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Lower bounds on the small ball probability are given for Brownian sheet type Gaussian fields as well as for general Gaussian fields with stationary increments in ℝd. In particular, a sharp bound is found for the fractional Lévy Brownian fields.
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The research is partly supported by a National University of Singapore's Research Project