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Probability and Measure
Part II, 2020

(a) State and prove the strong law of large numbers for sequences of i.i.d. random variables with a finite moment of order 4 .

(b) Let (Xk)k1\left(X_{k}\right)_{k \geqslant 1} be a sequence of independent random variables such that

P(Xk=1)=P(Xk=1)=12\mathbb{P}\left(X_{k}=1\right)=\mathbb{P}\left(X_{k}=-1\right)=\frac{1}{2}

Let (ak)k1\left(a_{k}\right)_{k \geqslant 1} be a sequence of real numbers such that

k1ak2<\sum_{k \geqslant 1} a_{k}^{2}<\infty

Set

Sn:=k=1nakXkS_{n}:=\sum_{k=1}^{n} a_{k} X_{k}

(i) Show that SnS_{n} converges in L2\mathbb{L}^{2} to a random variable SS as nn \rightarrow \infty. Does it converge in L1\mathbb{L}^{1} ? Does it converge in law?

(ii) Show that S431/4S2\|S\|_{4} \leqslant 3^{1 / 4}\|S\|_{2}.

(iii) Let (Yk)k1\left(Y_{k}\right)_{k \geqslant 1} be a sequence of i.i.d. standard Gaussian random variables, i.e. each YkY_{k} is distributed as N(0,1)\mathcal{N}(0,1). Show that then k=1nakYk\sum_{k=1}^{n} a_{k} Y_{k} converges in law as nn \rightarrow \infty to a random variable and determine the law of the limit.