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White-noise spectral sequence representation
Statement
Let be a separable real Hilbert space with a fixed complete orthonormal basis , indexed by for or by ; the empty basis covers . Let be the isonormal white-noise experiment with , and write . For every parameter and every basis index , the observations are independent and have laws , where is the scalar normal law defined in the experiment.
For , set , with once all vectors of a finite basis have been included. Then
Thus every finite collection of observation functionals is reconstructed from the coefficient sequence in mean square. This does not assert almost-sure convergence of the full sequence of partial sums, a simultaneous path identity for all test vectors, or an -valued observation.
More precisely, let be the cylinder sigma-algebra on , let be the sigma-algebra on generated by its coordinate evaluations, and let be the field sampling law. Define by and , where a pushforward is . There is a measurable map , depending only on the indexed basis, such that for every parameter ,
These parameter-independent maps give equivalence of the field cylinder experiment and its coefficient experiment. One such map is the following. For and , let be the least integer with and put
For each fixed and , almost surely, and the same holds jointly for each fixed finite list of test vectors. The exceptional event may depend on and on that list; no intersection over all is asserted. In dimension zero the coefficient space is a singleton and returns the field with value zero at .
If and the basis is one of the wavelet or trigonometric bases used to define the negative Sobolev carrier , then under countable choice and for the same coordinate sequence is a Borel Gaussian random element in with mean coefficients and noise level . In infinite dimension it is not an -valued sample.
Statement references
Facts & Assumptions
Isonormal Gaussian white-noise inverse experiment: The process is linear into , centered, has covariance , and has independent standard-normal coordinates on every finite orthonormal tuple.
Orthonormal families, complete orthonormal systems and Hilbert bases: A complete orthonormal family has dense finite linear span in ; an orthogonal projection onto a finite span is given by the corresponding finite coefficient sum.
Cauchy–Schwarz: , with equality exactly for dependent pairs: For vectors in a real or complex inner-product space, .
Logarithmic negative Sobolev spaces for white noise: For , has squared coefficient norm , and the coefficient map embeds continuously into .
White noise is a Borel Gaussian law on the negative Sobolev space: Under countable choice, for the specified wavelet or trigonometric basis and , the independent standard-normal coefficient sequence is almost surely a Borel Gaussian random element of and is not an -valued random element.
Chebyshev-Markov inequality for the integral: For any nonnegative measurable on a measure space and , ; the space need not be finite or discrete.
The first Borel-Cantelli lemma for measures: If measurable events have summable probabilities, their limsup has probability zero; independence is not required.
Sequential suprema, infima, limsup, liminf, and pointwise limits of measurable functions are measurable: The limsup and liminf of a sequence of measurable real functions are measurable, as is their equality set.
Finite measures agreeing on a generating pi-system and on the whole space are equal: Finite measures agreeing on a generating pi-system and on the whole space agree on the generated sigma-algebra.
The law of a random element is a probability measure: The pushforward law of a measurable random element is a probability measure.
The Axiom of Countable Choice (): Countable choice states that every sequence of nonempty sets has a choice function.
Given: The experiment and hypotheses in the Statement, a fixed complete finite or countable orthonormal basis, and, for the final clause, the stated basis and .
Proof
For let and let . Orthonormality gives . For any , expanding the inner product of gives , so . Given , density of the finite span in [F2] gives with ; for , , so . Thus in norm, with the finite-basis case eventually equal to .
For distinct indices , [F1] gives independent standard-normal variables . Since , the affine map and its inverse are continuous, so and its noise coordinate generate the same sigma-algebra; independence therefore transfers. The affine-image definition of gives each law .
Put . The linearity clause in [F1] applied to the finite sum defining gives ; linearity of the inner product gives . Combining these identities yields .
In the carrier case covered by [F4]–[F5], [F1] supplies independent coordinates with the common standard-normal density and [A1] supplies the countable-choice hypothesis of [F5]. Hence [F5] makes the noise coefficient sequence a Borel Gaussian random element of ; [F4] puts each deterministic signal in the same space. Their sum is therefore an -valued Borel random element, and every continuous linear functional of it is a translate and positive rescaling of the corresponding centered Gaussian functional.
In the infinite-dimensional function-space case, if were an -valued sample on an event of probability one, then would also be -valued there, since and . This contradicts [F5], so the sample is not -valued.
With , linearity gives . Centering and the covariance identity in [F1] give and ; expanding the square therefore shows that the squared mean-square error is . By [F3] and step 1.1, both terms tend to zero, proving the asserted mean-square reconstruction. For any finite list of test vectors, the sum of their finitely many squared errors also tends to zero, so the coordinate reconstructions converge jointly in product mean square.
By step 1.1, for each and the set of integers with is nonempty. Its least element is uniquely defined, with no choice and no dependence on , or the observations. For fixed , is a finite linear combination of coordinate evaluations on , hence is measurable. By [F8], its limsup and liminf are measurable; their equality set, intersected with the set where their common value is finite, is the measurable real-convergence set . Defining to equal that limit on and zero on its complement is measurable: for a Borel set its preimage is , together with if . Thus every evaluation of is measurable, which makes measurable into . Each coordinate of is a field evaluation, so is measurable into as well.
Fix and . By steps 1.3 and 2.1, the real random variable satisfies . For every positive integer , [F6] applied to at threshold gives . The right-hand side is summable in , so [F7] makes eventually almost surely for each . The union over of these null exceptional events is null: disjointifying the union and using countable additivity bounds its probability by the sum of zeros. Off that union , proving almost surely. All limits here concern the explicitly specified representatives at a fixed ; the equalities used to compute the error hold almost surely and therefore give exactly the same second moments.
The coordinate law and the reconstructed law are probability measures by [F10]; they use only pushforwards of the given process, with no new product-existence assumption. For any finite list , intersect the finitely many probability-one events in step 3.1. On that intersection the reconstructed and original evaluation vectors agree, so and agree on every finite cylinder for Borel . These cylinders form a generating pi-system for , and both measures have total mass one, so [F9] gives on . This proves equality of laws without any uncountable intersection of probability-one events.
For every basis index , once , so orthonormality gives then, for every . Consequently and everywhere. If , completeness forces , every sum defining is zero, and returns the zero field; linearity gives almost surely. If is nonempty and finite, after its last index, so the same construction reduces to the finite linear reconstruction and all preceding arguments apply. Thus the maps in the Statement establish both sampling-law identities in every allowed dimension. The least-index construction spends no choice principle; the only countable-choice use remains step 1.4.
Coordinate diagram
For a fixed truncation (with no larger than the basis length in the finite-dimensional case), define , , and , where brackets denote equivalence classes in . The diagram commutes by finite linearity, as proved in step 1.3; the diagonal approximations converge to in by step 2.1. The diagram illustrates these maps and is not used in the proof.
Depends on
- Isonormal Gaussian white-noise inverse experiment
- Orthonormal families, complete orthonormal systems and Hilbert bases
- Cauchy–Schwarz: $|\langle x,y\rangle|\le\|x\|\,\|y\|$, with equality exactly for dependent pairs
- Logarithmic negative Sobolev spaces for white noise
- White noise is a Borel Gaussian law on the negative Sobolev space
- The Axiom of Countable Choice ($\mathrm{AC}_\omega$)
- Chebyshev-Markov inequality for the integral
- The first Borel-Cantelli lemma for measures
- Sequential suprema, infima, limsup, liminf, and pointwise limits of measurable functions are measurable
- Finite measures agreeing on a generating pi-system and on the whole space are equal
- The law of a random element is a probability measure
Used by
- SOLIT parameter choice on a geometric-variance grid Algorithm
- Gaussian sequence inverse model Definition
- Finite truncation with its omitted white-noise tail Example
- Gaussian coefficient sequence Example
- Risk decomposition and monotone bias for ordered spectral filters Lemma
- Symmetric Gaussian product-mixture testing bound Lemma
- SOLIT oracle risk bound and spectral rates Theorem
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Sources
- Kretschmann and Werner, Maximum a posteriori testing in statistical inverse problems, §1.1, PDF pp. 1–2 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Giné and Nickl, Mathematical Foundations of Infinite-Dimensional Statistical Models, §§1.2.2–1.2.3 and isonormal construction, PDF pp. 21–22 and 483–484 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Castillo and Nickl, Nonparametric Bernstein–von Mises theorems in Gaussian white noise, §1.2, equations (7)–(8), printed pp. 2005–2006 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Ding and Mathé, Minimax rates for statistical inverse problems under general source conditions, §1, equations (1)–(3), PDF pp. 11–12 (standard reference, not scraped)