Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2012 iii Paper 38 1 ii Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-07
The series defining the linear filter of a stationary time series converges in , because the norm of a tail is at most times the corresponding tail sum of . Its mean is the original mean times . Its covariance is time independent and equalsUnder the summability assumption in (i),We may therefore interchange all the sums. Setting in the Fourier series givesThe second factor is the conjugate of the first because the coefficients are real. HenceThis spectral density transformation under a linear filter also holds whenever the original spectral measure has a density, without covariance summability: insert its integral representation into the covariance double sum, justified by absolute summability of the filter coefficients.