An Open Problem on Sums of Independent Random Variables

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I’m enjoying EC this week, and had two thoughts. First, interesting math problems are often buried deep in a paper that is nominally on another topic. Second, there are lots of bright people who might know how to solve these math problems, but never see them! Inspired by these thoughts, I am sharing one open problem from my work Lotteries for Shared Experiences with Carlos Bonet, which involves…

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