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Theorem 59.8.6 Let \( \mu \) and \( \nu \) be probability measures on the Borel sets of \( {\mathbb{R}}^{p} \) and suppose \( {\phi }_{\mu }\left( \mathbf{t}\right) = {\phi }_{\nu }\left( \mathbf{t}\right) \) . Then \( \mu = \nu \) .
Proof: The proof is identical to the above. Just replace \( {\lambda }_{\mathbf{X}} \) with \( \mu \) and \( {\lambda }_{\mathbf{Y}} \) with \( \nu \) . \( \blacksquare \)
Yes
Proposition 59.9.3 Equations 59.9.14 and 59.9.13 hold with \( {\mathcal{X}}_{E} \) replaced by any nonnegative Borel measurable function and for any bounded continuous function or for any function in \( {L}^{1} \) .
Proof: The two equations hold for simple functions in place of \( {\mathcal{X}}_{E} \) and so an application of the monotone convergence theorem applied to an increasing sequence of simple functions converging pointwise to a given nonnegative Borel measurable function yields the conclusion of the proposition in the cas...
Yes
Lemma 59.9.4 Let \( {\mathbf{X}}_{1},\cdots ,{\mathbf{X}}_{n} \) be random vectors with values in \( {\mathbb{R}}^{{p}_{1}},\cdots ,{\mathbb{R}}^{{p}_{n}} \) respectively and let \( \mathbf{g} : {\mathbb{R}}^{{p}_{1}} \times \cdots \times {\mathbb{R}}^{{p}_{n}} \rightarrow {\mathbb{R}}^{k} \) be Borel measurable. Then ...
Proof: First let \( E \) be a Borel set in \( {\mathbb{R}}^{k} \) . From the definition,\n\n\[{\lambda }_{\mathbf{g}\left( {{\mathbf{X}}_{1},\cdots ,{\mathbf{X}}_{n}}\right) }\left( E\right) = P\left( {\mathbf{g}\left( {{\mathbf{X}}_{1},\cdots ,{\mathbf{X}}_{n}}\right) \in E}\right)\]\n\n\[= P\left( {\left( {{\mathbf{X...
Yes
Proposition 59.9.5 Let \( {\nu }_{1},\cdots ,{\nu }_{n} \) be Radon probability measures defined on \( {\mathbb{R}}^{p} \) . Then there exists a probability space and independent random vectors \( \left\{ {{\mathbf{X}}_{1},\cdots ,{\mathbf{X}}_{n}}\right\} \) defined on this probability space such that \( {\lambda }_{{...
Proof: Let \( \left( {\Omega ,\mathcal{S}, P}\right) \equiv \left( {{\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{p}\right) }^{n},{\mathcal{S}}_{1} \times \cdots \times {\mathcal{S}}_{n},{\nu }_{1} \times \cdots \times {\nu }_{n}}\right) \) where this is just the product \( \sigma \) algebra and product measure which satisfies the following f...
Yes
Lemma 59.9.6 If \( {\left\{ {X}_{i}\right\} }_{i = 1}^{n} \) are independent random variables having values in \( \mathbb{R} \) , \n\n\[ \nE\left( {\mathop{\prod }\limits_{{i = 1}}^{n}{X}_{i}}\right) = \mathop{\prod }\limits_{{i = 1}}^{n}E\left( {X}_{i}\right) \n\]
Proof: By Lemma 59.9.4 and denoting by \( P \) the product, \( \mathop{\prod }\limits_{{i = 1}}^{n}{X}_{i} \) , \n\n\[ \nE\left( {\mathop{\prod }\limits_{{i = 1}}^{n}{X}_{i}}\right) = {\int }_{\mathbb{R}}{zd}{\lambda }_{P}\left( z\right) = {\int }_{{\mathbb{R}}^{n}}\mathop{\prod }\limits_{{i = 1}}^{n}{x}_{i}d{\lambda }...
Yes
Proposition 59.10.2 Suppose \( {\int }_{{\mathbb{F}}^{{p}_{1}} \times {\mathbb{F}}^{{p}_{2}}}\left| \mathbf{x}\right| d{\lambda }_{\left( \mathbf{X},\mathbf{Y}\right) }\left( x\right) < \infty \) . Then \( E\left( {\mathbf{X} \mid \mathbf{y}}\right) \) exists for \( {\lambda }_{\mathbf{Y}} \) a.e. \( \mathbf{y} \) and\...
Proof: \( \infty > {\int }_{{\mathbb{F}}^{{p}_{1}} \times {\mathbb{F}}^{{p}_{2}}}\left| \mathbf{x}\right| d{\lambda }_{\left( \mathbf{X},\mathbf{Y}\right) } = {\int }_{{\mathbb{F}}^{{p}_{2}}}{\int }_{{\mathbb{F}}^{{p}_{1}}}\left| \mathbf{x}\right| d{\lambda }_{\mathbf{X} \mid \mathbf{y}}\left( x\right) d{\lambda }_{\ma...
Yes
Proposition 59.10.5 Let \( {\left\{ {X}_{i}\right\} }_{i = 1}^{n} \) be a finite sequence of real random variables defined on \( \Omega \) where \( \left( {\Omega ,\mathcal{S}, P}\right) \) is a probability space. Let \( {U}_{\left\lbrack a, b\right\rbrack }\left( \omega \right) \) denote the number of upcrossings of \...
Proof: Let \( {X}_{0}\left( \omega \right) \equiv a + 1 \), let \( {Y}_{0}\left( \omega \right) \equiv 0 \), and let \( {Y}_{k}\left( \omega \right) \) remain 0 for \( k = 0,\cdots, l \) until \( {X}_{l}\left( \omega \right) \leq a \) . When this happens (if ever), \( {Y}_{l + 1}\left( \omega \right) \equiv 1 \) . Then...
Yes
Lemma 59.10.7 (upcrossing lemma) Let \( {\left\{ {X}_{i}\right\} }_{i = 1}^{n} \) be a submartingale and suppose\n\n\[ E\left( \left| {X}_{n}\right| \right) < \infty .\n\]\n\nThen\n\[ E\left( {U}_{\left\lbrack a, b\right\rbrack }\right) \leq \frac{E\left( \left| {X}_{n}\right| \right) + \left| a\right| }{b - a}. \]
Proof: Let \( \phi \left( x\right) \equiv a + {\left( x - a\right) }^{ + } \) . Thus \( \phi \) is a convex and increasing function.\n\n\[ \phi \left( {X}_{k + r}\right) - \phi \left( {X}_{k}\right) = \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{i = k + 1}}^{{k + r}}\phi \left( {X}_{i}\right) - \phi \left( {X}_{i - 1}\right) \]\n\n\[ = \ma...
Yes
Theorem 59.10.8 (submartingale convergence theorem) Let \( {\left\{ {X}_{i}\right\} }_{i = 1}^{\infty } \) be a sub-martingale with \( K \equiv \sup \left\{ {E\left( \left| {X}_{n}\right| \right) : n \geq 1}\right\} < \infty \) . Then there exists a random variable, \( {X}_{\infty } \), such that \( E\left( \left| {X}_...
Proof: Let \( a, b \in \mathbb{Q} \) and let \( a < b \) . Let \( {U}_{\left\lbrack a, b\right\rbrack }^{n}\left( \omega \right) \) be the number of upcrossings of \( {\left\{ {X}_{i}\left( \omega \right) \right\} }_{i = 1}^{n} \) . Then let\n\n\[ {U}_{\left\lbrack a, b\right\rbrack }\left( \omega \right) \equiv \matho...
Yes
Lemma 59.11.2 Let \( \\mathbf{Y} \) be a random vector with values in \( {\\mathbb{R}}^{p} \) and let \( f \) be bounded and measurable with respect to the Radon measure \( {\\lambda }_{\\mathbf{Y}} \), and satisfy\n\n\[ \n\\int f\\left( \\mathbf{y}\\right) {e}^{i\\mathbf{t} \\cdot \\mathbf{y}}d{\\lambda }_{\\mathbf{Y}...
Proof: You could write the following for \( \\phi \\in \\mathcal{G} \)\n\n\[ \n\\int \\phi \\left( \\mathbf{t}\\right) \\int f\\left( \\mathbf{y}\\right) {e}^{i\\mathbf{t} \\cdot \\mathbf{y}}d{\\lambda }_{\\mathbf{Y}}{dt} = 0 = \\int f\\left( \\mathbf{y}\\right) \\left( {\\int \\phi \\left( \\mathbf{t}\\right) {e}^{i\\...
Yes
Lemma 59.11.3 Suppose \( \mathbf{X},{\mathbf{Y}}_{1},{\mathbf{Y}}_{2},\cdots ,{\mathbf{Y}}_{k} \) are random vectors \( \mathbf{X} \) having values in \( {\mathbb{R}}^{n} \) and \( {\mathbf{Y}}_{j} \) having values in \( {\mathbb{R}}^{{p}_{j}} \) and\n\n\[ \mathbf{X},{\mathbf{Y}}_{j} \in {L}^{1}\left( \Omega \right) \]...
Proof: For the sake of brevity, denote by \( \mathbf{Y} \) the vector \( \left( {{\mathbf{Y}}_{1},\cdots ,{\mathbf{Y}}_{k}}\right) \) and by \( \mathbf{y} \) the vector \( \left( {{\mathbf{y}}_{1},\cdots ,{\mathbf{y}}_{k}}\right) \) and let \( \mathop{\prod }\limits_{{j = 1}}^{k}{\mathbb{R}}^{{p}_{j}} \equiv {\mathbb{R...
Yes
Lemma 59.11.4 There exists a unique function \( \mathbf{Z}\left( \omega \right) \) which satisfies\n\n\[ \n{\int }_{F}\mathbf{X}\left( \omega \right) {dP} = {\int }_{F}\mathbf{Z}\left( \omega \right) {dP} \n\]\n\nfor all \( F \in \sigma \left( {{\mathbf{Y}}_{1},\cdots ,{\mathbf{Y}}_{k}}\right) \) such that \( \mathbf{Z...
Proof: It is like the above. Letting \( E \) be a Borel set in \( {\mathbb{R}}^{p} \) ,\n\n\[ \n{\int }_{{\mathbf{Y}}^{-1}\left( E\right) }\mathbf{X}{dP} = {\int }_{{\mathbb{R}}^{n} \times {\mathbb{R}}^{P}}{\mathcal{X}}_{{\mathbb{R}}^{n} \times E}\left( {\mathbf{x},\mathbf{y}}\right) \mathbf{x}d{\lambda }_{\left( \math...
Yes
Corollary 59.12.5 Let \( \mathcal{K} \) be a \( \pi \) system of subsets of \( \Omega \) and suppose two probability measures, \( \mu \) and \( \nu \) defined on \( \sigma \left( \mathcal{K}\right) \) are equal on \( \mathcal{K} \) . Then \( \mu = \nu \) .
Proof: This follows from the Lemma 12.12.3 on Page 347. Let\n\n\[ \mathcal{G} \equiv \{ E \in \sigma \left( \mathcal{K}\right) : \mu \left( E\right) = \nu \left( E\right) \}\]\n\nThen \( \mathcal{K} \subseteq \mathcal{G} \), since \( \mu \) and \( \nu \) are both probability measures, it follows that if \( E \in \mathc...
Yes
Lemma 59.12.6 If \( E \) is a separable Banach space with \( {B}^{\prime } \) the closed unit ball in \( {E}^{\prime } \), then there exists a sequence \( {\left\{ {f}_{n}\right\} }_{n = 1}^{\infty } \equiv {D}^{\prime } \subseteq {B}^{\prime } \) with the property that for every \( x \in E \) , \[ \parallel x\parallel...
Letting \( {\left\{ {f}_{n}\right\} }_{n = 1}^{\infty } = {D}^{\prime } \) be the sequence of Lemma 59.12.6 it follows that \[ \{ x \in E : \parallel x - a\parallel \leq \delta \} = \left\{ {x \in E : \mathop{\sup }\limits_{{f \in {D}^{\prime }}}\left| {f\left( {x - a}\right) }\right| \leq \delta }\right\} = \left\{ {x...
No
Theorem 59.12.9 Let \( \mu \) and \( \nu \) be two probability measures on \( \mathcal{B}\left( E\right) \) where \( E \) is a separable real Banach space. Suppose\n\n\[{\phi }_{\mu }\left( {x}^{ * }\right) = {\phi }_{\nu }\left( {x}^{ * }\right)\]\n\nfor all \( {x}^{ * } \in {E}^{\prime } \) . Then \( \mu = \nu \) .
Proof: It suffices to verify that \( \mu \left( A\right) = \nu \left( A\right) \) for all \( A \in \mathcal{K} \) where \( \mathcal{K} \) is the set of cylindrical sets. Fix \( {\mathbf{g}}_{n} \in {\left( {E}^{\prime }\right) }^{n} \) . Thus the two measures are equal if for all such \( {\mathbf{g}}_{n}, n \in \mathbb...
Yes
Theorem 59.13.3 Let \( {\left\{ {X}_{k}\right\} }_{k = 1}^{n} \) be random variables such that \( {X}_{k} \) has values in \( {E}_{k} \), a real separable Banach space. Then the random variables are independent if and only if\n\n\[ E\left( {e}^{iP}\right) = \mathop{\prod }\limits_{{j = 1}}^{n}E\left( {e}^{i{t}_{j}^{ * ...
Proof: If the random variables are independent, then so are the random variables, \( {t}_{j}^{ * }\left( {X}_{j}\right) \) and so the equation follows.\n\nThe interesting case is when the equation holds.\n\nIt suffices to consider only the case where each \( {E}_{k} = E \) . This is because you can consider each \( {X}...
Yes
Corollary 59.13.4 Let \( {\left\{ {X}_{k}\right\} }_{k = 1}^{n} \) be random variables such that \( {X}_{k} \) has values in \( {E}_{k} \), a real separable Banach space. Then the random variables are independent if and only if\n\n\[ E\left( {e}^{iP}\right) = \mathop{\prod }\limits_{{j = 1}}^{n}E\left( {e}^{i{t}_{j}^{ ...
Proof: The easy direction follows from Theorem 59.13.3. Suppose then the above equation holds for all \( {t}_{j}^{ * } \in {M}_{j} \) . Then let \( {t}_{j}^{ * } \in {E}^{\prime } \) and let \( \left\{ {t}_{nj}^{ * }\right\} \) be a sequence in \( {M}_{j} \) such that\n\n\[ \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{n \rightarrow \infty ...
Yes
Lemma 59.14.1 Suppose \( K \) is a compact subset of \( U \) an open set in \( E \) a metric space. Then there exists \( \delta > 0 \) such that\n\n\[ \operatorname{dist}\left( {x, K}\right) + \operatorname{dist}\left( {x,{U}^{C}}\right) \geq \delta \text{ for all }x \in E. \]
Proof: For each \( x \in K \), there exists a ball, \( B\left( {x,{\delta }_{x}}\right) \) such that \( B\left( {x,3{\delta }_{x}}\right) \subseteq U \) . Finitely many of these balls cover \( K \) because \( K \) is compact, say \( {\left\{ B\left( {x}_{i},{\delta }_{{x}_{i}}\right) \right\} }_{i = 1}^{m} \) . Let\n\n...
Yes
Corollary 59.14.2 Suppose \( K \) is a compact subset of \( U \), an open set in \( E \) a metric space. Then there exists a uniformly continuous function \( f \) defined on all of \( E \) , having values in \( \left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rbrack \) such that \( f\left( x\right) = 0 \) if \( x \notin U \) and \( f\left( x\...
Proof: Consider\n\n\[ f\left( x\right) \equiv \frac{\operatorname{dist}\left( {x,{U}^{C}}\right) }{\operatorname{dist}\left( {x,{U}^{C}}\right) + \operatorname{dist}\left( {x, K}\right) }.\]\n\nThen some algebra yields\n\n\[ \left| {f\left( x\right) - f\left( {x}^{\prime }\right) }\right| \leq \]\n\n\[ \frac{1}{\delta ...
Yes
Theorem 59.14.3 Let \( \mu \) be a finite measure on \( \mathcal{B}\left( E\right) \) where \( E \) is a separable Banach space and let \( f \in {L}^{p}\left( {E;\mu }\right) \) . Then for any \( \varepsilon > 0 \), there exists a uniformly continuous, bounded \( g \) defined on \( E \) such that \[ \parallel f - g{\pa...
Proof: As usual in such situations, it suffices to consider only \( f \geq 0 \) . Then by Theorem 11.3.9 on Page 257 and an application of the monotone convergence theorem, there exists a simple measurable function, \[ s\left( x\right) \equiv \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{k = 1}}^{m}{c}_{k}{\mathcal{X}}_{{A}_{k}}\left( x\rig...
Yes
Lemma 59.14.6 For A a Borel set in E, a separable Banach space, define\n\n\[ \n{S}_{A} \equiv \{ \left( {x, y}\right) \in E \times E : x + y \in A\} \n\]\n\nThen \( {S}_{A} \in \mathcal{B}\left( E\right) \times \mathcal{B}\left( E\right) \), the \( \sigma \) algebra of product measurable sets, the smallest \( \sigma \)...
Proof: Let \( \mathcal{K} \) denote the open sets in \( E \) . Then \( \mathcal{K} \) is a \( \pi \) system. Let\n\n\[ \n\mathcal{G} \equiv \{ A \in \sigma \left( \mathcal{K}\right) = \mathcal{B}\left( E\right) : {S}_{A} \in \mathcal{B}\left( E\right) \times \mathcal{B}\left( E\right) \} .\n\]\n\nThen \( \mathcal{K} \s...
Yes
Theorem 59.14.7 Let \( \mu ,\nu \), and \( \lambda \) be finite measures on \( \mathcal{B}\left( E\right) \) for \( E \) a separable Banach space. Then\n\n\[ \mu * \nu = \nu * \mu \]\n\n\( \left( {59.14.23}\right) \)\n\n\[ \left( {\mu * \nu }\right) * \lambda = \mu * \left( {\nu * \lambda }\right) \]\n\n(59.14.24)
Proof: First consider 59.14.23. Letting \( A \in \mathcal{B}\left( E\right) \), the following computation\n\nholds from Fubini's theorem and Lemma 59.14.6\n\n\[ \mu * \nu \left( A\right) \equiv {\int }_{E}\nu \left( {A - x}\right) {d\mu }\left( x\right) = {\int }_{E}{\int }_{E}{\mathcal{X}}_{{S}_{A}}\left( {x, y}\right...
Yes
Lemma 59.15.2 Let \( \\left( {\\Omega ,\\mathcal{F}, P}\\right) \) be a probability space and let \( \\mathbf{X} : \\Omega \\rightarrow E \) be a random variable, where \( E \) is a real separable Banach space. Also let \( \\mathcal{L}\\left( \\mathbf{X}\\right) = \\mu \), a probability measure defined on \( \\mathcal{...
Proof: First suppose \( A \) is a Borel set in \( E \) . Then\n\n\[ \n{\\int }_{E}{\\mathcal{X}}_{A}\\left( \\mathbf{x}\\right) {d\\mu } \\equiv \\mu \\left( A\\right) \\equiv P\\left( \\left\\lbrack {\\mathbf{X} \\in A}\\right\\rbrack \\right) \n\]\n\n\[ \n{\\int }_{\\Omega }\\left( {{\\mathcal{X}}_{A} \\circ \\mathbf...
Yes
Lemma 59.15.4 Let \( \mathbf{X} \equiv \left( {{X}_{1},\cdots ,{X}_{n}}\right) \) and \( Y \) be random variables defined on a probability space, \( \left( {\Omega ,\mathcal{F}, P}\right) \) such that \( {X}_{i}, i = 1,2,\cdots, n \) and \( Y \) have values in \( E \) a separable Banach space. Thus \( \mathbf{X} \) has...
Proof: Denote by \( {\lambda }_{\mathbf{X}} \) and \( {\lambda }_{Y} \) the distribution measures for \( \mathbf{X} \) and \( Y \) respectively. Since the random variables are independent, the distribution for the random variable, \( \left( {\mathbf{X}, Y}\right) \) mapping into \( {E}^{n + 1} \) is \( {\lambda }_{\mat...
Yes
Lemma 59.15.6 Let \( \\left\\{ {\\zeta }_{k}\\right\\} \) be a sequence of independent random variables having values in a separable real Banach space, \( E \) whose distributions are symmetric. Letting \( {S}_{k} \\equiv \\mathop{\\sum }\\limits_{{i = 1}}^{k}{\\zeta }_{i} \), suppose \( \\left\\{ {S}_{{n}_{k}}\\right\...
Proof: Let \( {n}_{k} \\leq l \\leq m \) . Then by Lemma 59.15.5\n\n\[ \nP\\left( \\left\\lbrack {\\mathop{\\sup }\\limits_{{{n}_{k} < l \\leq m}}\\begin{Vmatrix}{{S}_{l} - {S}_{{n}_{k}}}\\end{Vmatrix} > {2}^{-k}}\\right\\rbrack \\right) \\leq {2P}\\left( \\left\\lbrack {\\begin{Vmatrix}{{S}_{m} - {S}_{{n}_{k}}}\\end{V...
Yes
Theorem 59.16.2 For \( \mathbf{X} \sim {N}_{p}\left( {\mathbf{m},\sum }\right) ,\mathbf{m} = E\left( \mathbf{X}\right) \) and\n\n\[ \sum = E\left( {\left( {\mathbf{X} - \mathbf{m}}\right) {\left( \mathbf{X} - \mathbf{m}\right) }^{ * }}\right) . \]
Proof: Let \( R \) be an orthogonal transformation such that\n\n\[ {R\sum }{R}^{ * } = D = \operatorname{diag}\left( {{\sigma }_{1}^{2},\cdots ,{\sigma }_{p}^{2}}\right) . \]\n\nChanging the variable by \( \mathbf{x} - \mathbf{m} = {R}^{ * }\mathbf{y} \) ,\n\n\[ E\left( \mathbf{X}\right) \equiv {\int }_{{\mathbb{R}}^{p...
Yes
Corollary 59.16.5 Let \( \mathbf{X} = \left( {{X}_{1},\cdots ,{X}_{p}}\right) ,\mathbf{Y} = \left( {{Y}_{1},\cdots ,{Y}_{p}}\right) \) where each \( {X}_{i},{Y}_{i} \) is a real valued random variable. Suppose also that for every \( \mathbf{a} \in {\mathbb{R}}^{p},\mathbf{a} \cdot \mathbf{X} \) and \( \mathbf{a} \cdot ...
Proof: In the Proof of Theorem 59.16.4 the proof implies that the characteristic functions of \( \mathbf{a} \cdot \mathbf{X} \) and \( \mathbf{a} \cdot \mathbf{Y} \) are both of the form\n\n\[ \n{e}^{itm}{e}^{-\frac{1}{2}{\sigma }^{2}{t}^{2}}. \n\]\n\nThen as in the proof of that theorem, it must be the case that\n\n\[...
Yes
Lemma 59.18.3 If \( {\phi }_{{\mathbf{X}}_{n}}\left( \mathbf{t}\right) \rightarrow {\phi }_{\mathbf{X}}\left( \mathbf{t}\right) \) for all \( \mathbf{t} \), then whenever \( \psi \in \mathfrak{S} \) ,
Proof: Recall that if \( \mathbf{X} \) is any random vector, its characteristic function is given by\n\n\[ {\phi }_{\mathbf{X}}\left( \mathbf{y}\right) \equiv {\int }_{{\mathbb{R}}^{p}}{e}^{i\mathbf{y} \cdot \mathbf{x}}d{\lambda }_{\mathbf{X}}\left( x\right) \]\n\nAlso remember the inverse Fourier transform. Letting \(...
Yes
Lemma 59.18.4 If \( {\phi }_{{\mathbf{X}}_{n}}\left( \mathbf{t}\right) \rightarrow {\phi }_{\mathbf{X}}\left( \mathbf{t}\right) \), then if \( \psi \) is any bounded uniformly continuous function,
Proof: Let \( \varepsilon > 0 \) be given, let \( \psi \) be a bounded function in \( {C}^{\infty }\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{p}\right) \) . Now let \( \eta \in {C}_{c}^{\infty }\left( {Q}_{r}\right) \) where \( {Q}_{r} \equiv {\left\lbrack -r, r\right\rbrack }^{p} \) satisfy the additional requirement that \( \eta = 1 \) on...
Yes
Lemma 59.19.3 If \( {\phi }_{{\mu }_{n}}\left( \mathbf{t}\right) \rightarrow {\phi }_{\mu }\left( \mathbf{t}\right) \) for all \( \mathbf{t} \), then whenever \( \psi \in \mathfrak{S} \), the Schwartz class, \[ {\mu }_{n}\left( \psi \right) \equiv {\int }_{{\mathbb{R}}^{p}}\psi \left( \mathbf{y}\right) d{\mu }_{n}\left...
Proof: By definition, \[ {\phi }_{\mu }\left( \mathbf{y}\right) \equiv {\int }_{{\mathbb{R}}^{p}}{e}^{i\mathbf{y} \cdot \mathbf{x}}{d\mu }\left( x\right) \] Also remember the inverse Fourier transform. Letting \( \psi \in \mathfrak{S} \), the Schwartz class, \[ {F}^{-1}\left( \mu \right) \left( \psi \right) \equiv \mu ...
Yes
Lemma 59.19.4 If \( {\phi }_{{\mu }_{n}}\left( \mathbf{t}\right) \rightarrow {\phi }_{\mu }\left( \mathbf{t}\right) \) where \( \left\{ {\mu }_{n}\right\} \) and \( \mu \) are probability measures defined on the Borel sets of \( {\mathbb{R}}^{p} \), then if \( \psi \) is any bounded uniformly continuous function,
Proof: Let \( \varepsilon > 0 \) be given, let \( \psi \) be a bounded function in \( {C}^{\infty }\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{p}\right) \) . Now let \( \eta \in {C}_{c}^{\infty }\left( {Q}_{r}\right) \) where \( {Q}_{r} \equiv {\left\lbrack -r, r\right\rbrack }^{p} \) satisfy the additional requirement that \( \eta = 1 \) on...
Yes
Theorem 59.19.5 Let \( \Lambda = {\left\{ {\mu }_{n}\right\} }_{n = 1}^{\infty } \) be a sequence of probability measures defined on the Borel sets of \( {\mathbb{R}}^{p} \) . If \( \Lambda \) is tight then there exists a probability measure, \( \lambda \) and a subsequence of \( {\left\{ {\mu }_{n}\right\} }_{n = 1}^{...
Proof: By tightness, there exists an increasing sequence of compact sets, \( \left\{ {K}_{n}\right\} \) such that \[ \mu \left( {K}_{n}\right) > 1 - \frac{1}{n} \] for all \( \mu \in \Lambda \) . Now letting \( \mu \in \Lambda \) and \( \phi \in C\left( {K}_{n}\right) \) such that \( \parallel \phi {\parallel }_{\infty...
Yes
Theorem 59.19.7 Suppose \( \left\{ {\mu }_{n}\right\} \) is a sequence of probability measures defined on the Borel sets of \( {\mathbb{R}}^{p} \) and let \( \left\{ {\phi }_{{\mu }_{n}}\right\} \) denote the corresponding sequence of characteristic functions. If there exists \( \psi \) which is continuous at \( \mathb...
Proof: By Lemma 59.19.2 \( \left\{ {\mu }_{n}\right\} \) is tight. Therefore, there exists a subsequence \( \left\{ {\mu }_{{n}_{k}}\right\} \) converging weakly to a probability measure, \( \lambda \) . In particular,\n\n\[{\phi }_{\lambda }\left( \mathbf{t}\right) = \int {e}^{i\mathbf{t} \cdot \mathbf{x}}{d\lambda }\...
Yes
Lemma 59.21.1 Suppose \( M \) is an \( n \times n \) matrix. Suppose also that\n\n\[{\mathbf{\alpha }}^{ * }M\mathbf{\alpha } = 0\]\n\nfor all \( \mathbf{\alpha } \in {\mathbb{C}}^{n} \) . Then \( M = 0 \) .
Proof: Suppose \( \lambda \) is an eigenvalue for \( M \) and let \( \mathbf{\alpha } \) be an associated eigenvector.\n\n\[0 = {\mathbf{\alpha }}^{ * }M\mathbf{\alpha } = {\mathbf{\alpha }}^{ * }\lambda \mathbf{\alpha } = \lambda {\mathbf{\alpha }}^{ * }\mathbf{\alpha } = \lambda {\left| \mathbf{\alpha }\right| }^{2}\...
Yes
Lemma 59.21.3 If \( f \) is positive definite then whenever \( {\left\{ {\mathbf{t}}_{k}\right\} }_{k = 1}^{p} \) are \( p \) points in \( {\mathbb{R}}^{n},\left| {f\left( {{\mathbf{t}}_{j} - {\mathbf{t}}_{k}}\right) }\right| \leq f\left( \mathbf{0}\right) \) . In particular, for all \( \mathbf{t},\left| {f\left( \math...
Proof: Let \( F \) be the \( p \times p \) matrix such that\n\n\[ \n{F}_{kj} = f\left( {{\mathbf{t}}_{j} - {\mathbf{t}}_{k}}\right) \n\]\n\nThen 59.21.52 is of the form\n\n\[ \n{\mathbf{\alpha }}^{ * }F\mathbf{\alpha } = \left( {F\mathbf{\alpha },\mathbf{\alpha }}\right) \geq 0 \n\]\n\n\( \left( {59.21.53}\right) \)\n\...
Yes
Lemma 59.21.4 Let \( f \) be a positive definite function as defined above and let \( \mu \) be a finite Borel measure. Then \[ {\int }_{{\mathbb{R}}^{n}}{\int }_{{\mathbb{R}}^{n}}f\left( {\mathbf{x} - \mathbf{y}}\right) {d\mu }\left( x\right) {d\mu }\left( y\right) \geq 0. \]
Proof: By definition if \( {\left\{ {t}_{j}\right\} }_{j = 1}^{p} \subseteq {\mathbb{R}}^{n} \), and letting \( \mathbf{\alpha } = {\left( 1,\cdots ,1\right) }^{T} \in {\mathbb{R}}^{n} \) , \[ \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{j, k}}f\left( {{\mathbf{t}}_{j} - {\mathbf{t}}_{k}}\right) \geq 0 \] Therefore, integrating over each o...
Yes
Lemma 59.21.5 Let \( {\mu }_{t} \) be the measure defined on \( \mathcal{B}\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{n}\right) \) by\n\n\[ \n{\mu }_{t}\left( F\right) \equiv {\int }_{F}\frac{1}{{\left( \sqrt{2\pi t}\right) }^{n}}{e}^{-\frac{1}{2t}{\left| \mathbf{x}\right| }^{2}}{dx} \n\]\n\nfor \( t > 0 \) . Then \( {\mu }_{t} * {\mu }_{t}...
Proof: By Theorem 59.14.7,\n\n\[ \n{\phi }_{{\mu }_{t} * {\mu }_{t}}\left( \mathbf{s}\right) = {\phi }_{{\mu }_{t}}\left( \mathbf{s}\right) {\phi }_{{\mu }_{t}}\left( \mathbf{s}\right) = {\left( {e}^{-\frac{1}{2}t{\left| \mathbf{s}\right| }^{2}}\right) }^{2} = {e}^{-\frac{1}{2}\left( {2t}\right) {\left| \mathbf{s}\righ...
Yes
Theorem 59.21.7 Let \( \psi \) be positive definite, continuous at \( \mathbf{0} \), and \( \psi \left( \mathbf{0}\right) = 1 \) . Then there exists a unique Radon probability measure \( \mu \) such that \( \psi = {\phi }_{\mu } \) .
Proof: If \( \psi \in {L}^{1}\left( {{\mathbb{R}}^{n},{m}_{n}}\right) \), then the result follows from Lemma 59.21.6. By Lemma 59.21.3 \( \psi \) is bounded. Consider\n\n\[{\psi }_{t}\left( \mathbf{x}\right) \equiv \psi \left( \mathbf{x}\right) \frac{1}{{\left( 2\pi t\right) }^{n/2}}{e}^{-\frac{1}{2t}{\left| \mathbf{x}...
Yes
Lemma 60.1.2 The above is well defined. Also, if \( \mathcal{S} \subseteq \mathcal{F} \) then\n\n\[ E\left( {X \mid \mathcal{S}}\right) = E\left( {E\left( {X \mid \mathcal{F}}\right) \mid \mathcal{S}}\right) . \]\n\n\( \left( {60.1.1}\right) \)\n\nIf \( Z \) is bounded and measurable in \( \mathcal{S} \) then\n\n\[ {ZE...
Proof: Let a finite measure on \( \mathcal{S},\mu \) be given by\n\n\[ \mu \left( E\right) \equiv {\int }_{E}{fdP} \]\n\nThen \( \mu \ll P \) and so by the Radon Nikodym theorem, there exists a unique \( \mathcal{S} \) measurable function, \( E\left( {f \mid \mathcal{S}}\right) \) such that\n\n\[ {\int }_{E}{fdP} \equi...
Yes
Lemma 60.1.3 Let \( \\phi \) be a convex real valued function defined on an interval \( I \) . Then for each \( x \\in I \), there exists \( {a}_{x} \) such that for all \( t \\in I \) ,\n\n\[ \n\\phi \\left( t\\right) \\geq {a}_{x}\\left( {t - x}\\right) + \\phi \\left( x\\right) .\n\]\n\nAlso \( \\phi \) is continuou...
Proof: Let \( x \\in I \) and let \( t > x \) . Then by convexity of \( \\phi \) ,\n\n\[ \n\\frac{\\phi \\left( {x + \\lambda \\left( {t - x}\\right) }\\right) - \\phi \\left( x\\right) }{\\lambda \\left( {t - x}\\right) } \\leq \\frac{\\phi \\left( x\\right) \\left( {1 - \\lambda }\\right) + {\\lambda \\phi }\\left( t...
Yes
Lemma 60.1.4 Let \( I \) be an open interval on \( \mathbb{R} \) and let \( \phi \) be a convex function defined on \( I \) . Then there exists a sequence \( \left\{ \left( {{a}_{n},{b}_{n}}\right) \right\} \) such that \[ \phi \left( t\right) = \sup \left\{ {{a}_{n}t + {b}_{n}, n = 1,\cdots }\right\} . \]
Proof: Let \( {a}_{x} \) be as defined in the above lemma. Let \[ \psi \left( x\right) \equiv \sup \left\{ {{a}_{r}\left( {x - r}\right) + \phi \left( r\right) : r \in \mathbb{Q} \cap I}\right\} . \] Thus if \( {r}_{1} \in \mathbb{Q} \) , \[ \psi \left( {r}_{1}\right) \equiv \sup \left\{ {{a}_{r}\left( {{r}_{1} - r}\ri...
Yes
Lemma 60.1.5 If \( X \leq Y \), then \( E\left( {X \mid \mathcal{S}}\right) \leq E\left( {Y \mid \mathcal{S}}\right) \) a.e. Also\n\n\[ X \rightarrow E\left( {X \mid \mathcal{S}}\right) \] is linear.
Proof: Let \( A \in \mathcal{S} \). \n\n\[ {\int }_{A}E\left( {X \mid \mathcal{S}}\right) {dP} \equiv {\int }_{A}{XdP} \]\n\n\[ \leq {\int }_{A}{YdP} \equiv {\int }_{A}E\left( {Y \mid \mathcal{S}}\right) {dP} \]\n\nHence \( E\left( {X \mid \mathcal{S}}\right) \leq E\left( {Y \mid \mathcal{S}}\right) \) a.e. as claimed....
Yes
Theorem 60.1.6 (Jensen’s inequality) Let \( X\left( \omega \right) \in I \) and let \( \phi : I \rightarrow \mathbb{R} \) be convex. Suppose\n\n\[ E\left( \left| X\right| \right), E\left( \left| {\phi \left( X\right) }\right| \right) < \infty .\n\]\n\nThen\n\n\[ \phi \left( {E\left( {X \mid \mathcal{S}}\right) }\right)...
Proof: Let \( \phi \left( x\right) = \sup \left\{ {{a}_{n}x + {b}_{n}}\right\} \) . Letting \( A \in \mathcal{S \) ,\n\n\[ \frac{1}{P\left( A\right) }{\int }_{A}E\left( {X \mid \mathcal{S}}\right) {dP} = \frac{1}{P\left( A\right) }{\int }_{A}{XdP} \in I\text{ a.e. }\n\]\n\nwhenever \( P\left( A\right) \neq 0 \) . Hence...
Yes
Proposition 60.2.3 Let \( {\left\{ {X}_{i}\right\} }_{i = 1}^{n} \) be a finite sequence of real random variables defined on \( \Omega \) where \( \left( {\Omega ,\mathcal{S}, P}\right) \) is a probability space. Let \( {U}_{\left\lbrack a, b\right\rbrack }\left( \omega \right) \) denote the number of upcrossings of \(...
Proof: Let \( {X}_{0}\left( \omega \right) \equiv a + 1 \), let \( {Y}_{0}\left( \omega \right) \equiv 0 \), and let \( {Y}_{k}\left( \omega \right) \) remain 0 for \( k = 0,\cdots, l \) until \( {X}_{l}\left( \omega \right) \leq a \) . When this happens (if ever), \( {Y}_{l + 1}\left( \omega \right) \equiv 1 \) . Then...
Yes
Corollary 60.2.4 \( {U}_{\left\lbrack a, b\right\rbrack }\left( \omega \right) \leq \) the number of unbroken strings of ones in the sequence, \( \left\{ {{Y}_{k}\left( \omega \right) }\right\} \) there being at most one unbroken string of ones which produces no upcrossing.
\[ {Y}_{i}\left( \omega \right) = {\psi }_{i}\left( {\left\{ {X}_{j}\left( \omega \right) \right\} }_{j = 1}^{i - 1}\right) \] where \( {\psi }_{i} \) is some function of the past values of \( {X}_{j}\left( \omega \right) \).
No
Lemma 60.2.5 Let \( \phi \) be a convex and increasing function and suppose\n\n\[ \left\{ \left( {{X}_{n},{\mathcal{S}}_{n}}\right) \right\} \]\n\nis a submartingale. Then if \( E\left( \left| {\phi \left( {X}_{n}\right) }\right| \right) < \infty \), it follows\n\n\[ \left\{ \left( {\phi \left( {X}_{n}\right) ,{\mathca...
Proof: It is given that \( E\left( {{X}_{n + 1},{\mathcal{S}}_{n}}\right) \geq {X}_{n} \) and so\n\n\[ \phi \left( {X}_{n}\right) \leq \phi \left( {E\left( {{X}_{n + 1} \mid {\mathcal{S}}_{n}}\right) }\right) \leq E\left( {\phi \left( {X}_{n + 1}\right) \mid {\mathcal{S}}_{n}}\right) \]\n\nby Jensen's inequality.
Yes
Theorem 60.2.7 (submartingale convergence theorem) Let\n\n\\[ \n{\\left\\{ \\left( {X}_{i},{\\mathcal{S}}_{i}\\right) \\right\\} }_{i = 1}^{\\infty }\n\\]\n\nbe a submartingale with \\( K \\equiv \\sup E\\left( \\left| {X}_{n}\\right| \\right) < \\infty \\) . Then there exists a random variable, \\( X \\), such that \\...
Proof: Let \\( a, b \\in \\mathbb{Q} \\) and let \\( a < b \\) . Let \\( {U}_{\\left\\lbrack a, b\\right\\rbrack }^{n}\\left( \\omega \\right) \\) be the number of upcrossings of \\( {\\left\\{ {X}_{i}\\left( \\omega \\right) \\right\\} }_{i = 1}^{n} \\) . Then let\n\n\\[ \n{U}_{\\left\\lbrack a, b\\right\\rbrack }\\le...
Yes
Theorem 60.2.8 Let \( {\left\{ \left( {X}_{i},{\mathcal{S}}_{i}\right) \right\} }_{i = 1}^{\infty } \) be a submartingale. Then for \( \lambda > 0 \) , \[ P\left( \left\lbrack {\mathop{\max }\limits_{{1 \leq k \leq n}}{X}_{k} \geq \lambda }\right\rbrack \right) \leq \frac{1}{\lambda }{\int }_{\Omega }{X}_{n}^{ + }{dP} ...
Proof: Let \[ {A}_{1} \equiv \left\lbrack {{X}_{1} \geq \lambda }\right\rbrack ,{A}_{2} \equiv \left\lbrack {{X}_{2} \geq \lambda }\right\rbrack \smallsetminus {A}_{1}, \] \[ \cdots ,{A}_{k} \equiv \left\lbrack {{X}_{k} \geq \lambda }\right\rbrack \smallsetminus \left( {{ \cup }_{i = 1}^{k - 1}{A}_{i}}\right) \cdots \]...
Yes
Proposition 60.3.3 Let \( M \) be a martingale having values in some separable Banach space. Let \( \tau \) be a bounded stopping time and let \( \sigma \) be another stopping time. Then everything makes sense in the following formula and
\[ M\left( {\sigma \land \tau }\right) = E\left( {M\left( \tau \right) \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{\sigma }}\right) \text{ a.e. } \]
No
Lemma 60.4.1 In the situation of Definition 60.3.1, if \( S \leq T \) for two stopping times, \( S \) and \( T \), then \( {\mathcal{F}}_{S} \subseteq {\mathcal{F}}_{T} \) . Also \( {\mathcal{F}}_{T} \) is a \( \sigma \) algebra.
Proof: Let \( A \in {\mathcal{F}}_{S} \) . Then this means\n\n\[ A \cap \left\lbrack {S \leq n}\right\rbrack \in {\mathcal{F}}_{n}\text{for all}n\text{.} \]\n\nThen I claim that\n\n\[ A \cap \left\lbrack {T \leq n}\right\rbrack = { \cup }_{i = 1}^{n}\left( {A \cap \left\lbrack {S \leq i}\right\rbrack }\right) \cap \lef...
Yes
Lemma 60.4.2 Let \( T \) be a stopping time and let \( \left\{ {X}_{n}\right\} \) be a sequence of random variables such that \( {X}_{n} \) is \( {\mathcal{F}}_{n} \) measurable. Then \( {X}_{T}\left( \omega \right) \equiv {X}_{T\left( \omega \right) }\left( \omega \right) \) is also a random variable and it is measura...
Proof: I assume the \( {X}_{n} \) have values in some topological space and each is measurable because the inverse image of an open set is in \( {\mathcal{F}}_{n} \) . I need to show \( {X}_{T}^{-1}\left( U\right) \cap \left\lbrack {T \leq n}\right\rbrack \in {\mathcal{F}}_{n} \) for all \( n \) whenever \( U \) is ope...
Yes
Theorem 60.4.4 Let \( \left\{ {T}_{n}\right\} \) be an increasing bounded sequence of stopping times and let \( \left\{ {X}_{n}\right\} \) be a submartingale (martingale) adapted to the increasing sequence of \( \sigma \) algebras, \( \left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{n}\right\} \) . Then \( \left\{ {X}_{{T}_{n}}\right\} \) is a ...
Proof: This follows from Lemma 60.4.3
No
Example 60.4.5 Let \( \left\{ {X}_{n}\right\} \) be a sequence of real random variables such that \( {X}_{n} \) is \( {\mathcal{F}}_{n} \) measurable and let \( A \) be a Borel subset of \( \mathbb{R} \) . Let \( T\left( \omega \right) \) denote the first time \( {X}_{n}\left( \omega \right) \) is in \( A \) . Then \( ...
To see this is a stopping time,\n\n\[ \left\lbrack {T \leq l}\right\rbrack = { \cup }_{i = 1}^{l}{X}_{i}^{-1}\left( A\right) \in {\mathcal{F}}_{l} \]
Yes
Proposition 60.5.2 For \( \tau \) a stopping time, \( {\mathcal{F}}_{\tau } \) is a \( \sigma \) algebra and if \( Y\left( k\right) \) is \( {\mathcal{F}}_{k} \) measurable for all \( k \), then\n\n\[ \omega \rightarrow Y\left( {\tau \left( \omega \right) }\right) \]\n\nis \( {\mathcal{F}}_{\tau } \) measurable.
Proof: Let \( {A}_{n} \in {\mathcal{F}}_{\tau } \) . I need to show \( { \cup }_{n}{A}_{n} \in {\mathcal{F}}_{\tau } \) . In other words, I need to show that\n\n\[ { \cup }_{n}{A}_{n} \cap \left\lbrack {\tau \leq k}\right\rbrack \in {\mathcal{F}}_{k} \]\n\nThe left side equals\n\n\[ { \cup }_{n}\left( {{A}_{n} \cap \le...
Yes
Lemma 60.5.3 In the situation of Definition 60.5.1, let \( \sigma ,\tau \) be two stopping times. Then\n\n1. \( \tau \) is \( {\mathcal{F}}_{\tau } \) measurable\n\n2. \( {\mathcal{F}}_{\sigma } \cap \left\lbrack {\sigma \leq \tau }\right\rbrack \subseteq {\mathcal{F}}_{\sigma \land \tau } = {\mathcal{F}}_{\sigma } \ca...
Proof: Consider the first claim. I need to show that \( \left\lbrack {\tau \leq a}\right\rbrack \cap \left\lbrack {\tau \leq k}\right\rbrack \in {\mathcal{F}}_{k} \) for every \( k \) . However, this is easy if \( a \geq k \) because the left side is then \( \left\lbrack {\tau \leq k}\right\rbrack \) which is given to ...
Yes
Theorem 60.5.4 Let \( \{ M\left( k\right) \} \) be a real valued martingale with respect to the increasing sequence of \( \sigma \) algebras, \( \left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{k}\right\} \) and let \( \sigma ,\tau \) be two stopping times such that \( \tau \) is bounded. Then \( M\left( \tau \right) \) defined as\n\n\[ \omega ...
Proof: By Proposition 62.6.3 \( M\left( \tau \right) \) is \( {\mathcal{F}}_{\tau } \) measurable.\n\nNext note that since \( \tau \) is bounded by some \( l \) ,\n\n\[ {\int }_{\Omega }\parallel M\left( {\tau \left( \omega \right) }\right) \parallel {dP} \leq \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{i = 1}}^{l}{\int }_{\left\lbrack \t...
Yes
Lemma 60.5.5 Let \( \{ X\left( k\right) {\} }_{k = 0}^{\infty } \) be a submartingale adapted to the increasing sequence of \( \sigma \) algebras, \( \left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{k}\right\} \) . Then there exists a unique increasing process \( \{ A\left( k\right) {\} }_{k = 0}^{\infty } \) such that \( A\left( 0\right) = 0 \...
Proof: Define \( \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{k = 0}}^{{-1}} \neq 0 \) . First consider the uniqueness assertion. Suppose \( A \) is a process which does what is supposed to do.\n\n\[ \n\mathop{\sum }\limits_{{k = 0}}^{{n - 1}}E\left( {X\left( {k + 1}\right) - X\left( k\right) \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{k}}\right) = \mathop{\sum }...
Yes
Theorem 60.5.6 Let \( \{ X\left( k\right) \} \) be a submartingale with respect to the increasing sequence of \( \sigma \) algebras, \( \left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{k}\right\} \) and let \( \sigma ,\tau \) be two stopping times such that \( \tau \) is bounded. Then \( X\left( \tau \right) \) defined as\n\n\[ \omega \rightarr...
Proof: The claim about \( X\left( \tau \right) \) being integrable is the same as in Theorem 62.6.5. If \( \tau \leq l \) ,\n\n\[ E\left( \left| {X\left( {\tau \left( \omega \right) }\right) }\right| \right) = \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{i = 1}}^{l}{\int }_{\left\lbrack \tau = i\right\rbrack }\left| {X\left( i\right) }\rig...
Yes
Lemma 60.6.1 Let \( \{ X\left( k\right) \} \) be a nonnegative submartingale. Let\n\n\[ \n{U}_{M}^{\left\lbrack a, b\right\rbrack } \equiv \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{\varepsilon \rightarrow 0}}\mathop{\sum }\limits_{{k = 0}}^{n}\frac{X\left( {\tau }_{{2k} + 1}\right) - X\left( {\tau }_{2k}\right) }{\varepsilon + X\left( {...
Suppose that there exists a constant \( C \geq E\left( {X\left( M\right) }\right) \) for all \( M \) . That is, \( \{ X\left( k\right) \} \) is bounded in \( {L}^{1}\left( \Omega \right) \) . Then letting\n\n\[ \n{U}^{\left\lbrack a, b\right\rbrack } \equiv \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{M \rightarrow \infty }}{U}_{M}^{\left\...
Yes
Theorem 60.6.2 Let \( \{ X\left( k\right) \} \) be a submartingale which is bounded in \( {L}^{1}\left( \Omega \right) \), \[ \parallel X\left( k\right) {\parallel }_{{L}^{1}\left( \Omega \right) } \leq C \] Then there is a set of measure zero \( N \) such that for \( \omega \notin N,\mathop{\lim }\limits_{{k \rightarr...
Proof: Let \( a < b \) and consider the submartingale \( {\left( X\left( k\right) - a\right) }_{ + } \) . Let \( {U}^{\left\lbrack 0, b - a\right\rbrack } \) be the random variable of the above lemma which is associated with this submartingale. Thus \[ E\left( {U}^{\left\lbrack 0, b - a\right\rbrack }\right) \leq \frac...
Yes
Lemma 60.6.3 Let \( \{ X\left( k\right) \} \) be real valued and adapted to the increasing sequence of \( \sigma \) algebras \( \left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{k}\right\} \) . Let\n\n\[ T\left( \omega \right) \equiv \inf \{ k : X\left( k\right) \geq \lambda \}\]\n\nThen \( T \) is a stopping time. Similarly,\n\n\[ T\left( \omeg...
Proof: Is \( \left\lbrack {T \leq p}\right\rbrack \in {\mathcal{F}}_{p} \) for all \( p \) ?\n\n\[ \left\lbrack {T = p}\right\rbrack = \overset{ \in {\mathcal{F}}_{p - 1}}{\overbrace{{ \cap }_{i = 1}^{p - 1}\left\lbrack {X\left( i\right) < \lambda }\right\rbrack }} \cap \overset{ \in {\mathcal{F}}_{p}}{\overbrace{\left...
Yes
Theorem 60.6.4 Let \( \\left\\{ {X}_{k}\\right\\} \) be a real valued submartingale with respect to the \( \\sigma \) algebras \( \\left\\{ {\\mathcal{F}}_{k}\\right\\} \). Then for \( \\lambda > 0 \)\n\n\[ \n{\\lambda P}\\left( \\left\\lbrack {\\mathop{\\max }\\limits_{{1 \\leq k \\leq n}}{X}_{k} \\geq \\lambda }\\rig...
Proof: Let \( T\\left( \\omega \\right) \) be the first time \( {X}_{k}\\left( \\omega \\right) \) is \( \\geq \\lambda \) or if this does not happen for \( k \\leq n \), then \( T\\left( \\omega \\right) \\equiv n \). Thus\n\n\[ \nT\\left( \\omega \\right) \\equiv \\min \\left( {\\min \\left\\{ {k : {X}_{k}\\left( \\o...
Yes
Lemma 60.6.5 Let \( \left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{k}\right\} \) be an increasing sequence of \( \sigma \) algebras and let \( \{ X\left( k\right) \} \) be adapted to this sequence. Suppose that \( X\left( k\right) \) has all values in \( \left\lbrack {a, b}\right\rbrack \) and suppose \( \sigma \) is a stopping time with the ...
Proof: Let \( I \) be an interval and consider \( X\left( {k \vee \sigma }\right) \) . Is \( k \rightarrow X\left( {k \vee \sigma }\right) \) adapted? Let \( I \) be an interval. Is\n\n\[ A \equiv X{\left( k \vee \sigma \right) }^{-1}\left( I\right) \in {\mathcal{F}}_{k}? \]\n\nWe know that this set is in \( {\mathcal{...
Yes
Example 60.6.7 Let \( \\left\\{ {\\mathcal{F}}_{n}\\right\\} \) be an increasing sequence of \( \\sigma \) algebras contained in \( \\mathcal{F} \) where \( \\left( {\\Omega ,\\mathcal{F}, P}\\right) \) is a probability space and let \( \\left\\{ {X}_{n}\\right\\} \) be a sequence of real valued random variables such t...
It happens that the above gives an increasing sequence of stopping times.
No
Lemma 60.6.8 The above example gives an increasing sequence of stopping times.
Proof: You could consider the modified random variables\n\n\[ Y\left( k\right) \equiv \left( {X\left( k\right) \vee a}\right) \land b \]\n\nThen these new random variables stay in \( \left\lbrack {a, b}\right\rbrack \) and if you replace \( X\left( n\right) \) in the above with \( Y\left( n\right) \), you get the same ...
Yes
Theorem 60.6.9 Let \( \\left\\{ {X}_{n}\\right\\} \) be a real valued submartingale such that \( {X}_{n} \) is \( {\\mathcal{F}}_{n} \) measurable. Then letting \( {U}_{\\left\\lbrack a, b\\right\\rbrack }^{N} \) denote the upcrossings of \( \\left\\{ {X}_{n}\\right\\} \) from a to b for \( n \\leq N \)\n\n\[ E\\left( ...
Proof: The estimate 60.6.16 was based on the assumption that \( {X}_{0}\\left( \\omega \\right) \\leq a \) . If this is not so, modify \( {X}_{0} \) . Change it to \( \\min \\left( {{X}_{0}, a}\\right) \) . Then the inequality holds for the modified submartingale which has at least as many upcrossings. Therefore, the i...
No
Theorem 60.7.1 Let \( \\left\\{ {X}_{n}\\right\\} \) be a real valued submartingale such that\n\n\[ E\\left( \\left| {X}_{n}\\right| \\right) < M \]\n\nfor all \( n \) . Then there exists \( X \\in {L}^{1}\\left( {\\Omega ,\\mathcal{F}}\\right) \) such that \( {X}_{n}\\left( \\omega \\right) \) converges to \( X\\left(...
Proof: Let \( a < b \) be two rational numbers. From Theorem 60.6.9 it follows that for all \( N \),\n\n\[ {\\int }_{\\Omega }{U}_{\\left\\lbrack a, b\\right\\rbrack }^{N}{dP} \\leq \\frac{1}{b - a}E\\left( {\\left( {X}_{N} - a\\right) }^{ + }\\right) \]\n\n\[ \\leq \\frac{1}{b - a}\\left( {E\\left( \\left| {X}_{N}\\ri...
Yes
Theorem 60.7.2 Let \( \\left\\{ {X}_{k}\\right\\} \) be a sequence of independent real valued random variables such that \( E\\left( \\left| {X}_{k}\\right| \\right) < \\infty, E\\left( {X}_{k}\\right) = 0 \), and\n\n\[ \n\\mathop{\\sum }\\limits_{{k = 1}}^{\\infty }E\\left( {X}_{k}^{2}\\right) < \\infty \n\]\n\nThen \...
Proof: Let \( {\\mathcal{F}}_{n} \\equiv \\sigma \\left( {{X}_{1},\\cdots ,{X}_{n}}\\right) \) . Consider \( {S}_{n} \\equiv \\mathop{\\sum }\\limits_{{k = 1}}^{n}{X}_{k} \) .\n\n\[ \nE\\left( {{S}_{n + 1} \\mid {\\mathcal{F}}_{n}}\\right) = {S}_{n} + E\\left( {{X}_{n + 1} \\mid {\\mathcal{F}}_{n}}\\right) .\n\]\nLetti...
Yes
Theorem 60.7.5 Suppose \( \left\{ {\mathbf{X}}_{k}\right\} \) are independent random variables and \( E\left( \left| {\mathbf{X}}_{k}\right| \right) < \) \( \infty \) for each \( k \) and \( E\left( {\mathbf{X}}_{k}\right) = {\mathbf{m}}_{k} \) . Suppose also\n\n\[ \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{j = 1}}^{\infty }\frac{1}{{j}^...
Proof: Consider the sum\n\n\[ \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{j = 1}}^{\infty }\frac{{\mathbf{X}}_{j} - {\mathbf{m}}_{j}}{j} \]\n\nThis sum converges a.e. because of 60.7.19 and Theorem 60.7.4 applied to the random vectors \( \left\{ \frac{{\mathbf{X}}_{j} - {\mathbf{m}}_{j}}{j}\right\} \) . Therefore, from Lemma 59.7.4 it fol...
Yes
Theorem 60.8.3 Let \( {\left\{ {X}_{n},{\mathcal{F}}_{n}\right\} }_{n = 0}^{\infty } \) be a backwards submartingale as described above and suppose \( \mathop{\sup }\limits_{{n \geq 0}}E\left( \left| {X}_{n}\right| \right) < \infty \) . Then \( \left\{ {X}_{n}\right\} \) converges a.e. and in \( {L}^{1}\left( \Omega \r...
Proof: By the upcrossing lemma applied to the submartingale \( {\left\{ {X}_{k}\right\} }_{k = 0}^{N} \), the number of upcrossings (Downcrossings is probably a better term. They are upcross-ings as \( n \) gets smaller.) of the interval \( \left\lbrack {a, b}\right\rbrack \) satisfies the inequality\n\n\[ E\left( {U}_...
Yes
Lemma 60.9.1 Let \( \\left\\{ {X}_{n}\\right\\} \) be a sequence of independent random variables such that \( E\\left( \\left| {X}_{k}\\right| \\right) < \\infty \) for all \( k \) and let \( {S}_{n} \\equiv \\mathop{\\sum }\\limits_{{k = 1}}^{n}{X}_{k} \) . Then for \( k \\leq n \) ,
Proof: Note that \( {\\mathbb{R}}^{\\mathbb{N}} \) with the usual product topology has a countable basis. Here it is. Let \( {\\mathcal{B}}_{N} \) denote sets of the form \( \\mathop{\\prod }\\limits_{{i = 1}}^{\\infty }{D}_{i} \) where for \( i \\leq N,{D}_{i} \\in \\mathcal{B} \), a countable basis for \( \\mathbb{R}...
No
Lemma 60.9.2 Let \( \\left\\{ {X}_{k}\\right\\} \) be a sequence of independent identically distributed random variables such that \( E\\left( \\left| {X}_{k}\\right| \\right) < \\infty \) . Then letting \( {S}_{n} = \\mathop{\\sum }\\limits_{{k = 1}}^{n}{X}_{k} \), it follows that for \( k \\leq n \)\n\n\[ E\\left( {{...
Proof: It was shown in Lemma 60.9.1 the first equality holds. It remains to show the second. Letting \( A = {S}_{n}^{-1}\\left( B\\right) \) where \( B \) is Borel, it follows there exists \( {B}^{\\prime } \\subseteq {\\mathbb{R}}^{n} \) a Borel set such that\n\n\[ {S}_{n}^{-1}\\left( B\\right) = {\\left( {X}_{1},\\cd...
Yes
Theorem 60.9.3 Let \( \\left\\{ {X}_{k}\\right\\} \) be a sequence of independent identically distributed random variables such that \( E\\left( \\left| {X}_{k}\\right| \\right) < \\infty \) for all \( k \) . Letting \( m = E\\left( {X}_{k}\\right) \) ,\n\n\[ \n\\mathop{\\lim }\\limits_{{n \\rightarrow \\infty }}\\frac...
Proof: Consider the reverse submartingale \( \\left\\{ {E\\left( {{X}_{1} \\mid \\sigma \\left( {{S}_{n},{S}_{n + 1},\\cdots }\\right) }\\right) }\\right\\} \) . By Theorem 60.8.3, this converges a.e. and in \( {L}^{1}\\left( \\Omega \\right) \) to a random variable, \( {X}_{\\infty } \) . However, from Lemma 60.9.2, \...
Yes
Theorem 61.1.1 Let \( E \) be a separable Banach space and let \( X \in {L}^{1}\left( {\Omega ;E,\mathcal{F}}\right) \) where \( X \) is measurable with respect to \( \mathcal{F} \) and let \( \mathcal{G} \) be a \( \sigma \) algebra which is contained in \( \mathcal{F} \) . Then there exists a unique \( Z \in {L}^{1}\...
Proof: First consider uniqueness. Suppose \( {Z}^{\prime } \) is another in \( {L}^{1}\left( {\Omega ;E,\mathcal{G}}\right) \) which works. Consider a dense subset of \( E{\left\{ {a}_{n}\right\} }_{n = 1}^{\infty } \) . Then the balls \( {\left\{ B\left( {a}_{n},\frac{\begin{Vmatrix}{a}_{n}\end{Vmatrix}}{4}\right) \ri...
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Theorem 61.1.2 An E valued function, \( X \), is Bochner integrable if and only if \( X \) is strongly measurable and\n\n\[{\int }_{\Omega }\parallel X\left( \omega \right) \parallel {dP} < \infty\]
In this case there exists a sequence of simple functions \( \left\{ {X}_{n}\right\} \) satisfying\n\n\[{\int }_{\Omega }\begin{Vmatrix}{{X}_{n}\left( \omega \right) - {X}_{m}\left( \omega \right) }\end{Vmatrix}{dP} \rightarrow 0\text{ as }m, n \rightarrow \infty .\]\n\n\( \left( {61.1.2}\right) \)\n\n\( {X}_{n}\left( \...
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Lemma 61.2.3 Let \( \mu \) be a finite measure on \( \mathcal{B}\left( E\right) \), the Borel sets of \( E \), a separable complete metric space. Then if \( C \) is a closed set, \[ \mu \left( C\right) = \sup \{ \mu \left( K\right) : K \subseteq C\text{ and }K\text{ is compact. }\} \]
Proof: Let \( \left\{ {a}_{k}\right\} \) be a countable dense subset of \( C \) . Thus \( { \cup }_{k = 1}^{\infty }B\left( {{a}_{k},\frac{1}{n}}\right) \supseteq C \) . Therefore, there exists \( {m}_{n} \) such that \[ \mu \left( {C \smallsetminus { \cup }_{k = 1}^{{m}_{n}}\overline{B\left( {{a}_{k},\frac{1}{n}}\righ...
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Lemma 61.3.2 Let \( E \) be a separable complete metric space and let \( \Lambda \) be a set of Borel probability measures. Then \( \Lambda \) is tight if and only if for every \( \varepsilon > 0 \) and \( r > 0 \) there exists a finite collection of balls, \( {\left\{ B\left( {a}_{i}, r\right) \right\} }_{i = 1}^{m} \...
Proof: If \( \Lambda \) is tight, then there exists a compact set, \( {K}_{\varepsilon } \) such that\n\n\[ \mu \left( {K}_{\varepsilon }\right) > 1 - \varepsilon \]\n\nfor all \( \mu \in \Lambda \) . Then consider the open cover, \( \left\{ {B\left( {x, r}\right) : x \in {K}_{\varepsilon }}\right\} \) . Finitely many ...
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Theorem 61.3.3 Let \( H \) be a compact metric space. Then there exists a compact subset of \( \left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rbrack, K \) and a continuous function, \( \theta \) which maps \( K \) onto \( H \) .
Proof: Without loss of generality, it can be assumed \( H \) is an infinite set since otherwise the conclusion is trivial. You could pick finitely many points of \( \left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rbrack \) for \( K \) . Since \( H \) is compact, it is totally bounded. Therefore, there exists a 1 net for \( H{\left\{ {h}_{i}\...
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Corollary 61.3.4 Let \( H \) be a compact metric space and let \( C\left( H\right) \) denote the continuous functions defined on \( H \) with the usual norm,\n\n\[ \n\parallel f{\parallel }_{\infty } \equiv \max \{ \left| {f\left( x\right) }\right| : x \in H\}\n\]\n\nThen \( C\left( H\right) \) is separable.
Proof: The proof is by contradiction. Suppose \( C\left( H\right) \) is not separable. Let \( {\mathcal{H}}_{k} \) denote a maximal collection of functions of \( C\left( H\right) \) with the property that if \( f, g \in {\mathcal{H}}_{k} \), then \( \parallel f - g{\parallel }_{\infty } \geq 1/k \) . The existence of s...
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Lemma 61.4.1 Let \( {\mu }_{n} \) converge weakly to \( \mu \) and let \( U \) be an open set with \( \mu \left( {\partial U}\right) = 0 \). Then \[ \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{n \rightarrow \infty }}{\mu }_{n}\left( U\right) = \mu \left( U\right) \]
Proof: Let \( \left\{ {\psi }_{k}\right\} \) be a sequence of bounded continuous functions which decrease to \( {\mathcal{X}}_{\bar{U}} \). Also let \( \left\{ {\phi }_{k}\right\} \) be a sequence of bounded continuous functions which increase to \( {\mathcal{X}}_{U} \). For example, you could let \[ {\psi }_{k}\left( ...
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Lemma 61.5.1 Let \( \mathcal{A} \) denote sets of the form\n\n\[ \left\{ {{x}^{ * } : \theta \left( {x}^{ * }\right) \in U}\right\} \]\n\nwhere \( U \in \mathcal{E} \) . Then \( \mathcal{A} \) is an algebra and \( \sigma \left( \mathcal{A}\right) = \sigma \left( X\right) \) . Also\n\n\[ \left\{ {{\theta }^{-1}\left( U\...
Proof: Since \( \mathcal{E} \) is an algebra it is clear \( \mathcal{A} \) is also an algebra. Also, \( \mathcal{A} \subseteq \sigma \left( X\right) \) because you could let \( U \) have only one \( {A}_{y} \) not equal to \( \mathbb{R} \) and all the others equal to \( \mathbb{R} \) and then\n\n\[ \left\{ {{x}^{ * } :...
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Theorem 61.5.4 Let \( X \) be a real vector space and let \( {X}^{ * } \) be the space of linear functionals defined on \( X \) . Also let \( \psi : X \rightarrow \mathbb{C} \) . Then \( \psi \) is a characteristic function if and only if \( \psi \left( 0\right) = 1 \) and \( \psi \) is pseudo continuous at 0 .
Proof: Suppose first \( \psi \) is a characteristic function as just described. I need to show it is positive definite and pseudo continuous. It is obvious \( \psi \left( 0\right) = 1 \) in this case. Also\n\n\[ \psi \left( {\mathop{\sum }\limits_{k}{a}_{k}{x}_{k}}\right) = {\int }_{{X}^{ * }}\exp \left( {i{x}^{ * }\le...
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Lemma 61.6.7 Let \( \mu \) be a probability measure on \( \mathcal{B}\left( E\right) \), the Borel subsets of a separable real Banach space. Then there exists a probability space \( \left( {\Omega ,\mathcal{F}, P}\right) \) and two independent random variables, \( X, Y \) mapping \( \Omega \) to \( E \) such that \( \m...
Proof: First note that if \( A, B \) are Borel sets of \( E \) then \( A \times B \) is a Borel set in \( E \times E \) where the norm on \( E \times E \) is given by\n\n\[ \parallel \left( {x, y}\right) \parallel \equiv \max \left( {\parallel x\parallel ,\parallel y\parallel }\right) .\n\]\n\nThis can be proved by let...
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Theorem 61.6.9 Let \( \mathbf{X} \) and \( \mathbf{Y} \) be random vectors having values in \( {\mathbb{R}}^{p} \) and \( {\mathbb{R}}^{q} \) respectively. Suppose also that \( \left( {\mathbf{X},\mathbf{Y}}\right) \) is multivariate normally distributed and\n\n\[ E\left( {\left( {\mathbf{X} - E\left( \mathbf{X}\right)...
Proof: Let \( \mathbf{Z} = \left( {\mathbf{X},\mathbf{Y}}\right), m = p + q \) . Then by hypothesis, the characteristic function of \( \mathbf{Z} \) is of the form\n\n\[ E\left( {e}^{i\mathbf{t} \cdot \mathbf{Z}}\right) = {e}^{i\mathbf{t} \cdot \mathbf{m}}{e}^{-\frac{1}{2}i{\mathbf{t}}^{ * }\sum \mathbf{t}} \]\n\nwhere...
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Lemma 61.7.3 Let \( \mu = \mathcal{L}\left( X\right) \) where \( X \) is a random variable defined on a probability space, \( \left( {\Omega ,\mathcal{F}, P}\right) \) which has values in \( E \), a Banach space. Suppose also that for all \( \phi \in {E}^{\prime },\phi \circ X \) is normally distributed. Then \( \mu \)...
Proof: First suppose \( \mu \) is a Gaussian measure and \( X \) is a random variable such that \( \mathcal{L}\left( X\right) = \mu \) . Then if \( F \) is a Borel set in \( \mathbb{R} \), and \( h \in {E}^{\prime } \n\n\[ \nP\left( {{\left( h \circ X\right) }^{-1}\left( F\right) }\right) = P\left( {{X}^{-1}\left( {{h}...
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Lemma 61.8.2 There exists a sequence, \( {\left\{ {\xi }_{k}\right\} }_{k = 1}^{\infty } \) of random variables such that\n\n\[ \mathcal{L}\left( {\xi }_{k}\right) = N\left( {0,1}\right) \]\n\nand \( {\left\{ {\xi }_{k}\right\} }_{k = 1}^{\infty } \) is independent.
Proof: Let \( {i}_{1} < {i}_{2}\cdots < {i}_{n} \) be positive integers and define\n\n\[ {\mu }_{{i}_{1}\cdots {i}_{n}}\left( {{F}_{1} \times \cdots \times {F}_{n}}\right) \equiv \frac{1}{{\left( \sqrt{2\pi }\right) }^{n}}{\int }_{{F}_{1} \times \cdots \times {F}_{n}}{e}^{-{\left| \mathbf{x}\right| }^{2}/2}{dx}. \]\n\n...
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Theorem 61.8.5 A measure \( \mu \) on \( \mathcal{B}\left( U\right) \) is Gaussian if and only if there exists \( m \in U \) and \( Q \in \mathcal{L}\left( U\right) \) such that \( Q \) is nonnegative symmetric with finite trace, \[ \mathop{\sum }\limits_{k}\left( {Q{e}_{k},{e}_{k}}\right) < \infty \] for a complete or...
Proof: First of all suppose 61.8.32 holds. Why is \( \mu \) Gaussian? Consider the random variable \( {u}^{\prime } \) defined by \( {u}^{\prime }\left( v\right) \equiv \left( {v, u}\right) \) . Why is \( {\lambda }_{{u}^{\prime }} \) a Gaussian measure on \( \mathbb{R} \) ? By the definition in 61.8.31, \[ {\int }_{U}...
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Lemma 61.8.6 Let \( U \) be a real separable Hilbert space and let \( \mu \) be a probability measure defined on \( \mathcal{B}\left( U\right) \). Suppose for some positive integer, \( k \)\n\n\[{\int }_{U}{\left| \left( x, z\right) \right| }^{k}{d\mu }\left( x\right) < \infty\n\]\n\nfor all \( z \in U \). Then the tra...
Proof: I need to show that for each \( \mathbf{h} \in {U}^{k} \), the integral in 61.8.36 exists. From this it is obvious it is \( k \) - linear, meaning linear in each argument. Then it is shown it is continuous.\n\nFirst note\n\n\[\n\left| {\left( {{h}_{1}, x}\right) \cdots \left( {{h}_{k}, x}\right) }\right| \leq {\...
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Proposition 61.9.2 The cylinder sets form an algebra of sets.
Proof: First note the complement of a cylinder set is a cylinder set.\n\n\[ \n{\left\{ x \in H : \left( \left( x,{e}_{1}\right) ,\cdots ,\left( x,{e}_{n}\right) \right) \in F\right\} }^{C} \n\]\n\n\[ \n= \left\{ {x \in H : \left( {\left( {x,{e}_{1}}\right) ,\cdots ,\left( {x,{e}_{n}}\right) }\right) \in {F}^{C}}\right\...
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Lemma 61.9.4 \( \sigma \left( \mathcal{C}\right) \), the smallest \( \sigma \) algebra containing \( \mathcal{C} \), contains the Borel sets of \( H,\mathcal{B}\left( H\right) \) .
Proof: It follows from the definition of these cylinder sets that if \( {f}_{i}\left( x\right) \equiv \left( {x,{e}_{i}}\right) \) , so that \( {f}_{i} \in {H}^{\prime } \), then with respect to \( \sigma \left( \mathcal{C}\right) \), each \( {f}_{i} \) is measurable. It follows that every linear combination of the \( ...
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Proposition 61.9.7 For \( Q = I,\nu \) cannot be extended to a measure defined on \( \sigma \left( \mathcal{C}\right) \) whenever \( H \) is infinite dimensional.
Proof: Let \( \left\{ {e}_{n}\right\} \) be a complete orthonormal set of vectors in \( H \) . Then first note that \( H \) is a cylinder set.\n\n\[ H = \left\{ {x \in H : \left( {x,{e}_{1}}\right) \in \mathbb{R}}\right\} \]\n\nand so\n\n\[ \nu \left( H\right) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi }}{\int }_{\mathbb{R}}{e}^{-\frac{1}{...
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Proposition 61.9.8 \( \mu \) is finitely additive on \( \mathcal{C} \) the algebra of cylinder sets.
Proof: Let\n\n\[ A \equiv \left\{ {x \in H : \left( {\left( {x,{e}_{1}}\right) ,\cdots ,\left( {x,{e}_{n}}\right) }\right) \in E}\right\} ,\n\]\n\n\[ B \equiv \left\{ {x \in H : \left( {\left( {x,{f}_{1}}\right) ,\cdots ,\left( {x,{f}_{m}}\right) }\right) \in F}\right\} \]\n\nbe two disjoint cylinder sets. Then writing...
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Lemma 61.9.13 There exists a countably additive Gaussian measure, \( \lambda \) defined on \( \mathcal{B}\left( E\right) \) . This measure is the law of the random variable,\n\n\[ X\left( \omega \right) \equiv \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{k = 1}}^{\infty }{\xi }_{k}\left( \omega \right) {e}_{k} \]\n\nwhere \( \left\{ {\xi }...
Proof: Observe that \( \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{k = 1}}^{\infty }\frac{1}{{k}^{2}}\left( {k{e}_{k}}\right) \otimes \left( {k{e}_{k}}\right) \) is a nuclear operator on the Hilbert space, \( E \) . Letting \( \left\{ {\xi }_{k}\right\} \) be a sequence of independent random variables each normally distributed with mean 0...
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Corollary 61.9.15 Let \( \\left( {i, H, B}\\right) \) be an abstract Wiener space. Then there exists a Gaussian measure on the Borel sets of \( B \) . This Gaussian measure equals \( \\mathcal{L}\\left( S\\right) \) where \( S\\left( \\omega \\right) \) is the a.e. limit of a subsequence of the sequence of partial sums...
\[ {S}_{{p}_{n}}\\left( \\omega \\right) \\equiv \\mathop{\\sum }\\limits_{{k = 1}}^{{p}_{n}}{\\xi }_{k}\\left( \\omega \\right) {e}_{k} \] for \( \\left\\{ {\\xi }_{k}\\right\\} \) a sequence of independent random variables which are normal with mean 0 and variance 1 which are defined on a probability space, \( \\left...
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Theorem 61.10.1 Let \( \\left( {i, H, B}\\right) \) be an abstract Wiener space and \( \\left\\{ {e}_{k}\\right\\} \) is a complete orthonormal sequence in \( H \) . Then there exists a Gaussian measure on the Borel sets of \( B \) . This Gaussian measure equals \( \\mathcal{L}\\left( S\\right) \) where \( S\\left( \\o...
Proof: By Corollary 61.9.15 there is a subsequence, \( \\left\\{ {S}_{{p}_{n}}\\right\\} \) of these partial sums which converge pointwise a.e. to \( S\\left( \\omega \\right) \) . However, this corollary also states that \[ P\\left( \\left\\{ {\\omega \\in \\Omega : \\begin{Vmatrix}{{S}_{k}\\left( \\omega \\right) - {...
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Lemma 61.11.2 Let \( E \) be a separable Banach space. Then there exists a sequence \( \left\{ {e}_{n}\right\} \) of points of \( E \) such that whenever \( \left| \mathbf{\beta }\right| \leq 1 \) for \( \mathbf{\beta } \in {\mathbb{F}}^{n} \) , \[ \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{k = 1}}^{n}{\beta }_{k}{e}_{k} \in B\left( {0,1...
Proof: By Lemma 61.11.1, let \( \left\{ {{z}_{1},\cdots ,{z}_{n}}\right\} \) be a basis for \( {F}_{n} \) where \( { \cup }_{n = 1}^{\infty }{F}_{n} \) is dense in \( E \) . Then let \( {\alpha }_{1} \) be such that \( {e}_{1} \equiv {\alpha }_{1}{z}_{1} \in B\left( {0,1}\right) \) . Thus \( {\beta }_{1}{e}_{1} \in B\l...
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Corollary 61.11.4 Let \( E \) be any real separable Banach space. Then there exists a sequence, \( \left\{ {e}_{k}\right\} \subseteq E \) such that for any \( \left\{ {\xi }_{k}\right\} \) a sequence of independent random variables such that \( \mathcal{L}\left( {\xi }_{k}\right) = N\left( {0,1}\right) \), it follows\n...
Proof: From the proof of Theorem 61.11.3 a basis for \( H \) is \( \left\{ {{\lambda }_{k}{e}_{k}}\right\} \) . Therefore, by Theorem 61.10.1, if \( \left\{ {\xi }_{k}\right\} \) is a sequence of independent \( N\left( {0,1}\right) \) random variables, then \( \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{k = 1}}^{\infty }{\xi }_{k}\left( \...
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Lemma 62.1.1 A stochastically continuous process on \( \left\lbrack {a, b}\right\rbrack \equiv I \) is uniformly stochastically continuous on \( \left\lbrack {a, b}\right\rbrack \equiv I \) .
Proof: If this is not so, there exists \( \varepsilon ,\delta > 0 \) and points of \( I,{s}_{n},{t}_{n} \) such that even though\n\n\[ \left| {{t}_{n} - {s}_{n}}\right| < \frac{1}{n} \]\n\n\[ P\left( \left\lbrack {\begin{Vmatrix}{X\left( {s}_{n}\right) - X\left( {t}_{n}\right) }\end{Vmatrix} \geq \varepsilon }\right\rb...
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Proposition 62.1.2 Let \( X \) be a stochastically continuous process defined on a closed interval, \( I \equiv \left\lbrack {a, b}\right\rbrack \) . Then there exists a measurable version of \( X \) .
Proof: By Lemma 62.1.1 \( X \) is uniformly stochastically continuous and so there exists a sequence of positive numbers, \( \left\{ {\rho }_{n}\right\} \) such that if \( \left| {s - t}\right| < {\rho }_{n} \), then\n\n\[ P\left( \left\lbrack {\parallel X\left( t\right) - X\left( s\right) \parallel \geq \frac{1}{{2}^{...
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Lemma 62.1.3 Let \( D \) be a dense subset of an interval, \( I = \left\lbrack {0, T}\right\rbrack \) and suppose \( X : D \rightarrow E \) satisfies\n\n\[ \begin{Vmatrix}{X\left( d\right) - X\left( {d}^{\prime }\right) }\end{Vmatrix} \leq C{\left| d - {d}^{\prime }\right| }^{\gamma } \]\n\nfor all \( {d}^{\prime }, d ...
Proof: Let \( t \in I \) and let \( {d}_{k} \rightarrow t \) where \( {d}_{k} \in D \) . Then \( \left\{ {X\left( {d}_{k}\right) }\right\} \) is a Cauchy sequence because \( \begin{Vmatrix}{X\left( {d}_{k}\right) - X\left( {d}_{m}\right) }\end{Vmatrix} \leq C{\left| {d}_{k} - {d}_{m}\right| }^{\gamma } \) . Therefore, ...
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