Any random variable with right-unbounded distributional support is the minimum of independent and very heavy-tailed random variables
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| author | Foss, Sergey Tarasenko, Anton Krivtsov, Georgiy |
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| contents | A random variable $ξ$ has a {\it light-tailed} distribution (for short: is light-tailed) if it possesses a finite exponential moment, $\E \exp (λξ) <\infty$ for some $λ>0$, and has a {\it heavy-tailed} distribution (is heavy-tailed) if $\E \exp (λξ) = \infty$, for all $λ>0$. In (Leipus et al., AIMS Mathematics, 2023), the authors presented a particular example of a light-tailed random variable that is the minimum of two independent heavy-tailed random variables. We will show that this phenomenon is universal: {\it any} light-tailed random variable with right-unbounded support may be represented as the minimum of two independent heavy-tailed random variables. Moreover, a more general fact holds: these two independent random variables may have as heavy-tailed distributions as one wishes. Further, we will extend the latter result onto the minimum of any finite number of independent random variables. We will also comment on possible generalizations of our result to the case of dependent random variables. |
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| spellingShingle | Any random variable with right-unbounded distributional support is the minimum of independent and very heavy-tailed random variables Foss, Sergey Tarasenko, Anton Krivtsov, Georgiy Probability 60E05 A random variable $ξ$ has a {\it light-tailed} distribution (for short: is light-tailed) if it possesses a finite exponential moment, $\E \exp (λξ) <\infty$ for some $λ>0$, and has a {\it heavy-tailed} distribution (is heavy-tailed) if $\E \exp (λξ) = \infty$, for all $λ>0$. In (Leipus et al., AIMS Mathematics, 2023), the authors presented a particular example of a light-tailed random variable that is the minimum of two independent heavy-tailed random variables. We will show that this phenomenon is universal: {\it any} light-tailed random variable with right-unbounded support may be represented as the minimum of two independent heavy-tailed random variables. Moreover, a more general fact holds: these two independent random variables may have as heavy-tailed distributions as one wishes. Further, we will extend the latter result onto the minimum of any finite number of independent random variables. We will also comment on possible generalizations of our result to the case of dependent random variables. |
| title | Any random variable with right-unbounded distributional support is the minimum of independent and very heavy-tailed random variables |
| topic | Probability 60E05 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08954 |