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On Complete Convergence for Weighted Sums of
-Mixing Random Variables
Journal of Inequalities and Applications volume 2010, Article number: 372390 (2010)
Abstract
Some results on complete convergence for weighted sums are presented, where
,
is a sequence of
-mixing random variables and
is an array of constants. They generalize the corresponding results for
sequence to the case of
-mixing sequence.
1. Introduction
Let ,
be a sequence of random variables defined on a fixed probability space
. Let
and
be positive integers. Write
,
. Given
-algebras
in
, let
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Define the -mixing coefficients by
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Definition 1.1.
A random variable sequence ,
is said to be a
-mixing random variable sequence if
as
.
-mixing random variables were introduced by Dobrushin [1] and many applications have been found. See, for example, Dobrushin [1], Utev [2], and Chen [3] for central limit theorem, Herrndorf [4] and Peligrad [5] for weak invariance principle, Sen [6, 7] for weak convergence of empirical processes, Shao [8] for almost sure invariance principles, Hu and Wang [9] for large deviations, and so forth. When these are compared with the corresponding results of independent random variable sequences, there still remains much to be desired.
Throughout the paper, let be the indicator function of the set
. We assume that
is a positive increasing function on
satisfying
as
and
is the inverse function of
. Since
, it follows that
. For easy notation, we let
and
.
denotes that there exists a positive constant
such that
.
denotes a positive constant which may be different in various places.
Let ,
be a sequence of
random variables and let
,
be an array of constants. The almost sure limiting behavior of weighted sums
was studied by many authors; see, for example, Choi and Sung [10], Cuzick [11], Wu [12], and Sung [13, 14], and so forth.
The main purpose of this paper is to extend the complete convergence for weighted sums of
random variables to the case of
-mixing random variables.
Definition 1.2.
A sequence of random variables is said to be stochastically dominated by a random variable
if there exists a positive constant
, such that
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for all and
.
Definition 1.3.
A double array ,
,
of real numbers is said to be a Toeplitz array if
for each
and
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for all , where
is a positive constant.
Lemma 1.4.
Let ,
be a sequence of random variables which is stochastically dominated by a random variable
. For any
and
, the following statement holds:
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where is a positive constant.
Lemma 1.5 (cf. [15, Lemma ]).
Let ,
be a sequence of
-mixing random variables. Let
,
,
,
, and
. Then
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Lemma 1.6 (cf. [8, Lemma 2.2]).
Let ,
be a
-mixing sequence. Put
. Suppose that there exists an array
of positive numbers such that
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Then for every , there exists a constant
depending only on
and
such that
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for every and
.
Lemma 1.7.
Let ,
be a sequence of
-mixing random variables satisfying
.
. Assume that
and
for each
. Then there exists a constant
depending only on
and
such that
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for every and
. In particular, one has
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for every .
Proof.
By Lemma 1.5, we can see that
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which implies (1.7). By Lemma 1.6, we can get the desired result (1.9) immediately. The proof is complete.
Lemma 1.8.
Assume that the inverse function of
satisfies
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If , then
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Proof.
The proof is similar to that of Lemma by Sung [14]. So we omit it.
2. Main Results and Their Proofs
Theorem 2.1.
Let ,
be a sequence of identically distributed
-mixing random variables satisfying
,
,
, and
. Assume that the inverse function
of
satisfies (1.12). Let
,
,
be an array of constants such that
(i);
(ii) for some
.
Then for any ,
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Proof.
For each , denote
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It is easy to check that
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Therefore
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Firstly, we will show that
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It follows from Lemma 1.8 and Kronecker's lemma that
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By , condition (i), (2.6), and
, we can see that
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which implies (2.5). By (2.4) and (2.5), we can see that, for sufficiently large ,
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To prove (2.1), it suffices to show that
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By Markov's inequality, Lemma 1.7, , and condition (ii), we have
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It follows from that
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We complete the proof of the theorem.
Theorem 2.2.
Let ,
be a sequence of
-mixing random variables satisfying
and let
,
,
be an array of real numbers. Let
,
be an increasing sequence of positive integers and let
,
be a sequence of positive real numbers. If for some
,
, and for any
, the following conditions are satisfied:
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then
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Proof.
Note that if the series is convergent, then (2.15) holds. Therefore, we will consider only such sequences
,
for which the series
is divergent.
Let
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Therefore
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Using the inequality and Jensen's inequality, we can estimate
in the following way:
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By (2.17), (2.18), and Lemma 1.7, we can get
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Therefore, we can conclude that (2.15) holds by (2.12), (2.13), (2.14), and (2.19).
Theorem 2.3.
Let and let
,
be a sequence of
-mixing random variables satisfying
,
, and
for
. Let
,
,
be an array of real numbers satisfying the following condition:
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for some and
. Then for any
and
,
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Proof.
Take ,
, and
in Theorem 2.2. By (2.20) we have
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following from . By the assumption
for
and (2.20) we get
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following from and
. We get the desired result by Theorem 2.2 immediately. The proof is completed.
Theorem 2.4.
Let and let
,
be a sequence of
-mixing random variables satisfying
,
, and
for
. Assume that the random variables are stochastically dominated by a random variable
such that
and let
,
,
be an array of real numbers satisfying the following condition:
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for some and
. Then for any
and
, (2.21) holds.
Proof.
The proof is similar to that of Theorem 2.3. We only need to note that
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for each .
Theorem 2.5.
Let ,
be a sequence of
-mixing random variables satisfying
and let
,
,
be a Toeplitz array. Assume that the random variables are stochastically dominated by a random variable
. If for some
and
,
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where , then for any
,
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Proof.
Take ,
for
and
in Theorem 2.2. Then we can see that (2.12) and (2.13) are satisfied. In fact, by (1.4) and (2.26) we have
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and by Lemma 1.4, (1.5), and (2.26) we have
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In order to prove that (2.14) holds, we should consider the following two cases.
In the case , by Lemma 1.4, (1.5), (2.26), and
inequality, we have
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In the case , we can get
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To complete the proof of the theorem, we only need to prove
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Indeed, by Lemma 1.4, it follows that
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Thus we get the desired result.
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The authors are most grateful to the Editor Andrei I. Volodin and anonymous referee for the careful reading of the manuscript and valuable suggestions which helped in significantly improving an earlier version of this paper. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10871001, 60803059), Provincial Natural Science Research Project of Anhui Colleges (KJ2010A005), Talents Youth Fund of Anhui Province Universities (2010SQRL016ZD), and Youth Science Research Fund of Anhui University (2009QN011A).
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Xuejun, W., Shuhe, H., Wenzhi, Y. et al. On Complete Convergence for Weighted Sums of -Mixing Random Variables.
J Inequal Appl 2010, 372390 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1155/2010/372390
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