Symmetrization and decoupling of combinatorial random elements (Q1273017)

Symmetrization and decoupling are proved to be powerful tools in obtaining moment and tail inequalities for certain stochastic processes. The present note deals with independent stochastic processes on some index set \(I\) (or just real random variables) and provides, for a broad class of convex functions on \(\mathbb{R}^I\), some symmetrization and decoupling inequalities. The stochastic processes considered here appear in various stochastic applications involving randomization.