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Simultaneous rational conditional distribution function versions
Statement
Assume AC. Let be measurable on a probability space and a sub-sigma-algebra. There are real -measurable versions of for every and one , , such that outside , simultaneously,
Here and the final assertion holds for every rational . The versions may moreover be filled on by , so all these properties hold everywhere.
The proof also establishes the restricted integral interface used here and below: arbitrary nonnegative simple displays give the same integral after zero-complement refinement; the resulting nonnegative integral is monotone, additive, positively homogeneous, has as a separate zero-scalar clause, and satisfies monotone convergence. On a finite measure space, bounded decreasing convergence follows. Under AC, every event has a bounded conditional-density version, unique almost surely, and these versions preserve inclusion, constants, and monotone event limits.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The hypotheses and conventions in the statement.
The simple and nonnegative integrals are respectively the finite coefficient sum with and the supremum over nonnegative simple minorants. The integral of a nonnegative simple function, The nonnegative Lebesgue integral, Integral over a measurable subset.
Every nonnegative measurable function has prescribed increasing simple approximants. Every nonnegative measurable function is the increasing limit of simple measurable functions.
Hahn decomposition applies to the finite signed measures used in the density construction. Hahn decomposition for signed measures, unique up to total-variation-null sets.
Measures are countably additive and continuous from below. Measures on sigma-algebras, Continuity from below for measures.
AC selects maximizing sequences, Hahn decompositions and the rational family of densities. The Axiom of Choice.
The rationals and their finite products are countable. is countably infinite, A product of two at most countable sets is at most countable.
A specified countable union of measurable null sets is null. Finite and countable subadditivity of measures.
Limsup, liminf and convergence sets of measurable functions are measurable. Sequential suprema, infima, limsup, liminf, and pointwise limits of measurable functions are measurable.
Proof
We first repair the integral interface. Given two finite disjoint simple displays , adjoin and , both with coefficient zero. The intersections , now including indices zero, form a finite measurable partition of all of . On every nonempty cell the two coefficients agree, so finite additivity gives equal coefficient sums. This includes infinite-measure zero cells because both corresponding products are the stipulated . Thus the simple integral in [F1] is representation-independent. A common zero-complement refinement now proves monotonicity and additivity for simple functions. For a scalar , termwise multiplication proves positive homogeneity; for , the zero display gives directly, without forming .
The supremum definition in [F1] therefore gives monotonicity of the nonnegative integral and agreement with the simple integral. Multiplication by bijects the simple minorants of and , giving positive homogeneity; again is separate. If , let . For a simple and , put . Then . The formula is a measure by the finite partition formula from step 1.1, so [F4] gives . Since , positive homogeneity gives ; let first and then to obtain . Taking the supremum over proves monotone convergence. Using the approximants in [F2], simple additivity and monotone convergence give . Consequently is a measure: apply monotone convergence to finite unions of a disjoint sequence. If the ambient measure is finite and , then ; additivity in the finite identity proves bounded decreasing convergence.
We next construct conditional densities without importing a conditional-expectation theorem. For an event , set on . Let be the nonnegative measurable satisfying for every , and let . The maximum of two members remains in : split each test event over and its complement and use step 2.1. By [F5] choose with integrals tending to , and put . By F8 the supremum f is measurable. Step 2.1 gives and . The set function is a finite positive measure. If it were not singular to , choose by [F3] a positive set for for every . If every , their union is null by [F7], and on its complement for every , so is concentrated on a -null set, a contradiction. Hence some has positive -measure, and has integral greater than , again a contradiction. Thus . Since , it is also absolutely continuous, so its singular carrier immediately gives . We have proved for all .
Since , the sets show that almost surely. Comparing on shows that almost surely. Changing on the measurable union of these null sets gives a real -valued density. If represent and , then on , step 2.1 gives whereas the representation identities give . Hence for every , so almost surely. Taking in both directions proves uniqueness; proves the constant-zero and constant-one assertions. For , set all selected densities to zero on the countable union of their order failures and put . Step 2.1 and [F4] give , so uniqueness identifies with the density of . Decreasing event limits follow by applying this to complements and using , an instance of the finite additivity from step 2.1. This proves every restricted conditional-density assertion in the statement.
Apply step 3.1 to and use [F5] to select one real -measurable density for each rational . The selection is countable by [F6]. Step 4.1 gives almost surely and almost surely whenever . Since , , and , the event-limit clause of step 4.1 gives the two tail limits and every rational right-limit almost surely.
Form the union of the failure sets for the bounds, rational order comparisons, two tail limits, and the right-limit assertion for each rational . They belong to by rational-cut descriptions and [F8], and they are null by step 5.1. There are countably many by [F6], so [F7] gives . Replace each on by . Pasting preserves measurability. A bounded difference supported on N has absolute value at most a constant times , whose integral is zero by step 2.1, so all event integrals are unchanged and the functions remain versions. The filler is increasing, has the required tails, and satisfies the right-limit property also at .
Depends on
- The integral of a nonnegative simple function
- The nonnegative Lebesgue integral
- Integral over a measurable subset
- Measures on sigma-algebras
- Every nonnegative measurable function is the increasing limit of simple measurable functions
- Hahn decomposition for signed measures, unique up to total-variation-null sets
- Continuity from below for measures
- The Axiom of Choice
- $\mathbb{Q}$ is countably infinite
- Finite and countable subadditivity of measures
- A product of two at most countable sets is at most countable
- Sequential suprema, infima, limsup, liminf, and pointwise limits of measurable functions are measurable
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Sources
- Durrett, Probability: Theory and Examples, fifth edition (standard reference, not scraped)
- Varadhan, Probability Theory, Chapter 4 (standard reference, not scraped)