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Strong bounds on perturbations

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  • Bernd Heidergott
  • Arie Hordijk
  • Haralambie Leahu

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This paper provides strong bounds on perturbations over a collection of independent random variables, where ‘strong’ has to be understood as uniform w.r.t. some functional norm. Our analysis is based on studying the concept of weak differentiability. By applying a fundamental result from the theory of Banach spaces, we show that weak differentiability implies norm Lipschitz continuity. This result leads to bounds on the sensitivity of finite products of probability measures, in norm sense. We apply our results to derive bounds on perturbations for the transient waiting times in a G/G/1 queue. Copyright The Author(s) 2009

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  • Bernd Heidergott & Arie Hordijk & Haralambie Leahu, 2009. "Strong bounds on perturbations," Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, Springer;Gesellschaft für Operations Research (GOR);Nederlands Genootschap voor Besliskunde (NGB), vol. 70(1), pages 99-127, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:mathme:v:70:y:2009:i:1:p:99-127
    DOI: 10.1007/s00186-008-0233-x
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    1. Bernd Heidergott & Haralambie Leahu, 2010. "Weak Differentiability of Product Measures," Mathematics of Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 35(1), pages 27-51, February.

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