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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2015 iii Paper 29 6 ii Solution by
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Construct a rate- Poisson process, for , from independent waiting times with exponential distribution . Put , , and . The strong law of large numbers gives , so there are only finitely many arrivals on each finite interval. Consequently the counting paths are càdlàg, and almost surely.
At any deterministic time , the memorylessness of the exponential distribution says that the residual waiting time has again exponential distribution and is independent of the observed history. Subsequent waiting times are fresh independent copies. Thus the Poisson process restarts independently at , proving independent increments and stationary increments. Integrating the joint waiting-time densities over givesso its time values have the expected Poisson distribution.
For ,Together with stationary increments, this gives stochastic continuity at every time, from either side where applicable. All the Lévy process requirements hold, andFor , the identically zero process gives the degenerate case.
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