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The Lindeberg condition implies Feller negligibility
Statement
For a centered triangular array with , the Lindeberg condition implies Feller negligibility: . Independence is not needed.
Facts & Assumptions
In normalized rows the Lindeberg quantity is the sum of the truncated second moments. Total row variance and the Lindeberg condition.
An integrable function splits into its two complementary restrictions. The Lebesgue integral is linear on .
Nonnegative integrals preserve pointwise inequalities. Monotonicity and nonnegative homogeneity of the nonnegative integral.
Proof
Given: For a centered triangular array with , the Lindeberg condition implies Feller negligibility: . Independence is not needed.
Fix . For each entry split its square on and its complement. The first integral is at most . The second is one nonnegative term of . Centering identifies variance with second moment, hence . The maximum exists because the row is finite and nonempty.
For any , take . Lindeberg gives an index after which . The preceding bound is then less than eta, proving convergence to zero. Values at the cutoff stay in the small part, zero entries satisfy the bound, and a single variance-one summand in every row would contradict this conclusion and hence could not satisfy Lindeberg. The proof uses only given finite rows and explicit inequalities, not independence or choice.
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Sources
- Durrett, Probability: Theory and Examples, Section 3.4.2 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Billingsley, Probability and Measure, Section 27 (standard reference, not scraped)