We prove two deterministic results for families of distances arising in the study of canonical processes. The first derives an admissible partition scheme from a growth condition. The second gives a representation in terms of parameterized separation trees and compares it with the corresponding majorizing-measure quant...
We resolve the Rademacher singularity conjecture: an $n\times n$ matrix with independent uniform $\{-1,1\}$ entries is singular with probability $(2+o(1))n^22^{-n}$. More generally, for an $n\times n$ matrix $M_n$ with independent entries uniform on a fixed set $S\subset\mathbb{R}$ of cardinality $q\ge2$, we prove $\ma...
Let $Y_1,\ldots,Y_n$ be independent symmetric random variables with log-concave tails. We give a dimension-free characterization of the expected supremum of the canonical process $X_x=\sum_{i=1}^n x_iY_i$ without any $\Delta_2$ or regular-growth assumption on the coordinate tails. The characterization is governed by sc...