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Teor. Veroyatnost. i Primenen., 2003 Volume 48, Issue 4, Pages 828–834 (Mi tvp261)

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Conditional zero-one laws

K. Hess

Technische Universität Dresden

Abstract: We say that a class of events fulfills a conditional zero-one law if it is a subset of the completion of the conditioning $\sigma$-algebra. In this case the conditional probability of an event of the class is an indicator function. Therefore the conditional probability takes almost surely only the values zero and one; in the unconditional case the indicator functions are almost surely constant.
We consider two special zero-one laws. If a sequence of random variables is conditionally independent, then its tail $\sigma$-algebra fulfills a conditional zero-one law; this generalizes Kolmogorov's zero-one law. If the sequence is even conditionally identically distributed, then its permutable $\sigma$-algebra, which contains the tail $\sigma$-algebra, fulfills a conditional zero-one law; this generalizes the zero-one law of Hewitt and Savage.

Keywords: conditional probability, conditional independence, zero-one law.

Received: 02.06.2000

Language: English

DOI: 10.4213/tvp261


 English version:
Theory of Probability and its Applications, 2004, 48:4, 711–718

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