Extremal properties of rademacher functions with applications to the khintchine and rosenthal inequalities

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 349, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 997-1027

  Figiel, T ^a,b   Hitczenko, P ^b,c   Johnson, W B ^a,c   Schechtman, G ^b,d   Zinn, J ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Poland)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Extremal problem; Khintchine inequality; Orlicz function; Rademacher functions; Rosenthal inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 21744443910     PISSN: 00029947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0002-9947-97-01789-3     Document Type: Article

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