Yan Wang

A Proof of the Erd\H{o}s Matching Conjecture for Large Matchings via Sharp Tail Probability for Sums of i.i.d. Nonnegative Random Variables

We resolve a conjecture of \L{}uczak, Mieczkowska and \v{S}ileikis on the maximal tail probability of sums of independent and identically distributed nonnegative random variables. Specifically, for every integer $k\ge1$ and every $0\le x\le1/k$, we prove \[ \sup_{\mathbb E X_1\le x}\mathbb{P}(X_1+\cdots+X_k\ge1) =\max\...