Proof of Gaussian moment product conjecture

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Abstract

For an nn-dimensional real-valued centered Gaussian random vector (X1,…,Xn)(X_1,\ldots,X_n) with any covariance matrix, the following moment product conjecture is proved in this paper E∏j=1nXj2mj≥∏j=1nEXj2mj, \mathbb{E}\prod_{j=1}^nX_j^{2m_j}\geq \prod_{j=1}^n\mathbb{E}X_j^{2m_j}, where mj≥1,1≤j≤n,m_j\geq1,1\leq j\leq n, are any positive integers. Among other important applications, a special case of this conjecture (with mj=m,1≤j≤nm_j=m,1\leq j\leq n) would give an affirmative answer to another open problem: real linear polarization constant. The proof is based on a very elegant and elementary approach in which only one component XjX_j of the random vector is chosen with varying variance.

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