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A standard Brownian motion starts at zero, has continuous sample paths, independent stationary increments, and $W_t-W_s\sim \mathcal{N}(0,t-s)$ for $t>s$. The Brownian reflection principle reflects the increments after the first hitting time of a positive level and preserves Brownian law, by symmetry and the strong Markov property.

Reflect after the first hit of $x$. On the event that this hit occurs by time one, $W_1$ changes to $2x-W_1$. This is a measure-preserving involution taking the event $W_1\le x-y$ to $W_1\ge x+y$, proving the specified identity for $x>0,y\ge 0$; the $x=0$ case follows by symmetry. With $y=0$, the maximum event splits, up to zero-probability equality, into reflected equal halves. ThusHence $M$ and $|W_1|$ have the same distribution, and $M>0$ almost surely.

For the ratio we need the joint law, not just these marginals. For $w<m$, the reflected identity gives $\mathbb{P}(M\ge m,W_1\le w)=\mathbb{P}(W_1\ge 2m-w)$. Differentiating yieldswhere $\phi$ is the standard normal density. Put $w=rm$; the change of variables has Jacobian $m$. Therefore, for $r<1$,The density is zero for $r>1$ and has no atom at one. Its integral on $(-\infty ,1)$ is one; negative ratios have no lower bound.

This gives the complete Brownian terminal-to-maximum ratio law.

For $1\le x\le n$, conditional binomial probabilities can be writtenThis zero-truncated binomial distribution is an exponential family. Write $q=1-\pi$ and $s=1-q^n$. The cumulant identities $\mathbb{E}X=k^{\prime }$ and $\mathrm{Var}X=k^{\prime \prime }$, with $d\pi /d\varphi =\pi q$, giveThe maximum likelihood estimation score equation is $X=k^{\prime }(\hat{\varphi })$, orFor $n\ge 2$ and $1<X<n$ the increasing mean function gives a unique interior solution; $X=1$ and $X=n$ instead give limiting estimates zero and one, respectively. If $n=1$, $X=1$ always and the parameter is unidentifiable.

For fixed $\pi \in (0,1)$ and large $n$, the excluded event has exponentially small probability $(1-\pi {)}^n$. Conditioning therefore does not change the central-limit approximation for $X/n$, and the score equation differs from $\hat{\Pi }=X/n$ only by an exponentially small correction with high probability. The binomial central limit theorem consequently givesThe suggested inference after observing one is incorrect for the stated sampling model. Its conditional likelihood is the unconditioned likelihood divided by $1-(1-\Pi {)}^n$, a parameter-dependent factor. They are not proportional likelihoods: the unconditioned estimate is $1/n$, whereas the conditional likelihood for $X=1$ is maximized as $\Pi \downarrow 0$ for $n>1$. Knowing that the observed value is positive does not remove the selection mechanism from the model.

A ring of sets is closed under finite unions and differences. A premeasure on it is a nonnegative set function with value zero on the empty set that is countably additive whenever a disjoint union remains in the ring. Caratheodory extension theorem extends a premeasure to a measure on the generated sigma-algebra; this extension is unique there when the premeasure is sigma-finite. It is obtained from the outer measurewhose measurable sets satisfy ${\mu }^{\ast }(E)={\mu }^{\ast }(E\cap B)+{\mu }^{\ast }(E\setminus B)$ for every $E$. The resulting complete measurable sigma-algebra contains the sigma-algebra generated by the ring.

For the required continuity, let $B_n\downarrow \varnothing$ in the bounded-interval ring and fix $ϵ>0$. From each component $(a,b]$ of $B_n$, remove a sufficiently short initial piece and retain the compact interval $[a+\delta ,b]$. The union is a compact set $K_n\subset B_n$, and $B_n\setminus K_n$ is covered by a ring set $C_n$ of total length less than $ϵ2^{-n}$; one can take unions of $(a,a+\delta ]$. We do not incorrectly assume the compact sets themselves belong to the half-open interval ring.

Since ${\bigcap }_n{K}_n=\varnothing$ and $K_1$ is compact, the finite intersection property supplies $N$ with ${\bigcap }_{n=1}^N{K}_n=\varnothing$. For $x\in B_N$, membership in all earlier $B_n$ means some failure of membership in $K_n$ puts $x$ in $C_n$. ThusFinite additivity gives the finite subadditivity used here. Monotonicity now proves $\mu (B_n)\to 0$.

If a disjoint union $A={\bigcup }_j{A}_j$ lies in the ring, its remainders $A\setminus {\bigcup }_{j\le n}{A}_j$ decrease to the empty set. The proved continuity and finite additivity imply countable additivity, so the length function is a premeasure. The ring generates the Borel sigma-algebra and covers the line by bounded intervals of finite measure. Its unique sigma-finite extension is Borel length measure; its completion is Lebesgue measure.

Put $A=\wp (w)$ and $B={\wp }^{\prime }(w)$. At $z=0$, the first column has $\wp (z)=z^{-2}+O(z^2)$ and ${\wp }^{\prime }(z)=-2z^{-3}+O(z)$, whereas the third has $\wp (-z-w)=A+Bz+O(z^2)$. Expanding the determinant, the coefficient multiplying ${\wp }^{\prime }(z)$ is $\wp (-z-w)-A=O(z)$, so the apparent cubic pole reduces to order at most two. The only other possible pole is at $z=-w$, and $f(-z-w)=-f(z)$ gives the same bound there. Thus, if $f$ is nonconstant, its total pole order and valency are at most four. A constant case is handled by finding a zero below.

Column coincidences give zeros at $z=w$, at $z=-2w$, and at the four solutions of $2z=-w$ on $\mathbb{C}/\Lambda$. The latter are distinct because $\Lambda /2\Lambda$ has four elements. If $3w\notin \Lambda$, the first two points are distinct from each other and from these four solutions.

One exceptional pole issue needs care: when $2w\in \Lambda$, the first two prospective zeros are $w$ and $0$, the possible pole locations. They are actually removable zeros. Here $B=0$, and, with $C={\wp }^{\prime \prime }(w)$, evenness about this half-period givesThe determinant becomes $(A-\wp (z)){\wp }^{\prime }(-z-w)+{\wp }^{\prime }(z)(\wp (-z-w)-A)$. Its two $C/z$ contributions cancel and it is $O(z)$; reflection transfers this conclusion to $z=w$. Thus there really are six distinct zeros also in this case.

If $3w\in \Lambda$ but $w\notin \Lambda$, then $z=w=-2w$ is one of the four solutions of $2z=-w$. All three columns coincide there, with no pole. Both the determinant and its first derivative vanish, since each term in the derivative still has two identical columns. Hence there are four distinct zeros, at least one multiple, giving at least five zeros counted with multiplicity.

For a nonconstant elliptic function, zeros and poles in a period parallelogram have equal total multiplicity, by the argument principle. Either count contradicts total pole order at most four. A constant with a zero is zero, soThis is the elliptic collinearity determinant. Consequently, when $z_1+z_2+z_3\in \Lambda$, the three vectors $(1,\wp (z_i),{\wp }^{\prime }(z_i))$ have zero determinant. The three points on the Weierstrass equation of an elliptic curve are therefore collinear in ${\mathbb{C}}^2$.

The Banach-Steinhaus theorem, or Uniform boundedness principle, states that for a family $\mathcal{T}$ of bounded linear operators from a Banach space $E$ to a normed space $F$, pointwise boundedness ${\sup }_{T\in \mathcal{T}}\Vert Tx\Vert <\infty$ for every $x\in E$ implies ${\sup }_T\Vert T\Vert <\infty$.

For its proof let $E_n=\{x:{\sup }_T\Vert Tx\Vert \le n\}$. These are closed and their union is $E$. The Baire category theorem gives an $E_n$ with nonempty interior, containing a ball $B(x_0,r)$. For $\Vert h\Vert <r$, both $x_0$ and $x_0+h$ belong to $E_n$, so $\Vert Th\Vert \le 2n$ for every $T$. Scaling $h$ and taking a limit at the ball boundary gives $\Vert T\Vert \le 2n/r$, proving the theorem. The target need not be complete.

For the asserted bounded-set criterion, use the Banach space $X^{\ast }$, which is complete even if $X$ is not. Each $x\in S$ defines the bounded linear evaluation functional $J_x(f)=f(x)$ on $X^{\ast }$. The given hypothesis says this family is pointwise bounded. The Hahn-Banach theorem consequence in the question gives $\Vert J_x\Vert =\Vert x\Vert$, and uniform boundedness yieldsThis proves that weak boundedness implies norm boundedness; the two forms of boundedness coincide for a subset of a normed space.

Finally suppose the two continuous duals for $\Vert \cdot {\Vert }_1$ and $\Vert \cdot {\Vert }_2$ were equal as sets. The unit ball for norm two is bounded under every common continuous functional, using its norm-two continuity. Applying the preceding criterion in norm one bounds that ball in norm one; scaling gives $\Vert v{\Vert }_1\le C\Vert v{\Vert }_2$. Reversing the roles gives $\Vert v{\Vert }_2\le C^{\prime }\Vert v{\Vert }_1$. The norms would be equivalent. Contrapositively, inequivalent norms have different continuous duals, supplying a linear functional continuous for one and discontinuous for the other.

The path lifting theorem says that a path $\gamma :[0,1]\to X$ has a unique lift through a covering map once its initial point in the fiber is chosen. The homotopy lifting lemma says that a homotopy $H:Z\times [0,1]\to X$, with a continuous lift specified at time zero, has a unique continuous lifted homotopy. In particular a homotopy of paths with fixed endpoints preserves the endpoint of a chosen lift, since that endpoint varies continuously in a discrete fiber.

Choose $x_0\in X$ and $y_i\in p_i^{-1}(x_0)$. For $y\in Y_1$, choose a path $\gamma$ in $Y_1$ from $y_1$ to $y$, and let $F(y)$ be the endpoint of the lift of $p_1\gamma$ to $Y_2$ starting at $y_2$. Two choices of $\gamma$ are homotopic relative endpoints because $Y_1$ is simply connected. Project that homotopy and apply homotopy lifting: the lifted endpoint remains fixed. Thus $F$ is well-defined and $p_{2}F=p_1$.

To prove continuity without invoking covering-space classification, choose a path-connected open neighborhood $U$ of $p_1(y)$ evenly covered by both maps. Local path connectedness of $X$ permits this choice. On the sheet of $p_1^{-1}(U)$ containing $y$, append paths within that sheet to the chosen path to $y$. Path-lift uniqueness givesthere, for the sheet $V_2$ containing $F(y)$. Hence $F$ is a local homeomorphism and is continuous. Construct $G:Y_2\to Y_1$ in the same way with the basepoints reversed. Lifting the very same projected paths proves $GF$ and $FG$ fix every point. Therefore

Use the final printed restriction that $m$ is even. Square-freeness then gives $m\equiv 2(\mathrm{mod}4)$, and the integer ring is ${\mathcal{O}}_K=\mathbb{Z}[\sqrt{-m}]$. An integer solution has $x>0$. If $y$ were even, $y^2+m$ would have 2-adic valuation one, impossible for a cube; hence $x,y$ are odd. For an odd prime $p\mid m$, $p\mid y$ would similarly give valuation one. Thus $\gcd (y,m)=1$.

The ideals generated by $y+\sqrt{-m}$ and $y-\sqrt{-m}$ are coprime. Any common prime ideal divides their sum and difference and therefore lies above a rational prime dividing $2m$ and $y$. The odd possibilities have just been excluded; above two, $\sqrt{-m}$ is zero modulo the ramified prime while $y$ is odd, so neither factor is divisible by it. Unique factorization of ideals in a number field innow yields $(y+\sqrt{-m})={\mathfrak{a}}^3$. Since the class number is coprime to three, the ideal class of $\mathfrak{a}$ is trivial. The ideal is principal, and the only units for this imaginary quadratic field with $m\ge 5$ are $\pm 1$, which can be absorbed into a cube. HenceComparing coefficients of $\sqrt{-m}$ givesThus $v=1$ with $3u^2=m+1$, or $v=-1$ with $3u^2=m-1$. Both alternatives cannot occur, since $m-1$ and $m+1$ cannot both be divisible by three. The eligible alternative permits at most the two choices $u=\pm \sqrt{(m\pm 1)/3}$, and thenConsequently there are at most two integer solutions $(x,y)$, which, when present, have the same $x$ and opposite $y$. The proof uses the evenness assumption; it does not silently claim the same coprimality argument for every odd $m$.