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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2015 iii Paper 34 2 Solution by
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For quota share reinsurance, each claim and therefore its aggregate are retained in the same proportion. For aggregate stop loss reinsurance, the insurer pays the aggregate up to the retention, and the reinsurer pays the excess. Thus the insurer's payouts areThe subscript denotes the positive part. The stop loss contract here applies to the annual aggregate, rather than separately to each claim.
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Write and . For the random sum of independent claims, conditioning on givesThe law of total expectation and the law of total variance therefore give the aggregate momentsThe first term in the variance measures variation of the individual claims at a fixed count; the second measures variation of the count itself. These formulas require the indicated moments to be finite.
For the moment-generating function, independent random variables givewhere is the probability generating function. This identity holds wherever the expectations are finite; in particular a moment-generating function need not exist for positive for an arbitrary positive claim distribution. The empty sum for is zero.
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A real Lie group is a finite-dimensional real smooth manifold with a group structure whose multiplication and inversion are smooth. Its tangent space at the identity element is the vector space of velocities of smooth curves through . For the general linear group it identifies with . The matrix exponential and local matrix logarithm areThe exponential is globally defined, and each matrix is invertible with inverse . The logarithm here is a local map near ; it is not a globally defined inverse on every real invertible matrix. The differential of at zero is the identity, and the two power series are inverse locally.
For a general , the assumed Exponential map of a Lie group with has a smooth local inverse by the inverse function theorem, giving a local exponential chart. Define the Lie bracket from local group commutators byFor small the group commutator lies in that chart. More explicitly, the map is smooth and has . Its mixed second differential at is a bilinear map of , proving bilinearity. Swapping the two group elements inverts the commutator, and near . Thus and . In the matrix group, expansion to the mixed term gives the familiar commutator .
For , let and define the Adjoint representation of a Lie group by . It is smooth and satisfies . Its derived representation is . Naturality of the Exponential map of a Lie group under conjugation givesAt , the derivative of the logarithm of the commutator is : the derivative of multiplication at adds tangent vectors, and . Differentiate in to concludeTo prove the Jacobi identity without assuming it in the bracket construction, first establish that the differential of a Lie group homomorphism preserves Lie brackets. For a homomorphism , the allowed exponential identity gives locally. Apply this identity to the group commutator and take the mixed derivative to obtain . In particular givesApplying both sides to yields . Rearranging with antisymmetry provesNeither injectivity of nor the existence of a global logarithm was used.
Finally let be a normal Lie subgroup of , with its corresponding Lie algebra . For each , conjugation restricts to , so its differential preserves : . Differentiate along to get for every and . Thus the Lie algebra of a normal Lie subgroup is an ideal of a Lie algebra. The assertion concerns a subgroup carrying the corresponding Lie-subgroup structure, for example any closed subgroup; no arbitrary abstract subgroup is being assigned a tangent space.
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Work over . Decompose as the direct sum of the generalized eigenspaces of . Define to be on and set . Then is a diagonalisable endomorphism, is a nilpotent endomorphism, and they commute. For uniqueness, any commuting decomposition has and commuting with , hence preserving each . Decompose further into eigenspaces of . On a nonzero such space with eigenvalue , the operator has only the eigenvalue , so . Since is diagonalizable, throughout . Thus and . This is the Additive Jordan decomposition.
The Chinese remainder theorem for the pairwise coprime polynomials also gives a polynomial with , where is the largest Jordan block size. Consequently and . This polynomial description shows that both parts preserve every -invariant subspace.
On the operator is the scalar , so it is diagonalizable. The nilpotence of commutation by a nilpotent endomorphism makes nilpotent. They commute, since . Uniqueness of the Additive Jordan decomposition therefore gives the adjoint compatibility of additive Jordan decomposition:Now let be a complex semisimple Lie algebra and . Since the semisimple part of is a polynomial in , it preserves . Thus . By the Weyl complete reducibility theorem, the Adjoint representation of on has a decomposition into invariant subspaces. Write with and . For , the vector lies in , and invariance of puts it in as well. Hence .
Decompose into Irreducible Lie algebra representations. Each is preserved by and by , hence by . The Schur lemma makes . A semisimple Lie algebra is a perfect Lie algebra, so every representing element of has zero trace on every . Also , because is nilpotent there. It follows that . In characteristic zero, , so . Therefore and . This proves that semisimple matrix Lie algebras are closed under additive Jordan decomposition, including representations with repeated isomorphic irreducible summands.
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For an affine variety, every coherent ideal sheaf is quasi-coherent; vanishing of quasi-coherent cohomology on an affine scheme therefore gives .
For the projective-space complement, assume and choose two distinct closed points . Take the ideal sheaf of two closed points on . The codimension-two extension of regular functions on a normal variety givesOne can see this directly: on every standard affine chart of , a rational function written in lowest terms cannot have a nonconstant denominator, because an irreducible polynomial factor of the denominator would define a pole along a codimension-one hypersurface, and such a hypersurface is not removed by . The extended function is constant because every global regular function on projective space is constant. Now the short exact sequencesends diagonally into on global sections. Its cokernel is , and the long exact sequence in sheaf cohomology injects that cokernel into . ThusThe assumption is necessary: is already affine and has no such example.
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The opening change-of-rings tensor quotient sends to . The target pairing is bilinear and -balanced because . On the source, let act through the first factor; commutativity makes that action compatible with the -balancing relations, and the map is -linear. It is surjective: the target is the quotient imposing the additional relations for every . The construction commutes with module homomorphisms in both variables.
The pullback-direct-image adjunction unit is obtained locally by pulling a section to and sending it to in . These maps respect restrictions and the -actions, hence defineFor , multiplication identifies with , and is precisely the structure morphism .
To construct the direct-image tensor comparison, on send , with and , to its tensor section of . This pairing is -balanced through and is compatible with restrictions. The universal property of the tensor product of modules and sheafification therefore giveApply this with after tensoring the unit with . The composite is the map in the projection formula for sheaves. If , then , and the composite identifies withthe identity on the components. Thus it is an isomorphism for a locally free sheaf of finite rank. Neither nor was assumed quasi-coherent.
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The Frankl-Wilson theorem. Let be a prime number, let have elements, and let . Suppose that for every , whereas for all distinct members. Thenwith terms beyond understood as zero.
Work over the finite field . For each member define its intersection polynomialReplace every positive power by to obtain a multilinear polynomial of polynomial degree at most . This Boolean multilinearization preserves its values at every characteristic vector of a set. At the characteristic vector of a set ,It is zero if and nonzero if . Evaluating a proposed linear relation at each therefore establishes linear independence of the . The vector space of multilinear polynomials of polynomial degree at most has the basis of monomials , , of size . This proves the Frankl-Wilson theorem by the polynomial method in combinatorics. The empty product for is , and the argument still applies.
The constant-intersection family bound, directly. Write and assume . The cases are immediate. If , the nonempty members are pairwise disjoint and there can also be the empty set, givingFor , every member has size at least . If every member has size strictly greater than , form the real matrix whose rows are their characteristic vectors of sets. Its Gram matrix satisfiesFor any nonzero real vector ,Thus the rows are linearly independent and . If a member has size , it lies inside every other member. The sets , , are nonempty and pairwise disjoint, so . This also givesThese bounds are sharp: the singletons together with attain at , while all complements of singletons attain at when .
The constant t-wise intersection dichotomy. In its substantive form the last argument requires . The printed statement does not explicitly impose this. Without it the -fold condition can be vacuous and the claimed dichotomy is false: take , , , , and . There is no -tuple to test, no common -set, and , so . We therefore prove the intended assertion for and record this necessary qualification.
If , the first alternative always holds with . Suppose . Choose indices attaining the minimum intersection size , and writeFor each of the remaining indices put . The hypothesis gives for distinct remaining indices. This reduces the constant t-wise intersection dichotomy to a constant-intersection family bound on the -element set . The two possibilities are treated below.
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