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  1. Free, publicly-accessible full text available November 15, 2025
  2. Abstract We prove an extension of Szarek’s optimal Khinchin inequality (1976) for distributions close to the Rademacher one, when all the weights are uniformly bounded by a$$1/\sqrt{2}$$ 1 / 2 fraction of their total$$\ell _2$$ 2 -mass. We also show a similar extension of the probabilistic formulation of Ball’s cube slicing inequality (1986). These results establish the distributional stability of these optimal Khinchin-type inequalities. The underpinning to such estimates is the Fourier-analytic approach going back to Haagerup (1981). 
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  3. Suppose that the edges of a complete graph are assigned weights independently at random and we ask for the weight of the minimal-weight spanning tree, or perfect matching, or Hamiltonian cycle. For these and several other common optimisation problems, we establish asymptotically tight bounds when the weights are independent copies of a symmetric random variable (satisfying a mild condition on tail probabilities), in particular when the weights are Gaussian. 
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  4. We study the minimum spanning arborescence problem on the complete digraph [Formula: see text], where an edge e has a weight W e and a cost C e , each of which is an independent uniform random variable U s , where [Formula: see text] and U is uniform [Formula: see text]. There is also a constraint that the spanning arborescence T must satisfy [Formula: see text]. We establish, for a range of values for [Formula: see text], the asymptotic value of the optimum weight via the consideration of a dual problem. 
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  5. Abstract We prove a dimension‐free stability result for polydisc slicing due to Oleszkiewicz and Pełczyński. Intriguingly, compared to the real case, there is an additional asymptotic maximizer. In addition to Fourier‐analytic bounds, we crucially rely on a self‐improving feature of polydisc slicing, established via probabilistic arguments. 
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