Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 iii Paper 209 2 d Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
Write for the squared integral norm in question. The scaling property of the Fourier transform gives , which vanishes outside . Also . The condition does not imply , because need not be nonnegative.
Part (b), now for observations of , gives . Apply the Tonelli theorem to this nonnegative integrand, use the bound on , and change variables :The characteristic function is continuous and nonzero on the compact interval of integration, so for every . The Markov inequality gives, for every ,Consequently , including for any deterministic bandwidth sequence . The stochastic order follows directly from this uniform probability bound. Independence of and gives , explaining why division by is the Fourier deconvolution operation.