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Local and uniform moduli of continuity of chi--square processes

Probability 2021-06-02 v1

Abstract

Let η={η(t);t[0,1]}\eta=\{\eta(t);t\in [0,1]\} be a mean zero continuous Gaussian process with covariance U={U(s,t),s,t[0,1]},U=\{U(s,t),s,t\in [ 0,1]\}, with U(0,0)>0U(0,0)>0. Let {ηi;i=1,,k}\{\eta_{i};i=1,\ldots, k\} be independent copies of η\eta and set Yk(t)=i=1kηi2(t),t[0,1]. Y_{k}(t)=\sum_{i=1}^{k} \eta^2_{i}(t), t\in [ 0,1]. The stochastic process Yk={Yk(t),t[0,1]}Y_{k } =\{Y_{k }(t),t\in [ 0,1] \} is referred to as a chi--square process of order kk with kernel UU. Let ϕ(t)\phi(t) be a positive function on [0,δ][0,\delta] for some δ>0\delta>0. If lim supt0η(t)η(0)ϕ(t)=1a.s.,\limsup_{t\to 0}\frac{ \eta(t)-\eta(0)}{ \phi(t) }=1 \qquad a.s., then for all integers k1k\ge 1, lim supt0Yk(t)Yk(0)ϕ(t)=2Yk1/2(0)a.s. \limsup_{t\to 0} \frac{Y_{k }(t)-Y_{k }(0)} { \phi (t)} = 2 Y^{1/2}_{k}(0) \qquad a.s. Set σ2(u,v)=E(η(u)η(v))2andσ~2(x)=supuvxσ2(u,v). \sigma^2(u,v)=E(\eta(u)-\eta(v))^2\quad\text{and}\quad \widetilde\sigma^2(x)=\sup_{|u-v|\le x}\sigma^2(u,v). Assume that inft[0,1]U(t,t)>0\inf_{t\in [0,1]}U(t,t)>0 and, limx0σ~2(x)log1/x=0. \lim_{x\to0}\widetilde\sigma^2(x)\log 1/x =0. Let φ(t)\varphi(t) be a positive function on [0,1][0,1]. Then if limh0supu,vΔuvhη(u)η(v)φ(uv)=1a.s. \lim_{h\to 0}\sup_{\stackrel{|u-v|\le h }{ u,v\in\Delta}}\frac{ \eta(u)-\eta(v)}{ \varphi(|u-v|) }=1 \qquad a.s. for all intervals Δ[0,1]\Delta\subset [0,1], it follows that for all intervals Δ[0,1]\Delta\subset [0,1] and all integers k1k\ge 1, limh0supu,vΔuvhYk(u)Yk(v)φ(uv)=2supuΔYk1/2(u),a.s. \lim_{h\to 0}\sup_{\stackrel{|u-v|\le h }{ u,v\in\Delta}} \frac{Y_{k }(u)-Y_{k }(v) }{ \varphi (|u-v|)} = 2 \sup_{u\in\Delta}Y_{k }^{1/2}(u), \hspace{.2 in}a.s.

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@article{arxiv.2106.00542,
  title  = {Local and uniform moduli of continuity of chi--square processes},
  author = {Michael B. Marcus and Jay Rosen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.00542},
  year   = {2021}
}

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11 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2006.14457