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A causal square-integrable linear time series can be written $X_t=\mu +{\sum }_{j\ge 0}{\psi }_j{\epsilon }_{t-j}$. Square summability of the coefficients ensures mean-square convergence for white noise. An innovation representation additionally identifies its driving noise as the innovation process.

Here the innovation process consists of linear innovations, the linear one-step prediction errors: ${\epsilon }_t=X_t-{\mathrm{proj}}_{{\mathcal{H}}_{t-1}}{X}_t$, where ${\mathcal{H}}_{t-1}$ is the closed linear span of the past $X$'s in $L^2$. For Gaussian processes this is also the conditional expectation prediction error. For general non-Gaussian strong white noise these two notions can differ.

The given ${\eta }_t$ is not the linear innovation process. The moving-average factor has its zero at $1/3$, inside the unit disk, and is noninvertible as a causal moving-average filter. The identityis the moving-average root reflection that places this zero outside the unit disk. Thus the causal invertible representation has innovation variance $9$, rather than the given variance $1$.

For an explicit verification, defineThe filter has constant squared modulus $9$, so $\epsilon$ is weak white noise with variance $9$. The new moving-average factor has root $3$ and is invertible, while its autoregressive factor is causal. Hence the past spans of $X$ and $\epsilon$ agree, and $X_t-{\epsilon }_t$ belongs to that past span. Orthogonality of ${\epsilon }_t$ to past $\epsilon$ therefore identifies it as the linear innovation process. The variance difference proves that it cannot be ${\eta }_t$. If the original noise is Gaussian, the new linear innovations are independent Gaussian variables; without Gaussianity they need only be uncorrelated random variables.

The root-reflected, invertible autoregressive moving-average model isThis follows by multiplying the filter identity for $\epsilon$ by $1-B/3$. Its moving-average root $3$ and autoregressive root $4$ are both outside the unit disk. Thus it is the representation in terms of the innovation process, rather than merely another noise representation with the same spectrum.

Expanding the stable autoregressive inverse gives the infinite moving-average representation in linear innovations:ThereforeFor comparison, the causal representation in the originally supplied noise isBoth converge in $L^2$, since their coefficients are square summable. The second is causal, but its driving noise is not the linear innovation process.