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Subsequence principles for vector-valued random variables

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

D. J. H. Garling
D. J. H. Garling
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St John's College, Cambridge
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1. Introduction. Révész(8) has shown that if (fn) is a sequence of random variables, bounded in L2, there exists a subsequence (fnk) and a random variable f in L2 such that converges almost surely whenever . Komlós(5) has shown that if (fn) is a sequence of random variables, bounded in L1, then there is a subsequence (A*) with the property that the Cesàro averages of any subsequence converge almost surely. Subsequently Chatterji(2) showed that if (fn) is bounded in LP (where 0 < p ≤ 2) then there is a subsequence (gk) = (fnk) and f in Lp such that

almost surely for every sub-subsequence. All of these results are examples of subsequence principles: a sequence of random variables, satisfying an appropriate moment condition, has a subsequence which satisfies some property enjoyed by sequences of independent identically distributed random variables. Recently Aldous(1), using tightness arguments, has shown that for a general class of properties such a subsequence principle holds: in particular, the results listed above are all special cases of Aldous' principal result.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 86 , Issue 2 , September 1979 , pp. 301 - 312
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1979

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