Concentration of Lipschitz functionals of determinantal and other strong Rayleigh measures

Combinatorics Probability and Computing

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 140-160

  Pemantle, Robin ^a   Peres, Yuval ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION INEQUALITY; FUNCTIONALS; GAUSSIANS; LIPSCHITZ FUNCTIONS; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL; POINT PROCESS; SPANNING TREE; VERTEX SET;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; PROBABILITY;

PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES;

EID: 84889652595     PISSN: 09635483     EISSN: 14692163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0963548313000345     Document Type: Article

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