An improvement of convergence rate in the local limit theorem for integral-valued random variables

Abstract

AbstractLet $X_{1}, X_{2}, \ldots , X_{n}$ X 1 , X 2 , … , X n be independent integral-valued random variables, and let $S_{n}=\sum_{j=1}^{n}X_{j}$ S n = ∑ j = 1 n X j . One of the interesting probabilities is the probability at a particular point, i.e., the density of $S_{n}$ S n . The theorem that gives the estimation of this probability is called the local limit theorem. This theorem can be useful in finance, biology, etc. Petrov (Sums of Independent Random Variables, 1975) gave the rate $O (\frac{1}{n} )$ O ( 1 n ) of the local limit theorem with finite third moment condition. Most of the bounds of convergence are usually defined with the symbol O. Giuliano Antonini and Weber (Bernoulli 23(4B):3268–3310, 2017) were the first who gave the explicit constant C of error bound $\frac{C}{\sqrt{n}}$ C n . In this paper, we improve the convergence rate and constants of error bounds in local limit theorem for $S_{n}$ S n . Our constants are less complicated than before, and thus easy to use.