Where to stand when playing darts?
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2021
We show that if X has a so-called selfdecomposable distribution, then it is always better to stand closer for any payoff function. This class includes all stable distributions as well as many more.
On the other hand, if the payoff function is cos(x), then it is always better to stand closer if and only if the characteristic function |phi_X(t)| is decreasing on [0,infty). We will then show that if there are at least two point masses, then it is not always better to stand closer using cos(x). If there is a single
point mass, one can find a different payoff function to obtain this phenomenon.
Another large class of darts X for which there are bounded continuous payoff functions for which it is not always better to stand closer are distributions with compact support. This will be obtained by using the fact that the Fourier transform of such distributions has a zero in the complex plane.
This argument will work whenever there is a complex zero of the Fourier transform.
Finally, we analyze if the property of it being better to stand closer is closed under convolution and/or limits.
selfdecomposable distributions
Fourier transforms
darts
Författare
Bjorn Franzen
Student vid Chalmers
Jeffrey Steif
Chalmers, Matematiska vetenskaper, Analys och sannolikhetsteori
Johan Wästlund
Chalmers, Matematiska vetenskaper, Analys och sannolikhetsteori
Alea
1980-0436 (ISSN)
Vol. 18 1 1561-1583Färgning av slumpmässiga ekvivalensrelationer, slumpvandringar på dynamisk perkolation och bruskänslighet för gränsgrafen i den Erdös-Renyi-slumpgrafsmodellen
Vetenskapsrådet (VR) (2016-03835), 2017-01-01 -- 2020-12-31.
Ämneskategorier
Matematik
Sannolikhetsteori och statistik
Matematisk analys
DOI
10.30757/ALEA.v18-57