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    Interchaning Limits and Inner Products

    Everything here is in a Hilbert space. If x_n\to x and y_n\to y in norm, then under what conditions does <x_n,y_n>\to <x,y>? Is this always true, and why? Does anyone have a source?
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    Denseness of bounded funtions in L^2?

    Let C_b^\infty(\mathbb{R}^n) be the space of infinitely differentiable functions f, such that f and all its partial derivatives are bounded. Is C_b^\infty(\mathbb{R}^n) dense in L^2(\mathbb{R}^n)? I think the answer is yes, because C_b^\infty(\mathbb{R}^n) contains C_0^\infty(\mathbb{R}^n), the...
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    Interchanging Linear Operator and Infinite Sum

    Suppose that x\in H, where H is a Hilbert space. Then x has an orthogonal decomposition x = \sum_{i=0}^\infty x_i. I have a linear operator P (more specifically a projection operator), and I want to write: P(x) = \sum_{i=0}^\infty P(x_i). How can I justify taking the operator inside the...
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    Do Hilbert Space Isomorphism Map Dense Sets to Dense Sets?

    Suppose that H, K are Hilbert spaces, and A : H -> K is a bounded linear operator and an isomorphism. If X is a dense set in H, then is A(X) a dense set in K? Any references to texts would also be helpful.
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    Does L^2 Convergance Imply Convergance of L^2 norms?

    The answer seems to obviously be yes. But it's not so obvious to show it. I'm working with random variables. So the L^2 norm of X is E(X^2)^{1/2}, where E is the expected value. Thus, we want to show: if E((X_n-X)^2)\to0, then E(X_n^2)\to E(X^2). From E((X_n^2-X)^2)\to0, we get...
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    Almost sure convergance of sum of rv

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergence_of_random_variables#Definition_3
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    Almost sure convergance of sum of rv

    If the PDF converges, that's convergence in distribution, which is weaker than almost sure convergence.
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    Almost sure convergance of sum of rv

    Yes, X is a random variable, not a number. I'm not sure if looking at the MGF will help though, as the only results I know about MGF and convergence (e.g. Levy's continuity theorem, and the theorem that if E(X_n^p)\to E(X^p) for all p, then we have convergence in distribution) are about...
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    Almost sure convergance of sum of rv

    I'm trying to prove that if \{X_n\} is independent and E(X_n)=0 for all n, and \sum_{n}E(X_n^2) <\infty, then \sum_{n}X_n converges almost surely. What I've got so far is the following: Denote the partial sums by \{S_n\}, then proving almost sure convergence is equivalent to showing that...
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    Mistake using Borel-Cantelli Lemma

    e.v. means eventually. For sets S_n, \{S_n e.v.\}:= \cup_{n\in \mathbb{N}}\cap_{m\geq n}S_n.
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    Mistake using Borel-Cantelli Lemma

    Thanks. How would we show that P(\liminf \bar{X}_n < c) = 1. I think this is P(\bar{X}_n < c \text{ e.v.}) = 1 - P(\bar{X}_n > c \text{ i.o.}) = 1 - 1 = 0, not 1.
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    Mistake using Borel-Cantelli Lemma

    I don't think there is a paradox, as the argument using ">" is valid. It shows that in the link, and the conclusion that the limsup is infinite is definitely correct. Something is wrong with it when I change to "<". Your argument doesn't make sense. Why can't we have a probability that contains...
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    Mistake using Borel-Cantelli Lemma

    Borel-Cantelli doesn't require independence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borel%E2%80%93Cantelli_lemma The line above "Example". And I don't think what you're saying is true, as it would seem to imply that Borel-Cantelli can't be used on sample means, when it's used to prove the Strong Law of...
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    Mistake using Borel-Cantelli Lemma

    What about the following argument. Let X_i be standard Cauchy. It's a well known fact about the Cauchy distribution that \bar{X}_n has the same distribution as X_1, i.e. the sample mean of standard Cauchy is standard Cauchy, for any n. Let c \geq 0 be arbitrary. Now P(\bar{X}_n > c) = P(X_1 >...
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    Mistake using Borel-Cantelli Lemma

    On example 2 on page 2 of this link (http://math.arizona.edu/~jgemmer/bishopprobability3.pdf) it uses Borel-Canetelli for random variables in the same way I did, even though they've defined io for sets only.
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