Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2014 iii Paper 26 1 2 Solution 2026-10-06
For , the exit time is at least one. Since , this event is independent of . The Tonelli theorem givesTherefore the integrability of a stopped random-walk increment bound isIt is the survival event, not the exit-at- event, that is independent of the next increment. The selected exit increment need not have the same distribution or mean as .
For , the printed variable is undefined because the increment sequence starts at one. Either restrict this part to , or make the harmless additional convention . With that convention the conclusion also holds in the immediate-exit case. The integrability assertion needs this indexing qualification.