Probability Seminar: Duality between Total Variation and Equivalence Couplings

Probability Seminar: Duality between Total Variation and Equivalence Couplings

Probability Seminar
Apr 12, 2023, 03:10 PM - 04:00 PM | 340 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Adam Jaffe, UC Berkeley

A classical lemma (sometimes attributed to Doeblin) relates the total variation distance between two probability measures to the minimal probability that two random variables with these laws can be made to disagree under all possible couplings. This talk focuses on a generalization of this problem where the random variables are asked, instead, to be equivalent under an arbitrary equivalence...