A shorter proof of Kanter's Bessel function concentration bound
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We give a shorter proof of Kanter's (1976) sharp Bessel function bound for concentrations of sums of independent symmetric random vectors. We provide sharp upper bounds for the sum of modified Bessel functions $I_0(x)+I_1(x)$, which might be of independent interest. Corollaries improve concentration or smoothness bounds for sums of independent random variables due to Cekanavicius & Roos (2006), Roos (2005), Barbour & Xia 1999), and Le Cam (1986).
12 pages. Two references added. Accepted for publication by Probability Theory and Related Fields
12 pages. Two references added. Accepted for publication by Probability Theory and Related Fields