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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 iii Paper 28 3 b Solution by
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Let swap coordinate blocks and , fixing all other coordinates. The symmetric law makes measure preserving, and invariance of the event gives pointwise. Put .
Conditional expectation transforms covariantly under this block swap:To check it, the left side is -measurable, and for the change of variables by sends its defining integral to the conditional-expectation identity on , with . Thus the two versions agree. Measure preservation now givesThis is the first requested estimate.
The L1 contraction of conditional expectation follows from the pointwise bound : take expectations to get . Applied to a difference, it makes conditional expectation a contraction between any two integrable inputs.
Let . Since , is -measurable. HenceCombining this with the other given approximation bound yieldsThe left side does not depend on , and was arbitrary. It is therefore zero. For a -measurable version , the event belongs to and satisfiesThis proves that exchangeable invariant events are tail events modulo null sets. It does not assert literal pointwise equality of the two events or sigma-algebras before completing them with null sets.
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