State the first and second Borel-Cantelli Lemmas and the Kolmogorov 0-1 law.
Let (Xn)n⩾1 be a sequence of independent random variables with distribution given
by
P(Xn=n)=n1=1−P(Xn=0)
and set Sn=∑i=1nXi.
(a) Show that there exist constants 0⩽c1⩽c2⩽∞ such that liminfn(Sn/n)=c1, almost surely and limsupn(Sn/n)=c2 almost surely.
(b) Let Yk=∑i=k+12kXi and Y~k=∑i=1kZi(k), where (Zi(k))i=1k are independent with
P(Zi(k)=k)=2k1=1−P(Zi(k)=0),1⩽i⩽k,
and suppose that α∈Z+.
Use the fact that P(Yk⩾αk)⩾P(Y~k⩾αk) to show that there exists pα>0 such that P(Yk⩾αk)⩾pα for all sufficiently large k.
[You may use the Poisson approximation to the binomial distribution without proof.]
By considering a suitable subsequence of (Yk), or otherwise, show that c2=∞.
(c) Show that c1⩽1. Consider an appropriately chosen sequence of random times Ti, with 2Ti⩽Ti+1, for which (STi/Ti)⩽3c1/2. Using the fact that the random variables (YTi) are independent, and by considering the events {YTi=0}, or otherwise, show that c1=0.