Basis invariance of an isonormal Gaussian process

ID: basis-invariance-of-an-isonormal-gaussian-process

For any real separable Hilbert space , any orthonormal basis and independent standard normal random variables , the displayed series converges almost surely for each fixed and in L2 space. Indeed, the Parseval identity for a Hilbertian basis gives , so the partial sums form an L2 space-bounded martingale. The martingale convergence theorem supplies both limits. Every finite linear combination has the normal distribution with variance . Thus its finite-dimensional characteristic function is , independent of the chosen orthonormal basis. This proves equality of the finite-dimensional distributions of the resulting isonormal Gaussian processes; pathwise equality needs a coupling.

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