A very simple but useful almost sure convergence theorem of probability is given.
Let (Ω, F , P ) be a probability space and X n := X n (ω), (n = 1, 2, 3, • • •) be its random variables with X n (ω) ≥ 0 for ∀ω ∈ Ω. E[X] := E[X(ω)] := Ω X(ω)dP (ω) denotes the expectation value(or mean) of the random variable X = X(ω). We put {K m } ∞ m=1 to be a natural number sequence with K m < K m+1 and K m → +∞ (as m → +∞). Then we have
then we have
proof The conclusion of the theorem is equivalent to
Firstly we assume our denying of this conclusion, that is, we assume
which will lead to a contradiction later.
(4) is equivalent to P {A} > 0 with
We put the followings:
Then we have trivially
which shows the existence of
and
Next we divide {m j } ∞ j=1 into {m j (k)} ∞ j=1 ’s as follows:
with
where ♯A denotes the number of elements of the set A.
We also put
Then we also have trivially
which leads to the existence of
and
From ( 20), it follows that when N tends to ∞
which leads to ∃l N such that P {D (l) } > 0 (22) because of P {A} > 0 and ♯Λ = ♯N. We put
Because of the assumption of the theorem (1), that is,
there exists a natural number N such that
we have
with sufficiently large N. From (25), • • • ,(31), we have a contradiction:
Therefore we cannot have (4) or (5) which means the conclusion of the theorem:(2) or (3). This completes the proof.
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