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On the convergence rates in the asymmetric SLLN for independent and nonidentically distributed random fields

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to obtain the convergence rates in strong laws of large numbers for nonidentically distributed and independent random fields such that different indices have different powers in the normalization.

MSC:60F05, 62F15.

1 Introduction

Let Z + d , where d is a positive integer, denote positive integer d-dimensional lattice points. For the elements of Z + d we use bold symbols m, n and so forth. Further, we will assume the usual partial ordering for elements of Z + d , i.e. for m=( m 1 , m 2 ,, m d ) and n=( n 1 , n 2 ,, n d ), mn if and only if m i n i for all i=1,2,,d. The strict inequality m<n is defined as follows: m<n if and only if mn and mn. We assume that n means max 1 i d n i . We also use |n| for i = 1 d n i .

Most of the results concerning limit theorems, especially for random fields, are obtained for identically distributed random variables.

Kuczmaszewska and Łagodowski [1] considered the concept of weak boundedness as follows.

Definition 1.1 (Kuczmaszewska and Łagodowski [1])

The random variables { X k ,k Z + d } are said to be weakly bounded by the random variable ξ if there exist some constants c 1 , c 2 >0, n 0 Z + d and x 0 >0 such that for every x> x 0 and n n 0 , n Z + d

c 1 P ( | ξ | > x ) 1 | n | k n P ( | X k | > x ) c 2 P ( | ξ | > x ) .
(1.1)

Clearly, the regular cover implies weak boundedness. If only the right-hand side inequality is satisfied we say that the random field { X n ,n Z + d } and the random variable ξ satisfy the weak mean dominating condition.

Gut [2] proved Marcinkiewicz laws and convergence rates in the law of large numbers for i.i.d. random fields and Gut [3] also showed convergence rates for probabilities of moderate deviations for independent random fields.

Recently, the limit theorems for independent random fields such that different indices have different powers in the normalization are investigated. For example, Thanh [4] provided the strong law of large numbers for independent random fields and Gut and Stadtmüller [5] proved the Marcinkiewicz-Zygmund law for i.i.d. random fields and Gut and Stadtmüller [6] also obtained the Hsu-Robbins-Erdős-Spitzer-Baum-Katz theorem for i.i.d. random fields.

It is clear that independent random fields imply martingale difference random fields. Hence, from Theorem 4.1 in Kuczmaszewska and Łagodowski [1] we obtained the following convergence rates in the strong law of large numbers for independent random fields with nonidentical distribution.

Theorem 1.2 Let { X n ,n Z + d } be the a field of independent random variables with E X n =0 for n Z + d . Assume, for r>1, α> 1 2 and αr>1,

n | n | α r 2 i n P { | X i | > | n | α } <,
(1.2)
n | n | α ( r 2 ) 2 i n E ( | X i | 2 I [ | X i | | n | α ] ) <,
(1.3)

and

n | n | α r 2 P { max j n | i j E ( X i I [ | X i | | n | α ] ) | > ϵ | n | α } <
(1.4)

for all ϵ>0. Then

n | n | α r 2 P { max j n | S j | > ϵ | n | α } <for all ϵ>0,
(1.5)

where S j = i j X i .

From Corollary 4.1 in Kuczmaszewska and Łagodowski [1] we also obtain the following corollary.

Corollary 1.3 Let { X n ,n Z + d } be a field of independent random variables with E X n =0 for n Z + d . Then (1.2), (1.3), and

1 | n | α max j n i j E ( X i I [ | X i | | n | α ] ) 0as |n|
(1.6)

imply (1.5).

Kuczmaszewska and Łagodowski [1] investigated the following convergence rate for independent random field weakly dominated by the random variable ξ.

Theorem 1.4 (Kuczmaszewska and Łagodowski [1])

Let { X n ,n Z + d } be a field of independent random variables weakly dominated by the random variable ξ and E X n =0 for n Z + d . Moreover, we assume that for 1<r<2, 1pd

E | ξ | r ( log + | ξ | ) p 1 <,
(1.7)

where log x + =max{1,logx}. Then, for αr>1 and α> 1 2 , (1.5) holds.

In this paper we generalize the above results (Theorem 1.2, Corollary 1.3, and Theorem 1.4) to the case where different indices have different powers in the normalization.

2 Results

In Section 1 every coordinate n k , k=1,2,,d, is raised to the same power α. The main point of this section is to allow for different powers for different coordinates. In order to continue we therefore define α=( α 1 , α 2 ,, α d ), where, w.l.o.g., we assume that the coordinates are arranged in nondecreasing order, such that α 1 is the smallest one and α d the largest one. We further let p denote the number of α’s which are equal to the smallest one, that is, p=max{k: α k = α 1 }.

As is easily seen the domain of interest concerning the α’s becomes

1 2 α 1 α 2 α d 1,

where the boundary 1 2 takes us into the realm of the central limit theorem and the boundary 1 corresponds to the Kolmogorov strong law.

For ease of notation, we use the notation n α =( n 1 α 1 , n 2 α 2 ,, n d α d ) and | n α |= i = 1 d n i α i .

Lemma 2.1 (Gut and Stadtmüller [6])

Let ξ be a random variable. Let α 1 > 1 2 and 1pd, where α=( α 1 , α 2 ,, α d ) with 1 2 < α 1 == α p < α p + 1 α d 1. Then, for any r>0 and all ϵ>0,

E | ξ | r ( log + | ξ | ) p 1 < n | n | α 1 r 1 P ( | ξ | > ϵ | n α | ) <.
(2.1)

The following lemma appeared in Lemma 3.1 of Thanh [4].

Lemma 2.2 (Thanh [4])

Let { X n ,n Z + d } be a field of independent random variables with E X n =0. Then there exists a constant C depending only on p and d such that

E ( max k n | S k | p ) C i n E | X i | p for all 0<p2.

Remark In the case 0<p1, the independent hypothesis and the hypothesis that E X n =0 are superfluous, and C is given by C=1. In the case 1<p<2, C is given by C=2 ( p p 1 ) p d . In the case p=2, Lemma 2.2 was proved by Wichura [7] and C is given by C= 4 d .

Theorem 2.3 Let { X n ,n Z + d } be a field of independent random variables with E X n =0 for n Z + d and let α=( α 1 , α 2 ,, α d ), where 1 2 < α 1 == α p < α p + 1 α d 1 and 1pd. Assume, for r>1 and α 1 r>1,

n | n | α 1 r 2 i n P ( | X i | > | n α | ) <,
(2.2)
n | n | α 1 ( r 2 ) 2 i n E ( | X i | 2 I ( | X i | | n α | ) ) <,
(2.3)

and

n | n | α 1 r 2 P { max j n | i j E ( X i I [ | X i | | n α | ] ) | > ϵ | n α | } <
(2.4)

for all ϵ>0. Then we obtain

n | n | α 1 r 2 P { max j n | S j | > ϵ | n α | } <for all ϵ>0.
(2.5)

Proof Let X n , i = X i I[| X i || n α |], X n , i = X n , i E( X n , i ) and S n , j = i j X n , i . Then

n | n | α 1 r 2 P { max j n | S j | > ϵ | n α | } n | n | α 1 r 2 i n P ( | X i | > | n α | ) + n | n | α 1 r 2 P { max j n | i j X i I [ | X i | | n α | ] | > ϵ | n α | } n | n | α 1 r 2 i n P ( | X i | > | n α | ) + n | n | α 1 r 2 P { max j n | S n , j | > ϵ 2 | n α | } + n | n | α 1 r 2 P { max j n | i j E ( X i I [ | X i | | n α | ] ) | > ϵ 2 | n α | } = I 1 + I 2 + I 3 .
(2.6)

It follows from (2.2) and (2.4) that

I 1 <and I 3 <
(2.7)

hold. It remains to prove that I 2 <.

By the Markov inequality and Lemma 2.2, for some positive constant C we obtain

P { max j n | S n , j | > ϵ 2 | n α | } C E ( max j n S n , j 2 ) | n α | 2 C i n E X n , i 2 | n α | 2 C | n α | 2 i n E ( X i 2 I [ | X i | | n α | ] ) C | n | 2 α 1 i n E ( X i 2 I [ | X i | | n α | ] )
(2.8)

since | n | 2 α 1 | n α | 2 . Therefore, by (2.3) and (2.8) we obtain

I 2 = n | n | α 1 r 2 P { max j n | S n , j | > ϵ 2 | n α | } C n | n | α 1 ( r 2 ) 2 E ( X i 2 I [ | X i | | n α | ] ) < .
(2.9)

Hence, by (2.6), (2.7), and (2.9) the result (2.5) follows. □

Remark Theorem 2.3 generalizes Theorem 1.2 to the case where different indices have different powers in the normalization. That is, Theorem 1.2 is a special case of Theorem 2.3 with α 1 = α 2 == α d .

Corollary 2.4 Let { X n ,n Z + d } be a field of independent random variables such that E X n =0 for n Z + d . Let r1, α 1 > 1 2 and α 1 r>1, where α=( α 1 , α 2 ,, α d ) with 1 2 < α 1 == α p < α p + 1 α d 1 and 1pd. Assume (2.2), (2.3), and

1 | n | α 1 max j n i j E ( X i I [ | X i | | n α | ] ) 0as |n|.
(2.10)

Then (2.5) holds.

Proof It is easy to see that (2.10) implies (2.4). Thus, by Theorem 2.3 we get (2.5). □

Remark The following corollary shows that the assumption (2.4) is natural and it reduces to the known one.

In the case of a weakly dominated random field, we have the following theorem.

Corollary 2.5 Let { X n ,n Z + d } be a field of independent random variables weakly dominated by the random variable ξ and such that E X n =0 for n Z + d . Let 1 2 < α 1 == α p < α p + 1 α d 1, where α=( α 1 , α 2 ,, α d ) and 1pd. Assume that for r>2

E | ξ | r ( log + | ξ | ) p 1 <.
(2.11)

Then (2.5) holds.

Proof We are going to prove Corollary 2.5 by using Corollary 2.4. It follows from Lemma 2.1 and (2.11) that, for α 1 r>1, we have

n | n | α 1 r 2 i n P ( | X i | > | n α | ) < C n | n | α 1 r 1 P ( | ξ | > | n α | ) = C E | ξ | r ( log + | ξ | ) p 1 < ,
(2.12)

which yields (2.2).

Furthermore, we get

n | n | α 1 ( r 2 ) 2 i n E X i 2 I [ | X i | | n α | ] n | n | α 1 ( r 2 ) 2 ( | n | E ξ 2 I [ | ξ | | n α | ] + | n | 1 + 2 α 1 P ( | ξ | > | n α | ) ) = C n | n | α 1 ( r 2 ) 1 E ξ 2 I [ | ξ | | n α | ] + C n | n | α 1 r 1 P ( | ξ | > | n α | ) = I 4 + I 5 .
(2.13)

It follows from (2.11) and Lemma 2.1 that

I 5 <.
(2.14)

Let 1 2 < α 1 == α p < α p + 1 α d 1 and let ν= n 1 ×× n p .

To show I 4 < define

f(ν)= n 1 n p ν 1 ν ( log ν ) p 1 ( p 1 ) ! as ν

with differences Δf(ν)=f(ν)f(ν1)= n 1 n p = ν 1.

(See Gut and Stadtmüller [5].)

Then we have

I 4 = n | n | α 1 ( r 2 ) 1 E | ξ | 2 I [ | ξ | | n α | ] = ν , n p + 1 , , n d = 1 Δ f ( ν ) ( ν n p + 1 n d ) α 1 ( r 2 ) 1 j = 1 ν α 1 n p + 1 α p + 1 n d α d E ( ξ 2 I ( j 1 < | ξ | j ) ) ν , n p + 1 , , n d = 1 ( ν n p + 1 n d ) α 1 ( r 2 ) 1 Δ f ( ν ) j = 1 ν α 1 n p + 1 α p + 1 n d α d j 2 P ( j 1 < | ξ | j ) C ν , n p + 1 , , n d = 1 ( ν n p + 1 n d ) α 1 ( r 2 ) 1 Δ f ( ν ) j = 1 ν α 1 n p + 1 α p + 1 n d α d ( i = 1 j i ) P ( j 1 < | ξ | j ) C ν , n p + 1 , , n d = 1 ( ν n p + 1 n d ) α 1 ( r 2 ) 1 Δ f ( ν ) j = 1 ν α 1 n p + 1 α p + 1 n d α d j P ( | ξ | > j ) C n p + 1 , , n d = 1 ( n p + 1 n d ) α 1 ( r 2 ) 1 { j = 1 n p + 1 α p + 1 n d α d j r 1 j 2 r P ( | ξ | > j ) ν = 1 ν α 1 ( r 2 ) 1 Δ f ( ν ) + j = n p + 1 α p + 1 n d α d + 1 j P ( | ξ | > j ) ν = ( j / n p + 1 α p + 1 n d α d ) 1 / α 1 ν α 1 ( r 2 ) 1 Δ f ( ν ) } C n p + 1 , , n d = 1 ( n p + 1 n d ) α 1 ( r 2 ) 1 { ( n p + 1 α p + 1 n d α d ) 2 r × j = 1 n p + 1 α p + 1 n d α d j r 1 P ( | ξ | > j ) ν = 1 ( ν α 1 ( r 2 ) 1 ( ν + 1 ) α 1 ( r 2 ) 1 ) f ( ν ) + j = n p + 1 α p + 1 n d α d + 1 j P ( | ξ | > j ) ν = ( j / n p + 1 α p + 1 n d α d ) 1 / α 1 ( ν α 1 ( r 2 ) 1 ( ν + 1 ) α 1 ( r 2 ) 1 ) f ( ν ) } C n p + 1 , , n d = 1 n p + 1 ( r 2 ) ( α 1 α p + 1 ) 1 n n d ( r 2 ) ( α 1 α d ) 1 j = 1 j r 1 ( log j ) p 1 P ( | ξ | > j ) < by (2.11) .
(2.15)

Thus, by (2.13), (2.14), and (2.15) we established (2.3).

It remains to obtain (2.10). Since E X n =0, we get

1 | n | α 1 max j n | i j E ( X i I [ | X i | | n α | ] ) | = 1 | n | α 1 max j n | i j E ( X i I [ | X i | > | n α | ] ) | 1 | n | α 1 i n E ( | X i | I [ | X i | > | n | α 1 ] ) 1 | n | α 1 r i n E ( | X i | r I [ | X i | > | n | α 1 ] ) C | n | α 1 r 1 E | ξ | r 0 as  | n | ,
(2.16)

which yields (2.10). Therefore, by (2.12)-(2.16) and Corollary 2.4 we get (2.5). □

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Ko, M.H. On the convergence rates in the asymmetric SLLN for independent and nonidentically distributed random fields. J Inequal Appl 2014, 220 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1186/1029-242X-2014-220

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