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The entropic Erdős-Kac limit theorem. (English) Zbl 1335.60018
Authors’ abstract: We prove entropic and total variation versions of the Erdős-Kac limit theorem for the maximum of the partial sums of i.i.d. random variables with densities.

##### MSC:
 60F05 Central limit and other weak theorems 60G70 Extreme value theory; extremal stochastic processes 60G50 Sums of independent random variables; random walks 60E10 Characteristic functions; other transforms 94A15 Information theory (general)
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