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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2007 ii Paper 2 25J b Solution by
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Convergence in probability supplies a subsequence converging almost surely to : choose it so , then apply the first Borel-Cantelli lemma. For each fixed , the tail of this subsequence lies in , and its almost sure limit is . Thus has a version measurable with respect to the completed tail sigma-field of the independent sequence.
By Kolmogorov's zero–one law, every event in that tail sigma-field has probability zero or one. Consequently for every rational . Since is a finite real random variable, its distribution function has limits zero and one at the two infinities; monotonicity then identifies a single threshold with . Hence is almost surely constant. Completion only adds null events and does not alter the zero-one conclusion.
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