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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2015 iii Paper 5 2 3 Solution by
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Use the assumed separability of the Hilbert space to choose a countable Hilbertian basis . For , every scalar sequence is bounded. Repeated extraction followed by the diagonal subsequence argument gives one subsequence with all these coordinates converging, say to . The Bessel inequality gives for every , so exists and .
For , let be its finite basis truncation. Coordinate convergence gives , while the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality bounds the remaining inner product by , uniformly in . First choose large, then large. ThusThis proves the asserted sequential conclusion. To obtain actual compactness for the weak topology, note that on a bounded ball it is induced by the metricFinite coordinates and the uniformly small tail show that gives coordinate convergence; uniform boundedness of the ball extends this to every inner product as above. Hence this metric induces exactly the restricted weak topology. In a metric space, sequential compactness implies compactness. The closed unit ball is therefore weakly compact, and the limit remains inside it.
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Let be a singular Weyl sequence for at . Since is compact and , the preceding result gives . ThereforeThe norms remain one and the weak limit remains zero. The singular Weyl sequence criterion yields . Apply the same argument to and the compact self-adjoint operator for the reverse inclusion. Both operators are bounded and self-adjoint. Thus the Weyl theorem for compact self-adjoint perturbations isThe corrected shifted-range definition is necessary. For the diagonal example in the preceding solutions, a rank-one perturbation changing the entry to removes from the spectrum. The unshifted printed definition had classified as essential merely because the original range was not closed, so it would make this invariance false.
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Suppose is a compact operator and . The Uniform boundedness principle makes bounded. If did not converge in norm to , some subsequence would stay a fixed positive distance away. Compactness provides a further norm-convergent subsequence, say to . On the other hand, for every , , so its norm limit must be , a contradiction.
Conversely, if sends every weakly convergent sequence to a norm-convergent sequence, take any sequence in the closed unit ball. Weak compactness of that ball supplies a weakly convergent subsequence, whose images converge in norm by hypothesis. Thus every sequence in the image has a convergent subsequence in . Its closure is also sequentially compact: approximate its th member by an image point within . Since is a metric space, that closure is compact. We concludeThis is the principle that compact operators send weak convergence to norm convergence.
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Use the corrected essential spectrum of a bounded self-adjoint operator and put . Essential spectral points are real. If is infinite-dimensional, choose an orthonormal sequence in the kernel. It converges weakly to zero by the Bessel inequality, and its residuals vanish.
If is finite-dimensional, membership in the essential spectrum means the range is not closed. Choose unit with , using the closed-range bound on the kernel complement. A bounded Hilbert space sequence has a weakly convergent subsequence. Its weak limit satisfies because bounded operators preserve weak convergence, and ; hence . This subsequence is a singular Weyl sequence.
Conversely a singular Weyl sequence first places in the spectrum of a bounded operator. If it were not essential, the sequential properness for a self-adjoint operator equivalence for would yield a norm-convergent subsequence. Its weak limit is zero, whereas norm convergence of unit vectors gives a unit norm limit, a contradiction. ThereforeFor nonreal , the resolvent lower bound excludes such a sequence, so the equivalence covers all .
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Use the positive variable from part (a). Since and ,Combining these inequalities gives the one-period call price boundsFor the strict assertion, both and have positive probability. Positivity of givesIf , the second inequality is the required strict bound; if , the first is. Hence . The weighted expectations are finite because and are bounded.
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Applying death-only rate correction under exponential censoring to the death fraction and combined-rate estimate, the corrected plug-in death rate isThe corresponding censoring-rate estimate is . This correction is consistent under the independent exponential competition model: the death-only conditional rate estimates and the observed fraction estimates .
There is an important distinction from the full-data maximum-likelihood estimate. If and are total observed follow-up for the 100 deaths and 50 censored subjects, the full likelihood for both rates isThe reported death-only rate determines , but supplies no , so the exact full-data estimate cannot be reconstructed from the numerical summaries alone. The value is the requested corrected rate using those summaries; it need not equal the realised full-data maximum-likelihood estimate. The full analysis should use the actual censored follow-up whenever available.
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