2.II.25J

Probability and Measure
Part II, 2007

(a) State and prove the first Borel-Cantelli lemma. State the second Borel-Cantelli lemma.

(b) Let X1,X2,X_{1}, X_{2}, \ldots be a sequence of independent random variables that converges in probability to the limit XX. Show that XX is almost surely constant.

A sequence X1,X2,X_{1}, X_{2}, \ldots of random variables is said to be completely convergent to XX if

nNP(An(ϵ))< for all ϵ>0, where An(ϵ)={XnX>ϵ}\sum_{n \in \mathbb{N}} \mathbb{P}\left(A_{n}(\epsilon)\right)<\infty \quad \text { for all } \epsilon>0, \quad \text { where } A_{n}(\epsilon)=\left\{\left|X_{n}-X\right|>\epsilon\right\}

(c) Show that complete convergence implies almost sure convergence.

(d) Show that, for sequences of independent random variables, almost sure convergence also implies complete convergence.

(e) Find a sequence of (dependent) random variables that converges almost surely but does not converge completely.