Uniform integrability of RV's

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$\mathbf{Theorem}$: Let $Y \in \mathbb{L}_1$, then the RV $(\mathbb{E}[Y \mid \mathcal{F}], \mathcal{F} \subset \mathcal{A} \space \sigma\text{-algebra})$ are uniformly integrable.

$\mathbf{Proof}$: Choose $K \in (0,\infty)$:

\begin{align} \mathbb{E}[\mathbb{E}[Y \mid \mathcal{F}] \mathbf{1}_{|\mathbb{E}[Y \mid \mathcal{F}]| \ge K}] &\le \mathbb{E}[\mathbb{E}[Y \mid \mathcal{F}] \mathbf{1}_{\mathbb{E}[|Y| \mid \mathcal{F}] \ge K}] \\ &=\mathbb{E}[Y \mathbf{1}_{\mathbb{E}[|Y| \mid \mathcal{F}] \ge K}] \end{align}

Next, we know, that \begin{align} \mathbb{P}(\mathbb{E}[Y \mid \mathcal{F}] \ge K) &=\int_\Omega \mathbf{1}_{\mathbb{E}[Y \mid \mathcal{F}] \ge K}] \, d \mathbb{P}\\ &\le \frac{\mathbb{E}[\mathbb{E}[Y \mid \mathcal{F}]]}{K} = \frac{\mathbb{E}[|Y|]}{K} \end{align}

($\mathbf{Q}$: How do we know that? Is it an application of the Martingale inequality - generalized Kolmogorov for $\psi(K) =K$ and $U = Y$ ?) My guess is no - then by what property do we obtain the above inequality?)

Hence,

$$\sup\left\{ \mathbb{E}[\mathbb{E}[Y \mid \mathcal{F}] \mathbf{1}_{|\mathbb{E}[Y \mid \mathcal{F}]| \ge K}] \right\} \le \sup \left\{\mathbb{E}[|Y| \mathbf{1}_A ]: \mathbb{P}(A) \le \frac{\mathbb{E}[|Y|]}{K}\right\}$$

And uniform integrability follows from uniform continuity of expectation.

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I think you're missing some absolute values throughout your post. The inequality is just Markov's inequality applied to the non-negative variable ${\rm E}[|Y|\mid\mathcal{F}]$. For completeness: If $X$ is any non-negative random variable and $K>0$, then $$X\geq K \iff \frac{X}{K}\geq 1$$ and hence $$ 1_{\{X\geq K\}}\leq \frac{X}{K}1_{\{X\geq K\}}\leq \frac{X}{K}. $$ Apply this to $X={\rm E}[|Y|\mid\mathcal{F}]$ and integrate both sides.