofs settle it, both…
Given n independent standard Gaussian vectors in R^d, an ellipsoid fit is a positive semidefinite S with x_i' S x_i = d for every i. Saunderson, Parrilo and Willsky conjectured that this semidefinite feasibility problem has a sharp…
The discrete-time Kac walk on S^n-1 started from a coordinate vector exhibits total variation cutoff at C_BRW n log n, where C_BRW ≈ 3.8916 is set by the speed of the leftmost particle in a branching random walk. The cutoff is therefore…