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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2013 iii Paper 24 5 b Solution by
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Let be the interpolation in part (a). The operationis continuous, since . By the Donsker invariance principle and the continuous mapping theorem,The exact trapezoidal integral of the linear interpolation isTherefore the statistic in question differs from by . Using independence, zero means, and unit variances givesThis error tends to zero in , hence in probability. The Slutsky theorem now proves the integrated random-walk limit:The limiting law can also be made explicit. The time integral is a Gaussian random variable, as a mean-square limit of linear combinations of a Gaussian process. It is centered, and the covariance identity givesThus the terminal value of integrated Brownian motion here has law .
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