Use the independent-mark interpretation: the Brownian motions attached to the atoms are independent of one another and of the initial Poisson random measure. Fix and define
Conditionally on the initial atoms, each atom is retained as a dangerous atom if its own path meets the target by time . These tests are independent, with position-dependent retention probability . The permitted Poisson thinning property makes the dangerous atoms a Poisson random measure of intensity .
Its total intensity is computed without invoking a marking or displacement theorem. The event in the definition of says that belongs to
By the Tonelli theorem,
Symmetry of Brownian motion gives as processes. It therefore identifies the last expectation with , where the sign of the deterministic path is unchanged. This swept set is a Wiener sausage with an added deterministic path.
The total intensity is finite on each bounded time interval. To see this explicitly, write and . The sausage is contained in a ball of radius . On a finite time grid, splitting according to the first crossing of a positive level by a one-dimensional Brownian motion shows that the chance of ending above , conditional on the crossing, is at least : the remaining independent increment is symmetric. Thus the grid maximum exceeds with probability at most twice the final Gaussian upper tail. Dense grids and continuity give the same bound for the path maximum. Applying this to each coordinate and its negative gives
The last inequality follows from and minimizing the exponential Markov bound. Integration of this tail gives finite moments of of every positive order, so .
There are consequently only finitely many dangerous atoms on each compact time interval, almost surely. For closed balls, continuity of the paths makes each finite hitting-time infimum attained. The event is therefore the absence of dangerous atoms up to time .
The open-ball convention has the same survival probability at each fixed . Indeed for any compact path range , the difference between its closed and open radius-one neighborhoods is the shell , which has zero Lebesgue measure. To see this, choose a nearest for a shell point . For every sufficiently small , the ball of radius centered at lies in the open neighborhood and inside the ball of radius about . Thus the shell has a fixed proportional hole at every scale; the Lebesgue density theorem forces its measure to be zero. By the Tonelli theorem, closed-touch and open-entry retention probabilities have equal integrals. Independent thinning therefore gives no atom that touches only the boundary before this fixed horizon, almost surely. This also excludes a difference at an open-entry infimum equal to .
The zero-count probability of a Poisson distribution is , and hence
This survival among independently moving Poisson traps formula has been derived using only independent thinning and the defining Poisson zero-count probability, with the expectation/volume step supplied by Tonelli's theorem.
Use the one-sided convention: integrating the one-sided spectral density over gives the variance. A standard sufficient hypothesis is absolute summability of the autocovariance sequence:
For a real weakly stationary process, extend the sequence by . The Fourier pair is
Absolute summability makes the series uniformly convergent and continuous; cosine orthogonality gives the inverse relation. Nonnegativity follows from the spectral measure of a stationary time series, or from the nonnegative Fejér approximations obtained by taking variances of finite Fourier sums.
For precision, absolute summability is sufficient, not necessary. The exact general condition is that the spectral measure be absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue measure. For example, a density constant on and zero elsewhere has proportional to , which is not absolutely summable. Thus the displayed absolutely convergent Fourier formula answers the usual covariance-summability version; an arbitrary density need only have the integral inverse relation and Fejér-mean Fourier recovery in .
Start with a finite subcover of the compact set . Among its remaining open balls, retain one of greatest radius and discard every ball intersecting it. Repeat until no balls remain. The retained family is finite and pairwise disjoint. If a discarded ball met the retained ball , then and . Therefore, for any ,
Every original ball lies in the concentric triple of one retained ball. This proves the Wiener covering lemma for the finite subcover. By Lebesgue measure scaling and subadditivity,
Disjointness gives
The empty compact set is covered by the empty selection.
The spherical derivative of a measure at is the limit
when it exists, where is the unit-ball volume. We prove that this limit is zero outside a Lebesgue-null set for the singular measure.
First derive the needed maximal estimate from the selection lemma. For a finite positive Borel measure , put
This is the uncentered maximal function of a finite measure. For , its strict superlevel set is the union of all balls with , so it is open. Cover any compact subset of this set by such balls and apply the finite Wiener covering lemma. The selected disjoint balls give
By inner regularity of Lebesgue measure, this proves the uncentered maximal weak-type inequality
Since and are mutually singular measures, there is a Borel set with and . By regularity of finite Borel measures on Euclidean space, for each choose compact with . Define the remainder measure .
For , distance from to this compact set is positive. Thus sufficiently small centered balls avoid , and
Write for the upper limit of the ratios. If it exceeds , then either or . Hence
The right side has Lebesgue measure at most , since . This even bounds the outer measure of the left side, without a separate measurability argument for the upper density. Let , and then take the countable union over positive rational . We obtain Lebesgue almost everywhere. The ratios are nonnegative, so their lower limit is also zero and
This proves that the spherical derivative of a singular measure vanishes. It is important to approximate the null carrier by compact subsets: a null carrier can be dense, so points outside it need not have any neighbourhood avoiding it.
In one dimension, consider the cumulative distribution function . For either sign of , monotonicity gives a nonnegative difference quotient, and the relevant half-open interval lies inside . In detail, the numerator is for , while after reversing both signs it is for . Thus
At each point where the spherical derivative of a measure is zero, this bound tends to zero from both sides. The enlarged open interval avoids any endpoint ambiguity from atoms. Therefore the ordinary two-sided derivative exists and
This is why singular distribution functions have zero derivative almost everywhere without having to be constant: almost-everywhere differentiation recovers increments only under extra hypotheses such as absolute continuity of a function.
Let be the position at time of the characteristic curve satisfying and . Smooth uniqueness implies . Differentiating in the initial point gives the variational equation
The Liouville formula for a fundamental matrix, or the derivative formula for a determinant, therefore gives
Because , the mixed second derivatives cancel and . The initial Jacobian determinant is one, so
Thus this Hamiltonian flow preserves planar Lebesgue measure. This calculation assumes smoothness as in the part; a rough-flow conclusion later must be justified by approximation rather than by differentiating a merely continuous velocity.
For a real weakly stationary process, extend its autocovariance by . The exact existence of a time-series spectral density condition is that its spectral measure of a stationary time series be absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue measure. Absolute summability is a useful sufficient condition, not a necessary one.
We use the conventional angular-frequency density on , restricted to by symmetry. Under the absolute-summability condition, the Fourier series and its inverse relation are
Thus . If a one-sided density is instead normalized to integrate to the full variance, use and omit the factor two in the inverse formula. This is the positive-frequency spectral normalization convention difference. With merely an integrable spectral density, the inverse relation remains valid; one must not assume pointwise convergence of the unweighted Fourier series. Its Fejér sums recover the density in :
If and are independent stationary processes, the cross covariances vanish, so
Linearity of the inverse Fourier series relation, or addition of the spectral measures of a stationary time series, gives . Independence can in fact be weakened to zero cross-covariances at every lag.
For the ARMA representation, away from an uncancelled unit root the transfer function gives
The usual causal case has ; the same expression holds for the two-sided stationary solution when . We work in the nondegenerate case and ; cancellations and zero-noise cases are obtained by the appropriate reduced representation or limits. Since independent white noise of variance contributes , put
Then
The white-noise addition to an ARMA(1,1) process problem is therefore the factorization
Define
Both are positive under the stated nondegeneracy conditions. An invertible choice is
These satisfy , , and . Hence
In particular, it is the autoregressive coefficient that enters the terms from the added observation noise.
To obtain a representation of the actual , define
The stable inverse exists because , and spectral filtering gives . Thus is weak white noise, and
Its variance can equivalently be written
When , also ; when , necessarily and , so the latter quotient should not be used. The model may reduce in order through cancellation. Boundary limits with or give and need not be stably invertible; the displayed stable reconstruction applies to the nondegenerate case above.
Let along one characteristic curve. Differentiating the characteristic equation gives , , with . The Liouville formula for a fundamental matrix then gives the phase-space flow Jacobian
Indeed , since is independent of . Differentiation proves . If that divergence vanishes, gives and the flow preserves Lebesgue measure on phase space.
Apply the spherical identity of part (b) with , and . The angular exponential in part (c) can be replaced, after angular integration, by . The full phase is then
The Fubini theorem factors the two velocity integrals into Fourier transforms. With , the gain integral is exactly .
The loss Fourier transform is . Dividing the gain by the sphere area gives the Bobylev identity for the Maxwell molecule collision operator:
The initial Fourier datum is . The surface measure on a sphere here is two-dimensional surface area, not the restriction of ambient three-dimensional Lebesgue measure, which would give the sphere measure zero.
The relevant version of Wiener covering lemma is the finite ball selection lemma: from a finite collection of open Euclidean balls one can select pairwise disjoint balls such that the original union is contained in , where has the same centre and three times the radius. To prove it, repeatedly retain a largest-radius remaining ball and discard every ball meeting it. If a discarded ball has radius and meets a retained ball of radius , every point of the former is at distance less than from the latter's centre. This proves the containment and, by scaling Lebesgue measure,
This is a covering result; no Fourier-algebra version of Wiener's lemma is involved.
We use it for a disjoint ball decomposition modulo null sets of . The empty set needs only the empty family. Otherwise put . For an open residual set of positive finite measure, inner regularity of Lebesgue measure supplies a compact with . Cover by finitely many open balls whose closures lie in , and use the Wiener covering lemma to select disjoint balls. Their total measure is at least . Remove their closures to obtain the open residual set . Ball boundaries are null sets, so
All retained balls, including those from different stages, are pairwise disjoint and contained in . They form a countable family. The uncovered set is contained in together with their countably many boundaries, and both have measure zero. Enumerating the retained balls gives
Next consider the uncentered maximal function of a finite measure. For every real , its strict superlevel set is
Indeed, membership in the ball is exactly the strict condition in the supremum. This union is open, proving that is lower semicontinuous as an extended nonnegative function; it may take the value infinity.
For , take a compact subset of this superlevel set and choose a finite cover by balls satisfying the displayed density inequality. The Wiener covering lemma selects disjoint balls whose triples cover . Since is a probability measure,
Take the supremum over compact using inner regularity of Lebesgue measure. This works even if the open superlevel set was initially unbounded, and proves the uncentered maximal weak-type inequality
For a finite positive measure of mass , scaling gives instead.
One important use is the Lebesgue differentiation theorem. For , approximate it in by a compactly supported continuous , and set . The limiting mean oscillation of at is at most , since that of vanishes by continuity. The preceding weak-type estimate and the elementary integral bound on give
Let the approximation error tend to zero and then take countably many . The local averages of converge to almost everywhere. Localizing extends this to locally integrable functions. Thus the maximal estimate turns norm approximation by continuous functions into almost-everywhere information about local averages.
We prove the Kahane-Katznelson divergence theorem through an explicit small-norm block construction. Let be normalized Lebesgue measure on the circle.
First establish the compact-set Fourier amplification lemma. If a compact set satisfies
we can make a trigonometric polynomial with , supported in any sufficiently high interval of positive frequencies, whose partial prefix has magnitude greater than on .
To construct it, choose a smooth nonnegative function equal to one near , with values at most one and mean
Outer regularity and a smooth cutoff give this choice; the stipulated bound on leaves room between the two exponentials. The Schwarz integral on the unit disk
has positive real part in the disk, , and boundary real part . Its holomorphic logarithm
satisfies and . On , the boundary value has . Smoothness of makes continuous at the boundary, and its positive boundary real part near makes continuous there.
Choose a radius just below one, then truncate the Taylor series of at that radius. This gives an analytic polynomial with zero constant term, degree , and
The radial function is analytic beyond the closed unit disk, so the Taylor truncation is uniform on the whole circle. For , put
Its frequencies lie between and , all positive. Its prefix through frequency includes exactly the negative-frequency half of shifted into this interval:
Consequently on , whereas . Increasing places the entire block above any previously used frequency.
We next use compact batching of a small open set to handle an arbitrary null set, without assuming that it is compact or a countable union of compact null sets. Set
For each , choose an open with . Decompose into countably many closed subarcs with pairwise disjoint interiors: subdivide each open component into closed pieces accumulating only at its excluded endpoints. Group these subarcs into finite successive batches . After batch , include enough pieces that the remaining total length is less than . Require each batch endpoint in the enumeration to increase. Then
Each batch is compact; endpoints shared by pieces have zero measure and do not affect the estimates.
Enumerate the pairs in diagonal order. Apply the block lemma with target to each , and shift its spectrum above all preceding blocks. Denote the resulting polynomial by and set
Since , this series is uniformly convergent and defines a continuous complex-valued function.
Fix . For every there is a with . The difference between the Fourier partial sum just before that block and the sum at its midpoint has magnitude greater than : previous blocks cancel in the difference, and future blocks have not yet entered. As , these cutoffs tend to infinity. At least one of the two partial sums therefore has magnitude greater than . The Fourier partial sums are unbounded, hence not Cauchy, at . We have proved
This establishes divergence on every prescribed null set, including dense nonclosed null sets; it does not assert that the divergence set is exactly .
Use the Fourier transform convention throughout this question. The decay assumption implies square integrability, since polar coordinates give
Near zero the integrand is bounded by , and at infinity it is bounded by . The positive is what makes the latter integrable.
By the Plancherel theorem, there is a function whose Fourier transform is . It is the density of with respect to Lebesgue measure. To justify this step rather than assume a density, for every Schwartz function , Fourier inversion gives
The finite measure and the locally integrable function thus define the same tempered distribution, so they agree as measures: . In particular almost everywhere and . This is the L2 density from a square-integrable Fourier transform principle.
For , the density of is . The inequality holds wherever , apart from a Lebesgue measure zero set, so
A second application of the Plancherel theorem yields the explicit bound
The implicit constant in the requested estimate may depend on the measure and its Fourier-decay bound, but is independent of .
A Sierpiński set is an uncountable subset of such that is countable for every set of Lebesgue measure zero. Equivalently it is enough to test Borel null sets, because every null set is contained in a Borel null set. Uncountability and countable intersection with every null set are both required. This is the measure analogue of the category-based Luzin set condition; it does not say that itself is measurable.
First apply Lebesgue decomposition to the derivative measure relative to :
Here is the almost-everywhere approximate gradient, rather than an assertion that belongs to . Split the singular part into its jump part of a BV derivative and Cantor part of a BV derivative:
An approximate jump point has a unit normal and distinct finite BV traces on a hypersurface , obtained as mean limits on the corresponding two half-balls. Their set is the jump set of a BV function, countably -rectifiable. Reversing the normal swaps the BV traces on a hypersurface and leaves the displayed measure unchanged. The approximate discontinuity set differs from only by an -null set.
The remaining is singular to Lebesgue measure and gives zero mass to every set with sigma-finite measure. It is diffuse rather than a second jump contribution. In one dimension the three parts are illustrated by an affine function, a step function and the Cantor function, respectively. Countably many jumps therefore do not imply that the singular derivative has no Cantor part of a BV derivative.
The derivative of the backward characteristic flow map is
Thus the change of variables formula preserves phase-space Lebesgue measure. With zero source, , so for every finite ,
Taking the th root proves . For this is a quasi-norm, and the argument still works because it uses only a change of variables, not the triangle inequality. The identity also holds in the extended sense when an integral is infinite. Since the flow is bijective and measure-preserving, it additionally preserves the essential supremum, so the same conclusion holds for .
Use probability measure-preserving systems: is measurable and . Its invariant sigma-algebra is
Ergodicity means that every invariant measurable set has measure zero or one:
Equivalently, every invariant measurable function is constant almost everywhere. Indeed all rational sublevel sets of a real invariant function belong to , so the zero-or-one alternative forces its distribution to concentrate at one value. Apply this to real and imaginary parts for complex functions. Conversely, an invariant set has an invariant indicator, so the function criterion implies the set criterion. This is the invariant-function characterization of ergodicity.
For an irrational rotation of the circle, with , an invariant has Fourier coefficients satisfying
For the multiplier is nonzero. Completeness of the Fourier series basis therefore makes constant. Apply this to an invariant indicator to prove the irrational rotation is ergodic. A second example is the cyclic permutation of points with equal masses: a nonempty invariant set contains the whole cycle and hence has measure one.
The identity on with Lebesgue measure is not ergodic, since is invariant and has measure . Nor is rotation by on the circle: the set
is invariant and has measure . These examples also show why preservation of measure does not imply ergodicity.
Let be the Koopman operator, , and set
The Von Neumann mean ergodic theorem says that, for , these Cesaro averages converge in to the orthogonal projection onto the invariant functions:
For an invertible system, is a unitary operator. The Hilbert-space theorem states more generally that the Cesaro averages of any unitary operator converge strongly to its fixed-space projection.
Here is the requested invertible-case proof. Since ,
Thus the orthogonal decomposition for unitary ergodic averages is
On the first summand, . On a vector , telescoping gives
Because , approximation extends this convergence to the closure of the range. The orthogonal decomposition now proves the theorem for every . An invariant function is -measurable, and an -measurable function is invariant by approximation with indicators; hence the projection is the stated conditional expectation.
In an ergodic system, invariant functions are constants by the criterion already proved. Their orthogonal projection is obtained by taking the inner product with , whose norm is one. Therefore the ergodic limit is the space average:
The Birkhoff ergodic theorem states that, for ,
The limit is invariant, integrable, and has the same integral as . On a probability space convergence also holds in . In an ergodic system the limit is almost everywhere.
For the topological sharpening, take a continuous map on a compact metric space. Unique ergodicity means there is exactly one invariant Borel probability measure . The uniform ergodic convergence for uniquely ergodic systems says that every continuous real or complex satisfies
Thus convergence holds at every point and uniformly in that point. The continuity, compactness and continuous-observable hypotheses belong to this theorem; it is not a claim of uniform convergence for all measurable functions.