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A note on maximal conditional entropy on Lebesgue spaces

Probability 2024-04-23 v2

Abstract

Let (X,B,P)(X,\mathcal{B},P) be a probability space and a\mathit{a} be a sub σ\sigma-field that is generated by an increasing sequence of sub σ\sigma-fields (an)nN(\mathit{a}_{n})_{n \in \mathbb{N}}. Given θΘ\theta \in \Theta, where Θ\Theta is some set, let (Xnθ)nN(X_{n}^{\theta})_{n \in \mathbb{N}} be a martingale adapted to (an)nN(\mathit{a}_{n})_{n \in \mathbb{N}}. Martin (1969) provides sufficient conditions to show that (Xnθ)nN(X_{n}^{\theta})_{n \in \mathbb{N}} converges a.s. uniformly on Θ\Theta to a random variable XθX^{\theta}. His results are based on the assumption that there exists an integer nn s.t. the conditional entropy given an\mathit{a}_{n} is uniformly bounded over the set of finite partitions of XX with atoms from a\mathit{a}. This study complements Martin's results by studying the latter assumption on the maximal conditional entropy in the context of measurable partitions of Lebesgue spaces. We provide conditions under which a\mathit{a} conveys too much information for the maximal conditional entropy to be finite. As an example, we consider the space of continuous functions with a compact support, equipped with the Borel σ\sigma-field.

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@article{arxiv.2310.05546,
  title  = {A note on maximal conditional entropy on Lebesgue spaces},
  author = {Michael Hediger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.05546},
  year   = {2024}
}
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