Zulip Chat Archive

Stream: Is there code for X?

Topic: Lapalace Distribution


Reuven Peleg (Dec 31 2025 at 13:19):

The Laplace Distribution which can be described as the difference between two independent variates with identical exponential distributions, plays a major role in differential privacy, among other fields. Does someone know about an existing LEAN definition of it (and proofs for PMF, expectation and variance) somewhere already?
I tried Google, the docs at Mathlib/Probability/Distributions, and some LLM-assisted search but found nothing.

Etienne Marion (Dec 31 2025 at 15:14):

I am pretty sure we do not have it.


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