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Two remarks on Normality Preserving Borel Automorphisms of R^n

Probability 2011-11-28 v2

Abstract

Let TT be a bijective map on Rn\mathbb{R}^n such that both TT and T1T^{-1} are Borel measurable. For any \bthetaRn\btheta \in \mathbb{R}^n and any real n×nn \times n positive definite matrix Σ,\Sigma, let N(\btheta,Σ)N (\btheta, \Sigma) denote the nn-variate normal (gaussian) probability measure on Rn\mathbb{R}^n with mean vector \btheta\btheta and covariance matrix Σ.\Sigma. Here we prove the following two results: (1) Suppose N(\bthetaj,I)T1N(\btheta_j, I)T^{-1} is gaussian for 0jn0 \leq j \leq n where II is the identity matrix and {\bthetaj\btheta0,1jn}\{\btheta_j - \btheta_0, 1 \leq j \leq n \} is a basis for Rn.\mathbb{R}^n. Then TT is an affine linear transformation; (2) Let Σj=I+ϵjujuj,\Sigma_j = I + \epsilon_j \mathbf{u}_j \mathbf{u}_j^{\prime}, 1jn1 \leq j \leq n where ϵj>1\epsilon_j > -1 for every jj and uj,1jn{\mathbf{u}_j, 1 \leq j \leq n} is a basis of unit vectors in Rn\mathbb{R}^n with uj\mathbf{u}_j^{\prime} denoting the transpose of the column vector uj.\mathbf{u}_j. Suppose N(0,I)T1N(\mathbf{0}, I)T^{-1} and N(0,Σj)T1,N (\mathbf{0}, \Sigma_j)T^{-1}, 1jn1 \leq j \leq n are gaussian. Then T(x)=s1EsVsUxT(\mathbf{x}) = \sum\limits_{\mathbf{s}} 1_{E_{\mathbf{s}}} V \mathbf{s} U \mathbf{x} a.e. x\mathbf{x} where s\mathbf{s} runs over the set of 2n2^n diagonal matrices of order nn with diagonal entries ±1,\pm 1, U,VU,\, V are n×nn \times n orthogonal matrices and {Es}\{E_{\mathbf{s}}\} is a collection of 2n2^n Borel subsets of Rn\mathbb{R}^n such that {Es}\{E_{\mathbf{s}}\} and {VsU(Es)}\{V \mathbf{s} U (E_{\mathbf{s}})\} are partitions of Rn\mathbb{R}^n modulo Lebesgue-null sets and for every j,j, VsUΣj(VsU)1V \mathbf{s} U \Sigma_j (V \mathbf{s} U)^{-1} is independent of all s\mathbf{s} for which the Lebesgue measure of EsE_{\mathbf{s}} is positive. The converse of this result also holds. \vskip0.1in Our results constitute a sharpening of the results of S. Nabeya and T. Kariya

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@article{arxiv.1111.4804,
  title  = {Two remarks on Normality Preserving Borel Automorphisms of R^n},
  author = {K. R. Parthasarathy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.4804},
  year   = {2011}
}

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corrected a few typos