Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 iii Paper 350 3 c Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
Choose the common dominating probability measure and let , be the Radon-Nikodym derivatives. The assumed second moments imply first-moment integrability by the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. Since is a separable Banach space, the measurable is a strongly measurable function, and both expected values exist as Bochner integrals.
The difference of these Bochner integrals satisfiesThe first inequality is the norm bound for a Bochner integral, and the second is the scalar Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. Since , the first factor is at mostWith the Hellinger distance convention of the original PDF, the second factor is . Multiplication proves the Hellinger bound for differences of expectations:The proof uses only the two laws and their common dominating measure; no absolute continuity of measures assumption between and is needed.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 iii Paper 326 3 3 a Solution 2026-09-29
TakeThis is a finite measure, hence a sigma-finite measure. If , nonnegativity gives , so both and are absolutely continuous with respect to .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 iii Paper 202 5 d Solution 2026-09-28
Let be the first exit from . On that compact interval the drift is bounded. The Girsanov theorem therefore gives, through every fixed time , a probability measure equivalent to the original one under which the stopped process has Brownian increments before .
If has Lebesgue measure zero, the normal distribution of Brownian motion givesSince , countable subadditivity gives . Thus the killed law at time is absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue measure on .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ii Paper 2 23F a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
For a measurable set , definewhere is its indicator function. This is finite because has finite measure and hence . If the sets are pairwise disjoint and , thenThe continuity of the positive linear functional therefore givesso is a measure by countable additivity. Moreover, a set of zero Lebesgue measure has zero indicator in , so is absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue measure.
The Radon-Nikodym theorem now supplies a measurable function such thatConsequently, first for nonnegative simple functions and then, by approximation by nonnegative simple functions, for every nonnegative ,Applying the stated characterization of the Lp norm to shows that and . The Holder inequality makes continuous on , while bounded simple functions form a dense subset; henceThis is the positive functional representation on Lp.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 202 5 a i Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
The relation is an instance of absolute continuity of measures: it means that every -null event is also -null,By the Radon-Nikodym theorem, this is equivalent to the existence of a nonnegative Radon-Nikodym derivative whose -expectation is one.
Uniform convergence on compacts in probability under an absolutely continuous measure change 2026-10-05
If , uniform convergence on compacts in probability under implies the same convergence under . Indeed, let be the Radon-Nikodym derivative. For every event ,Integrability makes the second term arbitrarily small for large . Thus implies ; apply this to each event where the supremum on exceeds a fixed tolerance. Only absolute continuity of measures is needed, not equivalence.
Usual conditions for a filtration Created 2026-10-05 Updated 2026-10-06
The usual conditions are completeness and right continuity of a filtration: contains all subsets of null events in the ambient probability space, and . They allow the standard continuous-time martingale, stopping time and stochastic integration theorems to be used without repeated augmentation qualifications. An absolute continuity of measures change preserves old null sets but can introduce new ones; the usual completion under the new measure may therefore be understood when needed.