Abstract
According to the Dudley-Wichura extension of the Skorohod representation theorem, convergence in distribution to a limit in a separable set is equivalent to the existence of a coupling with elements converging a.s. in the metric. A density analogue of this theorem says that a sequence of probability densities on a general measurable space has a probability density as a pointwise lower limit if and only if there exists a coupling with elements converging a.s. in the discrete metric. In this paper the discrete-metric theorem is extended to stochastic processes considered in a widening time window. The extension is then used to prove the separability version of the Skorohod representation theorem. The paper concludes with an application to Markov chains.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 63 |
| Journal | Electronic Communications in Probability |
| Volume | 21 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright: © 2016, University of Washington. All rights reserved.Other keywords
- Convergence in density
- Convergence in distribution
- Skorohod representation
- Widening time window