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(a) State the thinning and superposition properties of a Poisson process on . Prove the superposition property.
(b) A bi-infinite Poisson process with is a process with independent and stationary increments over . Moreover, for all , the increment has the Poisson distribution with parameter . Prove that such a process exists.
(c) Let be a bi-infinite Poisson process on of intensity . We identify it with the set of points of discontinuity of , i.e., . Show that if we shift all the points of by the same constant , then the resulting process is also a Poisson process of intensity .
Now suppose we shift every point of by or with equal probability. Show that the final collection of points is still a Poisson process of intensity . [You may assume the thinning and superposition properties for the bi-infinite Poisson process.]