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The Kruskal-Katona theorem states that a colexicographic initial segment minimizes the lower shadow of a uniform set family of prescribed size. Its numerical form is as follows. For $m>0$, write the unique combinatorial number system expansionEvery $\mathcal{F}\subseteq [n{]}^{(r)}$ of size $m$ satisfiesThe empty family has empty lower shadow. Equality is attained by the first $m$ $r$-sets in colexicographic order, where the largest differing element belongs to the later set. Iterating the Kruskal-Katona theorem shows that the same colexicographic initial segment minimizes every iterated lower shadow.

For $1\le r<n/2$, the Erdős-Ko-Rado theorem givesfor an intersecting family $\mathcal{F}\subseteq [n{]}^{(r)}$. All $r$-sets containing one prescribed point show that the bound is sharp.

For the proof from the Kruskal-Katona theorem, put $k=n-r$ and form the complement family $\mathcal{G}=\{[n]\setminus A:A\in \mathcal{F}\}\subseteq [n{]}^{(k)}$. Let $\mathcal{S}$ be its rank-$r$ iterated lower shadow. No member $B\in \mathcal{F}$ belongs to $\mathcal{S}$: containment in $[n]\setminus A$ would give $A\cap B=\varnothing$, impossible for an intersecting family of nonempty sets. HenceSuppose $|\mathcal{F}|>\left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{n-1}{r-1}\right)=\left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{n-1}{k}\right)$. The first $\left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{n-1}{k}\right)$ members of the colexicographic order are all $k$-sets of $[n-1]$. Their rank-$r$ iterated lower shadow is all $r$-sets of $[n-1]$, since $r<k$. The next $k$-set contains $n$ and has an $r$-subset containing $n$, so taking even one more member strictly enlarges that iterated lower shadow. By the iterated Kruskal-Katona theorem, $|\mathcal{S}|>\left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{n-1}{r}\right)$. Together with $|\mathcal{F}|>\left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{n-1}{r-1}\right)$ this contradicts Pascal's identity and the preceding inequality. This proves the Erdős-Ko-Rado theorem.

For the Katona circle method proof, fix a cyclic ordering of $[n]$. A cyclic interval of length $r$ is specified by its final position. If no such interval belongs to $\mathcal{F}$, the bound below is automatic. Otherwise rotate one selected interval so that it ends at position $n$, and thus occupies positions $n-r+1,\dots ,n$. Intervals ending at positions $r,\dots ,n-r$ are disjoint from it and cannot be selected. Among the remaining endpoints, pair $j$ with $n-r+j$ for $1\le j\le r-1$. The corresponding intervals are disjoint when $n\ge 2r$, so at most one interval per pair is selected. Together with the interval ending at $n$, this gives the cyclic interval intersection bound of $r$ selected intervals.

Choose a uniformly random permutation and read its positions cyclically. A fixed $r$-set is a cyclic interval with probability $n/\left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{n}{r}\right)$: each cyclic position gives a uniformly distributed $r$-set, and for $r<n$ the $n$ intervals are distinct. Summing over $\mathcal{F}$, the expected value of the number of selected intervals is $n|\mathcal{F}|/(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{n}{r})$. The cyclic interval intersection bound makes this at most $r$, giving $|\mathcal{F}|\le (r/n)\left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{n}{r}\right)=\left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{n-1}{r-1}\right)$.

Finally apply the Katona circle method to an arbitrary antichain $\mathcal{A}$. If it contains $\varnothing$ or $[n]$, it has exactly one member and the LYM inequality holds with equality. Otherwise all its members have sizes $1,\dots ,n-1$. In a fixed cyclic ordering, the cyclic intervals sharing a final position form a nested chain as their lengths increase. At most one of them can belong to the antichain. Summing over the $n$ final positions proves the cyclic interval antichain bound of $n$ intervals. Taking the expected value over a uniformly random permutation givesAfter division by $n$, this is the LYM inequality proved by cyclic intervals. The case $n=0$ consists only of the empty set and is immediate.

Let $G(z)={\sum }_{n\ge 0}{p}_n{z}^n$ be the probability generating function. For $|z|<1$ the series can be differentiated term by term: $\sum n{p}_n|z{|}^{n-1}$ is finite, even without a finite claim-count expected value. Multiply the Panjer claim-count class recurrence by $n$ and put $m=n-1$. ThenHenceThis argument is valid throughout the open unit disk. Values at boundary points may be obtained by a limit when the required derivatives exist; one need not assume $\mathbb{E}N<\infty$ to establish the identity.

For quota share reinsurance the insurer retains the same fraction of each claim, soThe annual retained loss is consequently $T_I=\alpha T$. Each transformed risk severity has probability density function $f_i(y/\alpha )/\alpha$ for $y>0$. The mixed transformed severity, with the same weights ${\lambda }_i/({\lambda }_1+{\lambda }_2)$, still gives a compound Poisson distribution. Scaling the expected value and variance givesThis agrees with the general retained-claim formulas because $\mathbb{E}g(X_i)=\alpha {\mu }_i$ and $\mathbb{E}[g(X_i{)}^2]={\alpha }^2({\sigma }_i^2+{\mu }_i^2)$.

For an aggregate claims model, let $X$ denote one claim size, with expected value $\mu$ and variance ${\sigma }^2$. The total $S$ is zero when the claim count is zero. Given $N=n$, independence givesThe law of total expectation and law of total variance, together with $\mathbb{E}N=\mathrm{Var}(N)=\lambda$ for a Poisson distribution, implyThe raw second moment appears because the random count itself contributes $\lambda {\mu }^2$ to the variance.

Conditional on $N$, the moment-generating function of the sum is $M_X(t{)}^N$. Averaging with the Poisson distribution therefore gives the compound Poisson distribution transformThis is valid wherever $M_X(t)$ is finite. Finite first and second moments alone do not ensure positive exponential moments; for positive claims the corresponding Laplace transform always exists.

For the independent portfolios put $\Lambda ={\lambda }_1+{\lambda }_2>0$ and $w_i={\lambda }_i/\Lambda$. Their Poisson distribution counts add to a Poisson distribution with parameter $\Lambda$. By Poisson-multinomial conditioning, conditional on the total count $n$ the first risk count has a binomial distribution with parameters $n,w_1$, and the second is the remaining count. Thus one can generate the same total loss by drawing $n$ independent risk labels with these weights, then drawing each claim from its label's law. The merged severity has mixture distributionIt follows that $T$ has a compound Poisson distribution with count parameter $\Lambda$ and this severity law. This is the fixed-year version of Poisson superposition of insurance portfolios. Its expected value and variance areAlternatively, multiplying the two independent aggregate Laplace transforms yields $\exp \{\Lambda (w_1{M}_{X_1}(t)+w_2{M}_{X_2}(t)-1)\}$ wherever finite, confirming the same compound Poisson distribution.

For the retained compound Poisson aggregate under per-claim reinsurance, replace each claim $X$ by its retained payment $g(X)$. Assume the retention is measurable, with $0\le g(x)\le x$ as usual. The count parameter remains $\Lambda$, and the severity law is the pushforward measure of the mixture severity under $g$. Thus the retained compound Poisson aggregate $T_I$ has a compound Poisson distribution with that transformed severity andIts moment-generating function is $\exp \{{\sum }_i{\lambda }_i(M_{g(X_i)}(t)-1)\}$ on its finite domain. For a general retention $g$, zero retained payments can occur and are allowed as compound-Poisson marks; they may equivalently be removed by Poisson thinning. The two specified contracts retain strictly positive payments for strictly positive claims.

In the classical risk model write $U(t)=u+ct-{\sum }_{j=1}^{N(t)}{X}_j$, where the Poisson process $N(t)$ has rate $\lambda$ and is independent of the claim sizes. Define the ruin time and ultimate ultimate ruin probability byThe relative safety loading is $\rho =c/(\lambda \mu )-1>0$, so $c=(1+\rho )\lambda \mu$. The adjustment coefficient is the nonzero positive solutionExistence and uniqueness follow from the secant-slope existence criterion for an adjustment coefficient. Explicitly, $\lambda (M(r)-1)-cr$ has derivative $\lambda \mu -c<0$ at zero and is strictly convex for positive claims. The assumed divergence of $M$ makes it cross zero once at a positive $R<r_{\infty }$. When $r_{\infty }=\infty$, an exponential lower bound from any positive tail event shows that $M(r)/r\to \infty$. In particular $R$ is inside the finite-transform domain, not at its endpoint.

Put $\overline{F}=1-F$. Replacing $\phi =1-\psi$ in the survival renewal equation for a classical risk model yieldsBy the tail integral formula for moments, $\mu ={\int }_0^{\infty }\overline{F}(x)dx$. Therefore this is the defective renewal equationThe original kernel has mass $\lambda \mu /c=1/(1+\rho )<1$. For the exponential tilt of the ruin renewal kernel, setMultiplying by $e^{Ru}$ gives the required proper renewal equationTo verify that this is a probability renewal kernel, Tonelli theorem gives, for $r>0$ in the finite-transform domain,The adjustment coefficient equation consequently implies ${\int }_0^{\infty }{k}_R(x)dx=1$. Its expected value isIt is finite because $R$ is interior to the finite-transform domain and is positive because the strict convex crossing has derivative $\lambda M^{\prime }(R)-c>0$.

We quote the key renewal theorem in the following form: for a nonarithmetic distribution $K$ of positive increments with finite positive mean $m$, and a directly Riemann integrable nonnegative function $h$, the locally bounded solution of $z=h+z\ast K$ satisfies $z(u)\to m^{-1}{\int }_0^{\infty }h$. It has renewal representation $z=h\ast {\sum }_{j\ge 0}{K}^{\ast j}$; this follows by iterating the equation, since the probability that arbitrarily many positive increments have sum at most a fixed $u$ tends to zero.

Here $K_R(dx)=k_R(x)dx$ is absolutely continuous, and hence nonarithmetic distribution, even if the original claim law has atoms. The function $h_R$ is continuous. Choose $\delta >0$ with $M(R+\delta )<\infty$. The Markov inequality gives $\overline{F}(x)\le M(R+\delta )e^{-(R+\delta )x}$, and hence $h_R(u)\le C_{\delta }{e}^{-\delta u}$. Continuity on compact intervals and this exponential bound make the upper Riemann sums finite with uniformly vanishing tails, proving direct Riemann integrability.

A further application of Tonelli theorem evaluates the forcing integral:All hypotheses of the key renewal theorem are now checked, so the interior adjustment coefficient ruin prefactor isThis proves the requested Cramér–Lundberg ruin asymptotic, including its constant.

For the two-component hyperexponential distribution, conditioning on the chosen exponential component givesIts moment-generating function and derivative areThe moment-generating function diverges at $1/2$, while the derivative of the adjustment equation at zero is negative. Strict convexity therefore places its unique positive adjustment coefficient inThe adjustment equation, divided by $R$, becomesUsing this identity to subtract $(1+\rho )\mu$ from $M^{\prime }(R)$ givesThus the asymptotic constant in terms of $\rho$ and $R$ isThe denominator is positive on the identified domain. If desired, $R$ is the smaller root of $6(1+\rho )R^2-(5+9\rho )R+3\rho =0$; the other algebraic root lies outside the positive finite-transform interval and is not an adjustment coefficient.

Conditional on $\lambda$, a Poisson distribution has both conditional expectation and conditional variance equal to $\lambda$. For the uniform distribution on $(1,3)$,Thus $K=v/a=6$ and the one-year credibility factor is $Z_1=1/7$. With the observed count equal to one, the Bühlmann credibility estimate of the next year's conditional claim expected value isThe estimate gives relatively little weight to one year because the expected process variance is six times the variance of hypothetical means.

Under quadratic loss, the Bayes estimator under squared error loss of the latent mean $\lambda$ is its posterior mean. For the Poisson-uniform posterior mean, the prior distribution has density $1/2$ on $(1,3)$ and the one-count Poisson distribution likelihood is $\lambda e^{-\lambda }$. Consequently the Bayesian posterior density is proportional to $\lambda e^{-\lambda }$ on that interval, with normalizing integral ${\int }_1^3\lambda e^{-\lambda }d\lambda$.

By conditional independence, $\mathbb{E}(X_2\mid \lambda ,X_1)=\lambda$, so the law of total expectation makes the posterior predictive expected value equal to this same posterior mean. It isThe required antiderivatives are $-(\lambda +1)e^{-\lambda }$ and $-({\lambda }^2+2\lambda +2)e^{-\lambda }$. Evaluating at the two endpoints givesThis estimate differs from $13/7$: the Bühlmann credibility estimate is an optimal affine rule, while the Bayes estimator under squared error loss optimizes over all rules and uses the truncated uniform prior through its exact Bayesian posterior.

The exact normalizing sum can be expensive on a large loss network. The Erlang fixed point approximation replaces joint resource acceptance by a product of marginal acceptances. Here consider unit requirements $A_{jr}\in \{0,1\}$, positive integer capacities and finitely many fixed routes. Let $B_j$ be resource blocking and $q_j=1-B_j$. A route-$r$ call contributes to the offered traffic at resource $j$ after surviving the other resources on its route. Thus the reduced-load approximation iswhere the Erlang B formula isThe estimated route acceptance is ${\prod }_{j\in r}{q}_j$. This is an independence approximation, not an alternative exact factorization of the stationary law in part (i).

Uniqueness follows from a convex potential for the Erlang fixed point. For a single resource, the carried load of an Erlang loss resource is $m_C(v)=v[1-E(C,v)]$. It increases strictly from zero to $C$ as $v$ increases: differentiating the expected value of its upper-truncated Poisson distribution with respect to $\log v$ gives the strictly positive occupancy variance. Blocking also increases strictly, as is evident on dividing the Erlang denominator by its final term.

Use $p_j=-\log q_j\ge 0$. Let $v_C(p)$ be the unique offered load with $1-E(C,v_C(p))=e^{-p}$, and set $g_C(p)=v_C(p)e^{-p}=m_C(v_C(p))$, with $g_C(0)=0$. This function is strictly increasing and tends to $C$. DefineEach exponential term is a convex function, and each integral is a strictly convex function because its derivative is strictly increasing. Therefore $F$ is a strictly convex function. It is also a coercive function on the nonnegative orthant: an unbounded coordinate makes its integral grow asymptotically linearly with positive slope $C_j$. A unique minimizer exists.

If resource $j$ carries some positive offered route, its inward derivative at $p_j=0$ is negative, so its minimizing coordinate is positive. At such a coordinate the first-order equation isDividing by $q_j$ gives precisely $v_j={\sum }_{r:j\in r}{\rho }_r{\prod }_{k\in r\setminus \{j\}}{q}_k$. A resource with no positive offered route uniquely has $p_j=0$, hence $B_j=0$. Thus the minimizer and the fixed point coincide, proving existence and uniqueness of the Erlang fixed point for fixed unit-resource routing. This does not by itself guarantee convergence of every simultaneous substitution algorithm; the uniqueness claim concerns the solution of the equations.

A loss network models calls that need several resources simultaneously and are rejected, rather than queued, when insufficient capacity remains. Take finite resource and route sets. Let $A_{jr}\ge 0$ be the integer amount of resource $j$ required by a route-$r$ call, $C_j$ its capacity, andUnder fixed routing, each arriving call has a predetermined resource requirement. Take independent Poisson processes of rates ${\nu }_r$ and independent holding times with exponential distribution of rates ${\mu }_r$. A feasible arrival changes $n$ to $n+e_r$ at rate ${\nu }_r$; a departure changes it to $n-e_r$ at rate ${\mu }_r{n}_r$. Put ${\rho }_r={\nu }_r/{\mu }_r$ and assume each route uses a finite positive-capacity resource, so the state space is finite.

The product-form stationary distribution of a loss network isFor any feasible adjacent pair,These detailed balance equations prove stationarity and make the process a reversible Markov chain. Equivalently, Independent random variables with Poisson distributions of means ${\rho }_r$ are conditioned on satisfying the joint capacity constraints. The conditioning makes resource occupancies dependent even though the unconstrained counts are independent.

By Poisson arrivals see time averages, a route-$r$ arrival sees acceptance probability $G(C-A_r)/G(C)$, interpreting the numerator as zero for a negative capacity. Hence its blocking probability is $1-G(C-A_r)/G(C)$ and the expected value of its number in service is ${\rho }_{r}G(C-A_r)/G(C)$. This connects a stationary occupancy law to observable rejection and carried traffic.

The insensitivity of loss networks extends this occupancy formula to independent general holding-time distributions with the same expected values, under the usual fixed resource requirements and admission rule. Counts alone then need not be a Markov chain; residual holding times belong in a Markov description. The invariant occupancy formula survives. This is useful because detailed call-duration distributions can be difficult to estimate, while their means are much easier to measure.

Take expected values in the sharp power-call inequality. If $M(1+\epsilon )$ is finite, then for every $K\ge 0$,The bound is independent of the strike, soCombined with the previous part, this relates finite moments to polynomial decay of expected European call option payoffs, while retaining the distinction at the moment threshold.

Let $H$ replicate ${\xi }_1$, so ${\xi }_1=H^T{P}_1$. The positive-definite Gram matrix $Q=\mathbb{E}[P_1{P}_1^T]$ is invertible. Multiplication by $P_1$ and taking expected values giveAll quantities are integrable: the finite-atom representation from completeness gives finite terminal values, and the matrix $Q$ has finite entries. Positive definiteness also guarantees uniqueness of holdings, since $h^T{P}_1=0$ would imply $h^{T}Qh=0$ and hence $h=0$.

Thus the replication cost isConsequently the one-period Gram-matrix replication formula isThe symmetry of $Q^{-1}$ makes the displayed orientations consistent. Positivity of this $Z$ would require an additional no-arbitrage condition; positive definiteness of the payoff Gram matrix alone proves the representation and uniqueness, not positivity of prices across states.

Let $v_j$ be the optimal expected value before seeing the next offer when $j$ rounds remain. With one round left the offer must be accepted, so $v_1=1/2$. For $j>1$, observing $x$ gives a choice between $x$ now and the continuation value $v_{j-1}$. Independence of future uniform distributions makes that continuation value independent of past offers. Thus the uniform-offer stopping recursion isIt gives $v_2=5/8$ and $v_3=89/128$. The Snell envelope rule therefore yields the explicit strategyOnly rounds actually reached are played. At a threshold the two actions have identical continuation expected value; either convention is optimal, and exact equality has probability zero. The optimal expected payout before the first offer is

Let the independent unit-step vectors be $V_j=(\cos {\Theta }_j,\sin {\Theta }_j)$. The uniform distribution of each angle gives $\mathbb{E}[V_j]=0$, while $|V_j{|}^2=1$. With $S_n={\sum }_{j=1}^n{V}_j$, expand the squared Euclidean norm:By independence, each cross term equals $\mathbb{E}[V_i]\cdot \mathbb{E}[V_j]=0$. HenceThis mean-square displacement of an isotropic planar random walk grows linearly even though the expected value of the displacement vector remains zero.

Write the countable supports as $D_i$ and the marginal masses as $p_i(x_i)$. Independence gives joint mass ${\prod }_i{p}_i(x_i)$. Assuming finite expected values, absolute integrability is justified by Tonelli theorem:Consequently Fubini's theorem permits factorization of the signed sum, proving the expectation of a product of independent random variables:

The second claim holds as a general assertion with the additional hypothesis that the positive variables are integer-valued. For a nonnegative integer-valued $Z$, the pointwise identity $Z={\sum }_{m\ge 0}{1}_{\{Z>m\}}$ and Tonelli theorem give the tail-sum formulaIf each $X_i$ is integer-valued, their product is too. Apply this identity to each factor and to the product, then use independence:Under the literal broader meaning of a discrete random variable, the second claim is false. Two independent constants $X_1=X_2=3/2$ are positive and discrete, but the left side is $2\cdot 2=4$ and the right side is $3$. More generally the integer-indexed tail sum of a positive real-valued variable is $\mathbb{E}\lceil Z\rceil$, not $\mathbb{E}Z$. This is the integer-valued hypothesis in the tail-sum formula.

Use the natural filtration ${\mathcal{F}}_n=\sigma (X_1,\dots ,X_n)$. The first exit time is a stopping time. If $r\le x$, it is zero, so its expectation is already finite. Now assume $0<x<r$.

The positive-increment hypothesis gives a number $h>0$ with $\mathbb{P}(X_1>h)>0$. Choose an integer $m$ so large that $r/m<h$, and put $p=\mathbb{P}(X_1>r/m)>0$. A block of $m$ increments all exceeding $r/m$ has probability $p^m$. From any point still in $(0,r)$, that block forces an upper exit before the block ends.

By independence, conditional on ${\mathcal{F}}_{km}$ and survival to time $km$, the next block has this same probability. Thus the geometric tail bound from a uniform escape probability givesUsing the tail-sum formula for the expected value of a nonnegative integer-valued random variable,This is the random-walk exit bound from a positive-increment block. In particular, the exit occurs with probability one. The mean-zero assumption is not needed for this first bound.

The moment-generating function of a mixture distribution is the mixture of its component transforms, soFor the aggregate, positivity of every claim implies $S=0$ exactly when $N=0$. ChooseIf $q>0$, take $\tilde{N}$ to have the zero-truncated claim-count distribution, namely the conditional law of $N$ given $N>0$. ThenChoose this count independently of a fresh independent claim-size sequence and put $Z={\sum }_{i=1}^{\tilde{N}}{X}_i$. Its probability distribution is that of $S$ conditional on being positive. Thus the hurdle decomposition of a positive random sum givesand an independent Bernoulli random variable $B$ of success probability $q$ realizes $S\stackrel{d}{=}BZ$. This establishes the distributional representation, including that $Z$ is itself a positive random sum of independent claims. If $p=1$, the aggregate is identically zero; set $q=0$ and choose any positive $Z$, for example one claim. Conditioning the count on positivity is then unnecessary and would be undefined.

For the specified geometric distribution on the nonnegative integers,An exponential distribution of expected value $\mu$ has transform $M_X(r)=(1-\mu r{)}^{-1}$. Substitution yieldsHence $Z$ is exponential with rate $1/(2\mu )$ and expected value $2\mu$. This is the geometric sum of exponential variables with a rescaling of the claim mean. Identification can also use the uniqueness theorem for Laplace transforms of nonnegative random variables by taking $r\le 0$.

The resulting distribution function isIts jump of size $1/2$ at zero is important: the aggregate law is not a purely continuous exponential distribution.

Consider the secant slopeThe moment-generating function is continuous on the interior of its finite domain and has right derivative $M^{\prime }(0)=\mu$. Thus $H(r)\to \mu$ as $r\downarrow 0$. For every fixed positive claim amount $x$, the function $(e^{rx}-1)/r$ is strictly increasing in $r>0$: its derivative has numerator $e^{rx}(rx-1)+1>0$, since this numerator starts at zero and has derivative $rx{e}^{rx}$ as a function of $rx$. Taking expected values preserves the strict inequality. Therefore $H$ is continuous and strictly increasing. Equivalently, the strictly convex transform $M$ has strictly increasing secant slopes from the origin.

If $r_{\infty }<\infty$, the assumed blow-up of $M$ gives $H(r)\to \infty$. If $r_{\infty }=\infty$, choose $a>0$ with $d=\mathbb{P}(X_1\ge a)>0$. Such an $a$ exists because the claims are positive. Then $M(r)\ge d{e}^{ar}$, so again $H(r)\to \infty$. This exponential lower bound is needed at an infinite endpoint: mere divergence of $M$ would not, by itself, establish divergence of $M(r)/r$.

The target $(1+\theta )\mu$ strictly exceeds the limiting slope $\mu$. The intermediate value theorem and strict monotonicity therefore giveMultiplying by $R$ gives the defining adjustment coefficient equation. The zero root of the undivided equation is excluded. This is the secant-slope existence criterion for an adjustment coefficient.