On Uniform Approximations of Normal Distributions By Jacobi Theta Functions

2018/10/12 by Zhang, Ruiming
#Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1810.08535

Abstract

In this short note we study uniform approximations to the normal distributions by Jacobi theta functions. We shall show that scaled theta functions approach to a normal distribution exponentially fast.

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