{ "id": "2111.15469", "version": "v2", "published": "2021-11-30T15:07:35.000Z", "updated": "2022-04-08T10:56:31.000Z", "title": "A Strong Law of Large Numbers for Positive Random Variables", "authors": [ "Ioannis Karatzas", "Walter Schachermayer" ], "categories": [ "math.PR" ], "abstract": "In the spirit of the famous KOML\\'OS (1967) theorem, every sequence of nonnegative, measurable functions $\\{ f_n \\}_{n \\in \\N}$ on a probability space, contains a subsequence which - along with all its subsequences - converges a.e. in CES\\`ARO mean to some measurable $f_* : \\Omega \\to [0, \\infty]$. This result of VON WEIZS\\\"ACKER (2004) is proved here using a new methodology and elementary tools; these sharpen also a theorem of DELBAEN & SCHACHERMAYER (1994), replacing general convex combinations by CES\\`ARO means.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2022-04-08T10:56:31.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "60A10", "60F15" ], "keywords": [ "positive random variables", "large numbers", "strong law", "replacing general convex combinations", "subsequence" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }