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Conditional Borel-Cantelli lemma

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For events Bn​∈Fn​, put pn​=P(Bn​∣Fn−1​). Then ∑n​1Bn​​<∞ almost surely on {∑n​pn​<∞}, while ∑n​1Bn​​=∞ almost surely on {∑n​pn​=∞}. The proof applies the Martingale convergence theorem to compensated sums ∑j≤n​(1Bj​​−pj​) and uses Kronecker lemma in the divergent case.

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