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Disjoint ideal fair-bit streams yield independent standard normals by Box–Muller
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Choice and Dependent Choice. On the countable product space of ideal independent fair bits, choose two disjoint infinite coordinate subsequences and form their bit-stream uniforms . Use the displayed formula when , and define when , so the null endpoint event is assigned a value. Then are independent with the canonical standard-normal law .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The Axiom of Choice, Dependent Choice, the fair-bit product construction, and the two Box–Muller formulas in the Statement.
Disjoint fair-bit subsequences produce independent uniform variables under Countable Choice and Dependent Choice. Disjoint streams of independent fair bits produce independent uniform variables
The Box–Muller transform of a joint-uniform pair has independent marginals with density . Box–Muller has a product Gaussian density and Rayleigh second moment
Under the Axiom of Choice, the canonical law is the probability measure with density . Standard normal and normal laws
A singleton has Lebesgue measure zero, so each uniform coordinate has zero probability of either endpoint. A box in with parameters is Lebesgue measurable of measure , whichever of its faces are included
The Axiom of Choice supplies Countable Choice and is used to identify the canonical law. The Axiom of Choice, The Axiom of Countable Choice ()
Dependent Choice is required by the countable fair-bit product. The axiom of dependent choice: a relation in which every element is related to something admits an -indexed chain
Proof
By [F1], the two disjoint subsequences give a joint-uniform pair on ; [F4] shows the pair lies in almost surely. The chosen endpoint convention changes no law. Applying [F2] gives a pair with independent marginals, each the probability law with density . The existence of this finite bit pair uses Dependent Choice through [F1].
By [A1], the Axiom of Choice supplies Countable Choice for the hypotheses of [F1] and is the exact axiom required by [F3]. Thus each density- marginal is the canonical law, and the pair remains independent.
Depends on
- Disjoint streams of independent fair bits produce independent uniform variables
- Box–Muller has a product Gaussian density and Rayleigh second moment
- Standard normal and normal laws
- The Axiom of Choice
- The Axiom of Countable Choice ($\mathrm{AC}_\omega$)
- The axiom of dependent choice: a relation in which every element is related to something admits an $\mathbb{N}$-indexed chain
- A box in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with parameters $a_i\le b_i$ is Lebesgue measurable of measure $\prod_{i<n}(b_i-a_i)$, whichever of its faces are included
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Sources
- Luc Devroye, Non-Uniform Random Variate Generation, Chapter V §4.4, generating normal random variates (standard reference, not scraped)
- E. M. Raz, Lecture Notes in Probability, Chapter 5, Exercise 5.2 (standard reference, not scraped)