Inverse-power sum over Poisson arrivals

ID: inverse-power-sum-over-poisson-arrivals

For unit-rate Poisson process arrivals , is finite almost surely when . There are finitely many positive arrivals before time one; the expected contribution afterwards is , by the Poisson expectation identity proved on simple functions and extended by monotone convergence. Merging independent processes of rates and produces rate ; rescaling their arrivals by restores unit rate. Hence the sum of their inverse-power contributions has law . In particular two independent unit-rate inverse-square sums add to a variable with law .

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