A point in the Euclidean plane $\mathbb{R}^2$.
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The length $L_n$ of the optimal Travelling Salesman tour through the $n$ points $\mathit{points}_0, \dots, \mathit{points}_{n-1}$: the infimum over permutations $σ$ of the total cyclic distance $\sum_i \mathrm{dist}(\mathit{points}_{σ(i)}, \mathit{points}_{σ(i+1 \bmod n)})$. Returns $0$ when $n = 0$.
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The random variable $X$ is $K$-sub-Gaussian about its mean under $μ$: for every $t \geq 0$, $μ(\{ω : |X(ω) - \mathbb{E}_μ X| \geq t\}) \leq 2 e^{-t^2 / K^2}$.
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Harmonic-sum bound: $\sum_{i=0}^{n-1} \frac{1}{n - i} = H_n \leq 1 + \log n$.
The Azuma variance sum for the TSP martingale differences is bounded by $C^2 (1 + \log n)$: $\sum_{i=0}^{n-1} \bigl(C / \sqrt{n - i}\bigr)^2 \leq C^2 (1 + \log n)$.
Theorem 9.6.1 (Rhee–Talagrand 1987): given an Azuma-type bound on the deviations of $L$ with martingale-difference variance summing to $2 \sum_i (C / \sqrt{n-i})^2$, the TSP tour length $L$ is $\sqrt{2 C^2 (1 + \log n)}$-sub-Gaussian about its mean, hence $O(\sqrt{\log n})$-sub-Gaussian.