Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2006/ii/paper-1/25j/c/solution

The first event is a tail event: for any it equals , measurable in .
Convergence of the partial sums is also a tail event. For any , subtracting the finite real sum shows that convergence is equivalent to convergence of . The Cauchy criterion expresses the latter using countable unions and intersections of inequalities involving these tail sums, so it belongs to every tail sigma-algebra.
The event that the partial sums are nonpositive infinitely often is not generally a tail event. For a counterexample let take values and one on a two-point probability space, each with positive probability, and let for . The event is then , while is trivial. The variables in this example are even independent. Its status can be different for particular sequences, but it is not tail-measurable in general.

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