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For a sequence of finite real random variables, ${\mathrm{limsup}}_n{n}^{-1}{\sum }_{j=1}^n{X}_j$ is measurable with respect to its tail sigma-algebra: deleting finitely many summands changes each sample mean by a quantity tending to zero. When the random variables are independent random variables, the Kolmogorov zero-one law makes every finite such limit constant almost surely.

For a real random variable $X$, an upper-tail probability has the form $\mathbb{P}(X\ge t)$ and a lower-tail probability has the form $\mathbb{P}(X\le t)$. A concentration inequality bounds such probabilities.

For a nonnegative random variable $X$, Tonelli theorem givesConsequently, for each $a>0$, $\mathbb{E}[X]=\infty$ exactly when ${\sum }_{n\ge 1}\mathbb{P}(X>an)=\infty$; compare the integral on successive intervals of length $a$.

A terminal portfolio wealth floor is a prescribed lower bound, possibly a random variable, on terminal portfolio portfolio wealth. In a complete market, its state-price density cost cannot exceed initial portfolio wealth. Nonnegative admissibility replaces a possibly negative floor by its positive part.

For a nonnegative random variable with finite mean $\mu$ and $0\le \theta \le 1$, the part of the expectation on $X\le \theta \mu$ is at most $\theta \mu$. Subtracting gives $\mathbb{E}[X{1}_{\{X>\theta \mu \}}]\ge (1-\theta )\mu$. If the second moment is positive and finite, applying the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality to $X$ and the indicator variable gives the Paley-Zygmund inequality $\mathbb{P}(X>\theta \mu )\ge (1-\theta {)}^2{\mu }^2/\mathbb{E}[X^2]$.

A real Wigner matrix is a real symmetric matrix whose upper off-diagonal entries are independent centered copies of a fixed random variable, scaled to have variance of order $1/N$. Diagonal conventions may vary and should be specified separately. A common version has variance-one unscaled off-diagonal entries and either zero diagonal entries or independent diagonal entries with a bounded second moment.

A zero-probability event has probability measure zero. It need not be empty: for a continuously distributed random variable, equality with a specified value is such an event. The complementary event occurs almost surely.