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\beginsection Approximation of partial sums of independent random
variables
 
Let $X_1,X_2,\dots$ be a sequence of independent and identically
distributed random variables, and let us consider the partial sums
$S_0=0$, $S_n=\summ_{k=1}^nX_k$, $n=1,2,\dots$, defined by them.
Let us also define the following $S(t)$, $0\le t<\infty$, (random)
broken line:
$$
\aligned
S(n)&=S_n,\quad n=0,1,2,\dots, \\
S(t)&=S(n)+(t-n)(S(n+1)-S(n)) \text{ \ if \ } n\le t<n+1,\quad
n=0,1,2,\dots. \endaligned \tag1
$$
The stochastic process $S(t)$, $t\ge0$, behaves similarly to a
Wiener process $W(t)$, $t\ge0$, (i.e. to a Gaussian stochastic
process $W(t)$ with continuous trajectories with expectation
$EW(t)=0$ for all $t\ge0$ and covariance function
$EW(s)W)t)=\min(s,t)$ for all pairs of numbers $0\le s,t<\infty$).
In this work we are interested in the question how well
the process $S(t)$ can be approximated by means of an
appropriate Wiener process. For the sake of convenience
we shall study the following equivalent problem. Given
a Wiener process $W(t)$, $0\le t<\infty$, at the start we want
to construct a broken line type random process $\bar S(t)$,
$0\le t\le\infty$, with the same distribution as the random broken
line $S(t)$, $0\le t<\infty$, defined in~(1) which is as
close to the Wiener process $W(t)$ as possible. More explicitly,
we want to get such a construction for which the probability
$P\(\supp_{0\le t\le T}|\bar S(t)-W(t)|>A(T)\)$ is almost zero for
all sufficiently large parameters~$T$, and we would like to have
this relation with a function $A(T)$, $T\ge0$, as small as possible.
This question is a natural counterpart of the problem studied in the
series of problems {\it The approximation of the normalized empirical
distribution function by a Brownian bridge}. A similar result can be
proved also in this case. Namely, the following Theorem holds.
 
\medskip\noindent
{\bf Approximation Theorem.} {\it Let $F$ be a distribution
function such that
$$
\int x F(\,dx)=0,\quad\int x^2F(\,dx)=1,\quad \int
e^{sx}F(\,dx)<\infty,\quad\text{if }|s|<s_0 \tag2
$$
with some appropriate number $s_0>0$, (i.e.\ a random variable
$X$ with distribution function $F$ satisfies the relations $EX=0$,
$EX^2=1$ and $Ee^{sX}<\infty$ if the absolute value of the number
$s$ is small). Let a Wiener process $W(t)=W(t,\oo)$, $t\ge0$, be
given on some probability space $(\Omega,\Cal A,P)$. Then a
sequence of independent, identically distributed random variables
$X_1,X_2,\dots$ with distribution function $F$ can be constructed
on this probability space $(\Omega,\Cal A,P)$ in such a way that
the random broken line $S(t)=S(t,\oo)$, $t\ge0$, defined by means
of the partial sums $S_0=0$, $S_n=\summ_{k=1}^nX_k$, $n=1,2,\dots$,
in formula~(1) satisfies the inequality
$$
P\(\sup_{0\le t\le T}|S(t,\oo)-W(t,\oo)|>C_1\log T+x\)
<C_2e^{-\lambda x} \tag3
$$
for all numbers $x\ge0$ with some appropriate constants $C_1>0$,
$C_2>0$ and $\lambda>0$ depending only on the distribution
function~$F$.}
 
\medskip
It is not difficult to prove the following statement of Problem~1.
\medskip
\item{1.)} If the random broken line $S(t)=S(t,\oo)$ and Wiener
process $W(t)=W(t,\oo)$, $t\ge 0$ satisfy relation~(3), then there
exists some constant $K>0$ such that
$$
\limsup_{T\to\infty}\frac{\supp_{0\le t\le T}|S(t,\oo)-T(t,\oo)|}
{\log T}<K\quad\text{with probability 1.} \tag4
$$
\medskip
 
The approximation theorem or its consequence formulated in Problem~1
states in a slightly informal interpretation that in the case of an
appropriate construction the relation $|S(t)-W(t)|=O(\log n)$ holds.
On the other hand, the order of magnitude of the random variables
$S(t)$ and $W(t)$ is $\const\sqrt t$. This means that the estimation
of the Approximation theorem yields an approximation of the same
order as the result of the series of problems {\it The approximation
of the normalized empirical distribution function by a Brownian
bridge} for the approximation of the normalized empirical
distribution function by a Brownian bridge. I shall
formulate two Statements whose content is that the estimate of the
Approximation theorem is sharp. More explicitly, there is no such
construction for the approximation of partial sums by a Wiener
process which would yield a version of formula (4) with some
function $g(T)$ such that $g(T)=o(\log T)$ as $T\to\infty$. Beside
this, condition~(2) of the Approximation Theorem cannot be dropped.
In more detail, I formulate the following results:
 
\medskip\noindent
{\bf Statement 1.} {\it Let $X_1, X_2,\dots$, be a sequence of
independent and identically distributed random variables on a
probability space $(\Omega,\Cal A,P)$. Put $S_0=0$,
$S_n=\summ_{k=1}^n X_k$, $n=1,2,\dots$, and define the random
broken line $S(t)=S(t,\oo)$ from these random variables by means of
formula~(1). Let $W(t)$, $t\ge0$, be a Wiener process on the same
probability space $(\Omega,\Cal A,P)$. If the random
variables $X_k$ are not standard normal distributed, then there
exists some constant $K>0$ such that
$$
\limsup_{T\to\infty}\frac{\supp_{0\le t\le T}|S(t,\oo)-T(t,\oo)|}
{\log T}>K\quad\text{with probability 1.} \tag5
$$
}\medskip\noindent
{\bf Statement 2.} {\it If the random broken line  $S(t)$, $t\ge0$,
made from the partial sums of some independent and identically
distributed random variables $X_1,X_2,\dots$ by means of formula~(1)
and a Wiener process $W(t)$, $t\ge 0$ satisfy relation~(4), then
$EX_1=0$, $EX_1^2=1$ and $Ee^{sX_1}<\infty$ for  $|s|<s_0$ with
some number $s_0>0$, i.e. the distribution function $F(x)$ of the
random variable $X_1$ satisfies relation~(2).}
\medskip\noindent
Statements 1 and 2 follow from the results of Problems 10 and 12 of
this note.
 
Not only the result of the Approximation Theorem is similar to the
main result of the series of problems in {\it The approximation
of the normalized empirical distribution function by a Brownian
bridge}, but also the constructions yielding these results are
based on a similar idea. To explain the relation between them it
is useful to formulate the version of the Approximation Theorem
about a sequence of finitely many partial sums.
 
\medskip\noindent
{\bf The finite version of the Approximation Theorem.}
{\it Let us fix a positive integer~$n$. Let $F$ be a distribution
function satisfying the properties given in formula (2), and let
$W(t)$, $0\le t\le 2^n$, be a Wiener process on the interval
$0\le t\le 2^n$. A sequence of independent and identically
distributed random variables $X_k$, $1\le k\le 2^n$, can be
constructed with distribution function $F$ in such a way that the
partial sums $S_0=0$, $S_k=\summ_{j=1}^kX_j$, $1\le k\le2^n$, and
random broken line function $S_n(t)$, $0\le t\le 2^n$ defined by
the formula
$$
S_n(t)=S_{k-1}+(t-(k-1))(S_k-S_{k-1}), \quad\text{if } k-1\le t\le
k,\quad 1\le k\le 2^n,     \tag $1'$
$$
satisfy the following inequalities:
$$
P\(\sup_{0\le t\le 2^n}|S_n(t,\oo)-W(t,\oo)|>\bar C_1
n+x\)<\bar C_2e^{-\lambda x}, \tag6
$$
and in the end point  $t=2^n$
$$
P\(\left|S_{2^n}(\oo)-W(2^n,\oo)\right|\ge C_1+x\)\le \bar
C_2e^{-\lambda x} \tag6a
$$
for all numbers $x>0$ with some appropriate constants
$\bar C_1>0$, $\bar C_2>0$ and $\lambda>0$ depending only on the
distribution function $F$.}
 
\medskip\noindent
{\bf Remark.} {\it Relation (6a) can be proved as the consequence of
the following statement. A sequence of independent random variables
satisfying the finite version of the Approximation Theorem for which
$$
\left|S_{2^n}(\oo)-W(2^n,\oo)\right|\le C\frac{W(2^n,\oo)^2}{2^n}+D,
\quad \text{if } |W(2^n,\oo)|\le \e 2^{n/2}
$$
with some appropriate constants $C>0$, $D>0$ and $\e>0$.}
\medskip\noindent
Let us prove the following (simple) statement.
\medskip
\item{2.)} The Approximation Theorem can be deduced from the
{\it Finite version of the Approximation Theorem}.
\medskip
A construction leading to the proof of the {\it Finite version of
the Approximation Theorem}  can be obtained as a natural
adaptation of the construction described in {\it The approximation
of the normalized empirical distribution function by a Brownian
bridge}, at least if we impose some additional conditions about the
distribution function $F$ in this result.
 
Given a Wiener process $W(t)$, $0\le t\le2^n$, first we construct
the random variable $S_{2^n}$ as the quantile transform of
$W(2^n)$, i.e. let $S_n(2^n)=S_{2^n}=F_{2^n}^{-1}
\(\Phi\(\frac{W(2^n)}{2^{n/2}}\)\) =\left\{u\: F_{2^n}(u)<
\Phi\(\frac{W(2^n)}{2^{n/2}}\)\right\}$, where $F_{2^n}(x)=\bar
F_{2^n}(2^{n/2}x)$, and $\bar F_{2^n}(x)$ is the distribution
function of the random variable $S_{2^n}$, i.e. it equals the
$2^n$-times convolution of the function~$F$ with itself, and
$\Phi(x)$ is the standard normal distribution function, hence
it is the distribution function of the random variable
$\frac{W(2^n)}{2^{n/2}}$. Since the distribution function of the sum
of $N$ independent, identically distributed random variables with
expectation zero and variance 1 can be well approximated by the
normal distribution function with expectation zero and variance $N$,
and also a good large deviation type result is known about this
approximation (this result is also proved in Problem~22 of the
series of problems {\it The theory of large deviations I.}\/ which
exists only in Hungarian for the time being), it can be proved with
the help of some calculation that the above construction satisfies
relation~(6a). In the approximation of the standardized empirical
distribution function by a Brownian bridge $B(t)$ no step
corresponding to this argument appears, since $Z_n(1)=B(1)=0$,
in the end-point $t=1$. Hence in the point $t=1$ the random process
$Z_n(t)$ need not be fitted to the process $B(t)$.
 
After the definition of the value of the stochastic process $S_n(t)$
in the end-points $t=2^n$ and $t=0$ (we have $S_n(0)=0$), we can
define its values in the points $t=(2k-1)2^{n-l}$, $1\le k\le2^{l-1}$,
by means of induction with respect to the parameter $l$,
$l=1,\dots,n$, as an appropriate transform of the Wiener process
$W(t)$, $0\le t\le 2^n$. This definition is a natural adaptation of
the ``halving'' construction of the normalized empirical distribution
function by means of the Brownian bridge described in {\it The
approximation of the normalized empirical distribution function by a
Brownian bridge}. The main difference between these constructions is
that now the Brownian bridge $B(t)$ is replaced by the Wiener process
$2^{-n/2}W(2^nt)$ and the normalized empirical distribution function
$Z_n(t)$ by the random broken line $2^{-n/2}S_n(2^nt)$, $0\le t\le1$.
More explicitly, our definition is based on the following
observation.
 
If $S_1,\dots, S_{2^n}$ are partial sums of independent, identically
distributed random variables with distribution $F$, and
$W(t)$, $0\le t\le2^n$, is a Wiener process, then we define the
analogs of the random variables $U_{k,l}$, $V_{k,l}$,
$\bar U_{k,l}$ and $\bar V_{k,l}$ and $\sigma$-algebras
$\Cal F_l$ and $\Cal G_l$ introduced in formulas (1)--(4) of
{\it The approximation of the normalized empirical distribution
function by a Brownian bridge} by means of the
following formulas:
$$
\align
U_{k,l}=U_{k,l,n}&=2^{(l-n+1)/2}\[W\(k2^{n-l}\)-W\((k-1)2^{n-l}\)\],
\quad 1\le k\le 2^l,\;\; 0\le l\le n,  \\
V_{k,l}=V_{k,l,n}&=2^{(l-n+1)/2}\[S_{k2^{n-l}}-S_{(k-1)2^{n-l}}\],
\quad 1\le k \le 2^l,\;\; 0\le l\le n,
\endalign
$$
$$
\align
\Cal F_l&=\Cal B\left\{U_{k,l},\; 1\le k\le 2^l\right\},\quad
0\le l\le n, \\
\Cal G_l&=\Cal B\left\{V_{k,l},\; 1\le k\le 2^l\right\},
\quad 0\le l\le n,
\endalign
$$
$$
\align
\bold U_l&=\{U_{k,l},\;k=1,\dots, 2^l\},\quad 0\le l\le n \\
\bold V_l&=\{V_{k,l},\;k=1,\dots, 2^l\},\quad 0\le l\le n
\endalign
$$
and
$$ \allowdisplaybreaks
\align
&\bar{\bold U}_{l+1}=\{\bar U_{1,l+1},\dots,\bar U_{2^{l+1},l+1}\},\quad
\bar{\bold V}_{l+1}=\{\bar V_{1,l+1},\dots,\bar V_{2^{l+1},l+1}\},\\
&\bar U_{k,l+1}=U_{k,l+1}-E (U_{k,l+1}|\Cal F_l),\quad
\bar V_{k,l+1}=V_{k,l+1}-E( V_{k,l+1}|\Cal G_l)\\
&\hskip6.5truecm 1\le k\le 2^{l+1},\quad 0\le l\le n-1.
\endalign
$$
These random variables $U_{k,l}$, $V_{k,l}$, $\bar U_{k,l}$ and $\bar
V_{k,l}$ satisfy the natural analogs of the properties listed in
Problems~3 and~4 of {\it The approximation of the normalized empirical
distribution function by a Brownian bridge}. In particular, the
following identities hold:
$$
\align
\bar V_{2k-1,l+1}&=2^{(l-n)/2}
\(S_{(2k-1)2^{(n-l-1)}}-S_{(k-1)2^{(n-l-1)}}
-\frac12\(S_{k2^{(n-l)}}-S_{(k-1)2^{(n-l)}}\) \)\\
&=\frac{2^{(l-n)/2}}2\(\(S_{(2k-1)2^{(n-l-1)}}-S_{(k-1)2^{(n-l)}}\)
-\(S_{k2^{(n-l)}}-S_{(2k-1)2^{(n-l-1)}}\)\)\\
\bar V_{2k,l+1}&=2^{(l-n)/2}
\(S_{k 2^{(n-l)}}-S_{(2k-1)2^{(n-l-1)}}
-\frac12\(S_{k2^{(n-l)}}-S_{(k-1)2^{(n-l)}}\) \) \tag7a   \\
&=-\bar V_{2k-1,l+1}
\endalign
$$
and
$$
\aligned
\bar U_{2k-1,l+1}&=2^{(l-n)/2}
\biggl(W((2k-1)2^{(n-l-1)})-W((k-1)2^{(n-l-1)})\\
&\qquad\qquad\qquad-\frac12\(W(k2^{(n-l)})-W((k-1)2^{(n-l)})\)
\biggr)\\
&=\frac{2^{(l-n)/2}}2\biggl(
\(W((2k-1)2^{(n-l-1)})-W((k-1)2^{(n-l)})\)\\
&\qquad\qquad\qquad -\(W(k2^{(n-l)})-W((2k-1)2^{(n-l-1)})\)\biggr)\\
\bar U_{2k,l+1}&=2^{(l-n)/2}
\biggl(W(k 2^{(n-l)})-W((2k-1)2^{(n-l-1)}) \\
&\qquad\qquad\qquad -
\frac12\(W(k2^{(n-l)})-W(k-1)2^{(n-l)})\) \biggr)=-\bar U_{2k-1,l+1}
\endaligned \tag7b
$$
for all numbers $0\le l\le n-1$ and $1\le k\le 2^l$. These relations
also imply that $U_{2k-1,l+1}=-U_{2k,l+1}$ for all numbers $1\le
k\le 2^l$, and the random variables $U_{2k-1,l+1}$, $0\le l\le n-1$
and $1\le k\le 2^l$ are independent with standard normal distribution.
 
We have to prove some properties of the random variables $V_{k,l}$
and $\bar V_{k,l}$ introduced in the present investigation which
cannot be considered as the natural analogs of the results in
{\it The approximation of the normalized empirical distribution
function by a Brownian bridge}. Namely, we have to give a good
asymptotic formula for the conditional distribution function of
the random variables $V_{k,l+1}$ under the condition of the
$\sigma$-algebra~$\Cal G_l$.
 
The random variables $\bar V_{2k-1,l+1}$, $1\le k\le l$, are
conditionally independent under the $\sigma$-algebra $\Cal G_l$ also
in the present case. Beside this, the conditional distribution of
the random variable $\bar V_{2k-1,l+1}=-\bar V_{2k,l+1}$ under the
condition of the $\sigma$-algebra $\Cal G_l$ can be expressed
explicitly as a function of the random variable $V_{k,l}$. We can
write that
$$
\aligned
\left.P\(\bar V_{2k-1,l+1}<x\right|\Cal G_l\)&=
\left.P\(V_{2k-1,l+1}<x\right|V_{1,l},\dots,V_{2^l,l}\)\\
&=\left.P\(V_{2k-1,l+1}<x\right|V_{k,l}\)=F_{2^{n-l-1}}(x|V_{k,l}),
\endaligned \tag8a
$$
where the functions $F_N(x|y)$, $N=1,2,\dots$, are defined by the
formula
$$
\aligned
&F_N(x|y)=\left.P\(\sqrt{\frac2N}\(S_{N}-\frac12S_{2N}\)<x\right|
\frac{S_{2N}}{\sqrt {2N}}=y\)\!,\;\text {where } S_k=\sum_{j=1}^k
X_j,\;k=1,2,\dots\\
&\qquad\text{and }X_1,X_2,\dots, \text{ are independent random
variables with distribution function $F$}
\endaligned \tag8b
$$
for all numbers $N=1,2,\dots$.
\medskip
\item{3.)} Let us prove formulas (7a), (7b), (8a) and (8b).
\medskip
The random variables $X_k=\frac1{\sqrt2}V_{k,n}$ can be defined by
means of the above formulas similarly to the method of
{\it The approximation of the normalized empirical distribution
function by a Brownian bridge} by means of the inductive
(with respect to the parameter~$l$) construction by defining first
the random variables $\bar V_{2k-1,l}$ and then
$V_{2k-1,l}$, $1\le k\le 2^{l-1}$. The only essential difference is
that we define the random variable $\bar V_{2k-1,l+1}$
by means of the relation
$$
\bar V_{2k-1,l+1}=F^{-1}_{2^{n-l-1}}(\Phi(\bar U_{2k-1,l})|V_{k,l}),
\tag9
$$
where the function $F_N(x|y)$ was defined in formula~(8b), and
$$
F^{-1}_{2^{n-l-1}}(x|y)=\sup\{u\: F_{2^{n-l-1}}(u|y)<x\}.
$$
(This corresponds to formula~(6a) in {\it The approximation of the
normalized empirical distribution function by a Brownian bridge}.
 
The statement that the above construction satisfies the {\it Finite
version of the Approximation Theorem}\/ can be proved similarly to
the corresponding result in {\it The approximation of the normalized
empirical distribution function by a Brownian bridge}. Moreover,
since in the present case the partial sums of independent random
variables have to be estimated, some steps of the proof become
simpler. Here we do not need the Poisson approximation applied in
the above mentioned series of problems which was needed to overcome
some difficulties arising from the not complete independence of the
random variables we had to work with. Let me also remark that in the
study of the approximation of the normalized empirical distribution
functions we have applied such properties of the binomial and
exponential distributions, whose analogs also hold for all random
variables with distribution function $F$ satisfying relation~(2).
 
If we consider the approximation result of a random broken line
process defined with the help of normalized partial sums of
independent random variables in formula~(1) by means of a Wiener
process in the way described above and want to show that it yields
a good approximation one serious problem appears in the proof.
We have to show that the random variable $\bar V_{2k-1,l+1}$
defined in formula~(9) is sufficiently close to the random variable
$\bar U_{2k-1,l+1}$. To do this we need a good estimate on the
closeness of conditional distribution function $F_N(x|y)$ defined
in formula (8b) to the standard normal distribution function. I
shall formulate a sharp estimate for the difference of these two
distribution functions under the name {\it Property~A} which will
be sufficient for our purposes. But the proof of {\it Property~A}
which does not follow directly from standard well-known results is
not simple. In the next part I shall concentrate on the proof of
this result and the difficulties related to it.
 
\medskip\noindent
{\bf The definition of Property A.} {\it Let a distribution
function $F$ be given, and let us consider a sequence $X_k$,
$k=1,2,\dots$ of independent $F$ distributed random variables.
Let us define the partial sums $S_n=\summ_{k=1}^n X_k$,
$n=1,2,\dots$, of this random variables. We shall say the
distribution function $F$ satisfies {\rm Property~A} if there
exists some number $\e>0$ and threshold index $n_0$ such that
the relation
$$
\aligned
1-F_n(x|y)&=\left.P\(\sqrt{\frac2n}\(S_{n}-\frac12S_{2n}\)>x\right|
\frac{S_{2n}}{\sqrt {2n}}=y\)\\
&=\(1-\Phi(x)\)\exp\left\{O\(\frac{x^3+x^2|y|+|y|+1}{\sqrt
n}\)\right\}\\
&\qquad\quad\text{if }0\le x\le \e\sqrt n,\; \;0\le |y|\le\e\sqrt n\\
F_n(-x|y)&=\left.P\(\sqrt{\frac2n}\(S_{n}-\frac12S_{2n}\)<-x\right|
\frac{S_{2n}}{\sqrt {2n}}=y\) \\
&=\(1-\Phi(x)\)\exp\left\{O\(\frac{x^3+x^2|y|+|y|+1}{\sqrt
n}\)\right\}\\
&\qquad\quad\text{if }0\le x\le \e\sqrt n,\; \;0\le |y|\le\e\sqrt n,
\endaligned \tag10
$$
holds, where $\Phi(x)$ is the standard normal distribution function,
and the error term $O(\cdot)$ is uniform in the variables $x$, $y$ and
$n$.}
\medskip
Let me remark that the error term $O(\cdot)$ in formula (10) contains
such a polynomial of order~3 which is in his variable $|y|$ only of
order~1. An estimate analogous to {\it Property A} also appeared in
{\it The approximation of the normalized empirical distribution
function by a Brownian bridge}. In Problem~2 of that work the
approximation of normalized partial sums of independent binomial
random variables was considered by standard normal random variables
in the case when partial sums of the binomial random variables
were divided by a number which might slightly differ from the square
root of the variance of this sum. This problem corresponds to the
approximation of the random variable defined in formula (9) by
standard normal random variable. This problem could be solved with
the help of an estimate about the distribution of partial sums of
independent random variables with binomial distribution which is a
natural analog of Property~A.
 
We shall show that if the distribution function $F$ has moment
generating function and a sufficiently smooth density function, then
the distribution function~$F$ satisfies Property~A. We shall prove
with the help of the solution of some problems the following
Proposition.
\medskip\noindent
{\bf Proposition.} {\it Let us assume that the distribution function
$F$ satisfies property~(2), and its moment generating function
$R(s)=\int e^{sx}F(\,dx)$ together with its analytic continuation
$R(z)=R(s+it)=\int e^{su+itu}F(\,du)$  satisfies the relation
$$
\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} |R(s+it)|^k\,dt<\infty \tag11
$$
with some appropriate positive integer $k>0$, if $|s|<s_0$ with
some real number $s_0>0$. Then the distribution function $F$
satisfies\/ {\rm Property A.} }
\medskip\noindent
The conditions of the Proposition are satisfied if the distribution
function $F(x)$ satisfies Condition~(2), and it has a sufficiently
smooth density function $f(x)$. In this case the function $R(s+it)$,
as a function of the variable $t$ with some fixed number~$s$, is the
Fourier transform of the function $e^{sx}f(x)$ which tends to zero
as $t\to\infty$ sufficiently fast. Hence Condition~(11) is satisfied
in this case even with $k=1$.
 
If the distribution function $F(x)$ satisfies the conditions of the
Proposition, then formula~(11) guarantees that the distribution
function $F(x)$ or of its $k$-fold convolution with itself has an
$f(x)$ or $f_k(x)$) density function whose $n$-fold convolution
with itself is close to the standard normal density function, and
there is a good estimate is known for the difference of these density
functions. By means of this estimate a good asymptotic formula can be
given for the (existing) density function
$f_n(x|y)=\frac{\partial}{\partial x}F_n(x|y)$ of the conditional
distribution function $F_n(x|y)$ defined in formula~(8b).  By
integrating this density function we can get the proof of the {\it
Proposition.}
 
In the discussion of the next problems the details of the above
method will be worked out. The question may arise whether there
exists a different method to prove {\it Property A}. This question
is interesting in particular, because there are such conditions
among the conditions of the {\it Proposition}\/ which do not appear
among the conditions of the {\it Approximation Theorem}. Hence the
result of the {\it Proposition}\/ in its original form may only help
to prove a weaker form of the {\it Approximation Theorem.}
 
On the other hand I shall also show such an example where a
distribution function $F$ satisfies relation~(2), but if does not
satisfy {\it Property~A}. In this case the construction discussed
above is not sufficient for the proof of the {\it Approximation
Theorem.} It will be discussed how to overcome this difficulty.
 
First I formulate the result about the approximation of the density
function of normalized sums of independent, identically distributed
random variables by the standard normal density function which we
shall apply in the proof of the {\it Proposition}. This result can
be found (with different scaling) in Problem~23 of the series of
problems {\it Theory of Large Deviations I}. (At present it exists
only in Hungarian.) I shall present the proof in the Appendix.
 
\medskip\noindent
{\bf Sharp form of the local central limit theorem.} {\it Let
$X_1,X_2,\dots,$ be independent random variables with distribution
function $F$, and put $S_n=\summ_{j=1}^n X_j$. Let us assume that
the distribution function $F$ satisfies the conditions formulated
in relations~(2) and~(11). Then there exists a number $\e>0$
in such a way that the distribution function
$F_n(x)=P\(\frac{S_n}{\sqrt n}<x\)$ has a density function
$f_n(x)=\frac{dF_n(x)}{dx}$, and it satisfies the relation
$$
\aligned
f_n(x)&=\exp\left\{\frac{x^3}{\sqrt n}\lambda\(\frac
x{\sqrt n}\)\right\}\frac{e^{-x^2/2}}
{ \sqrt{ 2\pi \(1+\frac x{\sqrt n}\mu\(\frac x{\sqrt n}\)\)}}
\(1+O\(\frac1{\sqrt n}\)\)
\\ &=\varphi(x)\exp\left\{\frac{x^3}{\sqrt n}\lambda\(\frac x{\sqrt
n}\)\right\} \exp\left\{O\(\frac{1+|x|}{\sqrt n}\)\right\},
\quad\text{if } |x|\le\e\sqrt n,\text{ and }n\ge k
\endaligned \tag12a
$$
(with the number $k$ in formula (11)) where $\mu(x)$ and
$\lambda(x)$ are analytic function in a small neighbourhood of the
origin, $\varphi(x)=\frac1{\sqrt{2\pi}} e^{-x^2/2}$ is the standard
normal density function, and the error term $O(\cdot)$ is uniform
in both variables $x$ and $n$. Also the inequality
$$
f_n(x+z)\le \const f_n(x)e^{-sz\sqrt n}, \quad\text{if }
|x|\le \e\sqrt n \text{ and } n\ge k
\tag12b
$$
holds for arbitrary real number $z$, where the number $s$ is the
solution of the equation $\frac d{ds}[\log R(s)]=\frac x{\sqrt n}$
with $R(s)=\int e^{sx}F(\,dx)$. The $\const$ in formula (12b)
depends only on the distribution function $F$. Beside this, the
above introduced number $s$ satisfies the relation $s\ge0$ if
$x\ge0$, and $s<0$ if $x<0$.
 
Beside this, there exists a constant $K>0$ depending only on the
distribution $F$ (but not on the parameter $n$) such that
$$
\sup_{-\infty<x<\infty} f_n(x)\le K \quad\text{if } n\ge k \tag12c
$$
with the number~$k$ in condition (11).}
\medskip\noindent
 
Let us solve with the help of the above results the following
problems.
\medskip
\item{4.)} Let a distribution function $F$ together with a sequence
$X_1,X_2,\dots,$ of independent $F$ distributed random variables be
given such that for all sufficiently large indices $n$ the
distribution function $F_n(x)=P\(\frac {S_n}{\sqrt N}<x\)$ defined
with the help of the partial sums $S_n=\summ_{j=1}^n X_j$ has a
density function $f_n(x)$. Then the conditional distribution
function $F_n(x|y)$ defined in formula~(8b) (with the notation of
parameter $N$ instead of $n$ in that formula) has a conditional
density function $f_n(x|y)=\frac{\partial}{\partial x}F_n(x|y)$ for
all large indices $n$, (the index $n$ can be chosen so large that
the density function $f_n(x)$ exists), and it satisfies the identity
$$
f_n(x|y)=\frac{f_n\(\frac{y+x}{\sqrt 2}\)
f_n\(\frac{y-x}{\sqrt 2}\)}{f_{2n}(y)}.        \tag13a
$$
\itemitem{b)} If the distribution function $F$ satisfies relation
(12a), then the conditional density function $f_n(y|x)$ satisfies
the following version of  {\it Property A}:
$$
f_n(x|y)=\frac{e^{-x^2/2}}{\sqrt{2\pi}}
\exp\left\{O\(\frac{|x|^3+x^2|y|+|y|+1}{\sqrt n}\)\right\}, \tag13b
$$
if $0\le |x|\le \e\sqrt n$, $0\le |y|\le\e\sqrt n$ with some
appropriate number $\e>0$ and all sufficiently large index~$n$. The
error term $O(\cdot)$ in formula (13b) is uniform in its variables
$x$, $y$ and~$n$.
\item{5.)} Let a distribution function $F$ satisfy the conditions
formulated in relations~(2) and~(11). Let us show with the help of
formula (13b) the asymptotic formula
$$
F_n(\e\sqrt n|y)-F_n(x|y)
=\(1-\Phi(x)\)\exp\left\{O\(\frac{x^3+x^2|y|+|y|+1}{\sqrt
n}\)\right\} \tag14
$$
for all $n\ge n_0$ with an appropriate threshold number $n_0$ and a
sufficiently small number $\e>0$ if $0\le x\le \frac\e4\sqrt n$ and
$|y|\le \frac\e4\sqrt n$.
\item{b)} Let us give under the above conditions on the function $F$
a good upper bound on $1-F_n(\e\sqrt n)$ with the help of
relation~(12b) if
$n\ge n_0$ with a sufficient number $n_0$, $0\le x\le
\frac\e4\sqrt n$ and $|y|\le \frac\e4\sqrt n$. Prove with the help of
this estimate and the formula in (14)  that
if a distribution function $F$ satisfies both relations~(2) and~(11),
then {\it Property A}\/ holds for it.
\medskip
 
In the next problem it will be shown that there exists a
distribution function~$F$ satisfying relation~(2) but not satisfying
{\it Property A}. This counter example is based on the following
idea: Let us take a distribution function $F$ which is concentrated
on such points $x_1,x_2,\dots$ which are linearly independent over
the rational numbers, i.e.\ if $\summ_{j=1}^k r_j x_j=0$ with some
positive integer $k$ and rational numbers $r_1,\dots,r_k$, then
$r_j=0$ for all numbers $1\le j\le k$. If we choose a sequence
$X_1,\dots,X_{2n}$ of independent random variables with such a
distribution function $F$, then the value of the sum
$S_{2n}=\summ_{k=1}^{2n}X_k$ determines the value of the set of
random variables $\{X_1,\dots,X_{2n}\}$, only the indices of the
random variables in this set remain undetermined. If the set of
these random variable contains an extremely large number, then the
value of $S_n-\frac12 S_{2n}$ is very large or very small depending
on whether this value is taken by a random variable with an index
smaller or larger than $n$. Hence for an appropriate not too large
number $y$ the conditional distribution of the random variable
$\sqrt{\frac2n}(S_n-\frac12 S_{2n})$ under the condition
$S_{2n}=y\sqrt{2n}$ may strongly differ from the standard normal
distribution function.
\medskip
\item{6.)} Let $X_1,X_2,\dots$, $EX_1=0$, $EX_1^2=1$ be independent,
identically distributed random variables with expectation zero and
variance 1 which take some values $x_1,x_2,\dots$, with
probabilities $p_1,p_2,\dots$, $p_n>0$, $n=1,2,\dots$,
$\summ_{n=1}^\infty p_n=1$. Put $S_n=\summ_{k=1}^nX_k$,
$n=1,2,\dots$. Let us assume that the numbers $x_1,x_2,\dots$ and
$p_1,p_2,\dots$ satisfy the following conditions:
\itemitem{a.)} The numbers $x_1$, $x_2$, \dots are independent (in
algebraic sense) over the field of rational numbers.
\itemitem{b.)} $n<|x_n|<n+1$ and $B_1e^{-n}\le p_n\le B_2e^{-n}$
with some appropriate constants $0<B_1<B_2<\infty$ for all numbers
$n=1,2,\dots$.
\item{} Let us define a set $A_n=A_n(p,C)$ with some appropriate
constants $0<p<1$ and $C>0$. The set $A_n$ consists of such
sequences $\{x_{j_1},\dots,x_{j_{2n-1}}\}$ of length $2n-1$
whose elements belong to the above introduced numbers
$x_1,x_2,\dots$ and satisfy the following properties.
\itemitem{(i.)} $\left|\summ_{s=1}^{2n-1}x_{j_s}\right|< C\sqrt n$
\itemitem{(ii.)} Let us consider all permutations $\pi=\pi_{2n-1}
=\{\pi(1),\dots,\pi(2n-1)\}$ of the set $\{1,\dots,2n-1\}$.
There exist more than $p\binom{2n-1}{n-1}$ such permutations $\pi$
for which the inequality $\left|\summ_{s=1}^{n-1}x_{j_{\pi(s)}}
\right|<C\sqrt n$ holds.
\item{} Let us show that with an appropriate choice of the constants
$C>0$ and $0<p<1$ it can be achieved that
$P\(\left\{X_1,\dots,X_{2n-1}\right\}\in A_n\)>q$ with some constant
$q>0$ not depending on the number $n$. Moreover, it can be achieved
that this number $q>0$ be arbitrarily close to the number~1.
\item{} Given a sequence $\{x_{j_1},\dots,x_{j_{2n-1}}\}\in A_n$
put $y_1=\summ_{j=1}^{2n-1}x_{j_1}$, $m=m(y_1)=[y_1]$, where $[u]$
denotes the integer part of the number $u$, and introduce the
numbers $M=M(n)=[5m]$ and $y=\frac{y_1+x_M}{\sqrt {2n}}$. Then
$$
P\left.\(\left|\sqrt {\frac2n}\(S_n-\frac12S_{2n}\)\right|
>C\right| \frac{S_{2n}}{\sqrt{2n}}= y\)\ge \frac q2.
$$
This implies that the distribution function $F$ of the random
variables $X_1,X_2,\dots$ does not satisfy {\it Property~A}.
Moreover, the probability of the event that the normalized sum
$\frac{S_{2n}}{\sqrt{2n}}$ takes such a value $y$, for which
the conditional distribution function $F_n(x|y)$ at the left-hand
side of formula (10) satisfies the inequality
$$
\supp_{|x|<K}\left|F_n(x|y)-\Phi(x)\right|>\alpha>0
$$
with some appropriate constants $K>0$ and $\alpha>0$ is greater than
$e^{\const \sqrt n}$.
 
This means that the probability of existence of such ``bad values''
of $y$ is relatively large, if we compare it with the probability
of the event $P(|S_{2n}|\ge\e n\}$ which is exponentially small.
It was natural to compare the probability of these two events,
because {\it Property A}\/ does not supply a good approximation of
the conditional distribution function $F(x|y)$ under the condition
$S_{2n}=y\sqrt{2n}$ if $|y|\sqrt{2n}\ge \e n$.
\medskip
In Problem 6 such  a distribution function $F$ supplied the
counter example for {\it Property A}\/ which is not smooth, and
it takes large values with relatively large probability. If {\it
Property A}\/ does not hold, then the proof of the {\it Finite
Version of the Approximation Theorem} has to be modified. I
briefly sketch how this result can be proved by a slight
modification of the construction applied in its proof if the
distribution function $F$ satisfies one of the following
conditions.
 
\medskip
\item{a.)} The distribution function $F$ has a representation
$F=pG+(1-p)H$ with two distribution functions $G$ and $H$ such
$0<p\le 1$, and the distribution function $G$ has a density
function.
\item{b.)} The distribution function $F$ is the distribution of a
bounded random variable. That is, there exist some numbers
$-\infty<A<B<\infty$ such that $F(A)=0$ and $F(B)=1$.
\medskip
Beside this a Problem 8 will be formulated which enables to reduce
the proof of the {\it Finite Version  of the Approximation Theorem}
to these two special cases when either condition a) or b) is
satisfied. (Let me remark that in the counter example considered in
Problem~6 neither condition~a) nor condition~b) is satisfied.)
 
It is a natural idea that in the case of such independent and
identically distributed random variables $X_1,\dots,X_{2^n}$ whose
distribution function $F$ does not satisfy Property~A, and as a
consequence the {\it Finite Version of the Approximation Theorem}
cannot be satisfied with the help of the previous construction we
can try to overcome this difficulty by means of an appropriate
smoothing of the distribution function~$F$. We may expect that by
adding sufficiently small independent normal random variables
$\eta_i$ with expectation zero and appropriately chosen variance to
the random variables $X_i$ (which are independent of them) we get a
new sequence of independent identically distributed random variables
with smooth distribution function, hence they satisfy a slightly
modified version of Property~A. Then we may try to apply a natural
modification of the original construction in the proof of the
{\it Finite Version of the Approximation Theorem} to this new
sequence. In such a way we may prove that this new sequence of
independent random variables satisfies the {\it Finite Version of
the Approximation Theorem}. If we can do this with the help of
Gaussian random variables $\eta_i$ with sufficiently small
variances, then the result we get for the modified sequence implies
automatically the {\it Finite Version of the Approximation Theorem}\/
for the original sequence of independent random variables. I briefly
show that this program can be carried out if the distribution
function $F$ satisfies the above formulated condition~a). (Several
technical details of the proof will be omitted.) On the other hand,
we can apply this way of proof only if condition~a) holds, because
we need the contribution of the absolute continuous part of the
distribution function $F$ to get sufficiently strong smoothing effect.
 
Let $X_1,\dots,X_{2^n}$ be a sequence of independent and identically
distributed random variables with  a distribution function $F$
satisfying formula~(2) and condition~a.) and take a sequence
$\eta_1,\dots,\eta_{2^n}$ of independent normally distributed random
variables with expected value zero and variance $\sigma^2=2^{-n}$
which is independent also of the original sequence $X_1,\dots,
X_{2^n}$. Define the sequence of random variables $\bar X_k
=X_k+\eta_k$, $k=1,\dots,2^n$. The sequence $\bar X_1,\dots,
\bar X_{2^n}$ consists of independent $\bar F=\bar F^{(n)}
=F*G_{0,2^{-n}}$ distributed random variables, where $G_{0,2^{-n}}$
denotes the normal distribution with expectation zero and variance
$2^{-n}$ and is $*$ the convolution operator. If a Wiener process
$W(t)$ is given, then the method of proof of the finite version of
the {\it Finite Version of the Approximation Theorem} enables us to
construct a sequence $\bar X_1',\dots,\bar X_{2^n}'$ with the same
distribution as $\bar X_1,\dots,\bar X_{2^n}$ such that the partial
sums $S_k'=\summ_{j=1}^k\bar X_j'$, $k=1,\dots,2^n$, satisfy an
appropriate version of formulas (6) and (6a). We get this version
by replacing the random broken line $S_n(t,\oo)$ with the random
broken line which appears if we write the random variables
$\bar S_k'$ instead of $S_k'$ in formula $(1')$. Furthermore, I state
that this result also implies that a distribution function $F$
satisfying both formula~(2) and condition~a) also satisfies the
{\it Finite Version of the Approximation Theorem.}
 
The existence of a sequence $\bar X_1,\dots,\bar X_{2^n}$ with the
properties mentioned in the last paragraph can be proved by means
of the halving procedure with the help of the underlying Wiener
procedure. To prove that the random variables obtained in such a
way satisfy the appropriate version~(6) and~(6a) we have to show
that if we consider instead of the conditional distribution
$$
F_n(x|y)=\left.P\(\sqrt{\frac2n}\(S_{n}-\frac12S_{2n}\)\le x\right|
\frac{S_{2n}}{\sqrt {2n}}=y\)
$$
the conditional distribution
$$
F^{(n)}_{\bar n}(x|y)=\left.P\(\sqrt{\frac2{\bar n}}
\(\bar S_{\bar n}-\frac12\bar S_{2\bar n}\)\le x\right|
\frac{\bar S_{2{\bar n}}}{\sqrt {2\bar n}}=y\), \tag15
$$
then this new conditional distribution function satisfies an
appropriate version of {\it Property A}. In the definition of the
conditional distribution $F^{(n)}_{\bar n}(x|y)$ we have introduced
a new parameter $\bar n$, and considered the partial sums
$\bar S_{\bar n}=\summ_{j=1}^{\bar n}\bar X_j$, and give an
estimate of the closeness of the conditional distribution function
$F^{(n)}_{\bar n}(x|y)$ and the standard normal distribution
function depending on both parameters $n$ and $\bar n$. (In the
applications we have in mind the parameter~$n$ is fixed at the start
as we consider a sequence of length $2^n$ and choose Gaussian random
variables with variance $2^{-n}$. In the successive application
of the halving procedure we have to investigate the conditional
distribution functions $F^{(n)}_{\bar n}(x|y)$ with different
parameters $\bar n=2^{n-l}$, $l=1,\dots,n$.) Actually it is enough
to prove a good result on the asymptotic behavior of the conditional
distribution function $F^{(n)}_{\bar n}(x|y)$ only in the case
$\bar n\ge Kn$ with an appropriate (large) number $K>0$ not depending
on the number~$n$. (To understand why such a reduced version of
this estimate is sufficient for our purposes we have to remember
that the fluctuation of the Wiener process $W(t,\oo)$ and random
broken line process $\bar S_n(t,\oo)$ is relatively small in small
intervals. A detailed calculation shows that the fluctuations of
these processes is sufficiently small for our purposes in intervals
of length $[0,Kn]$. I formulate the version of Property~A we need
in this case.
\medskip\noindent
{\bf The definition of the modified version of Property A.} {\it We
say that a sequence of independent identically distributed random
variables $X_1,X_2,\dots,$ with distribution function $F$ satisfies
the modified version of Property~A, if the conditional distribution
functions $F^{(n)}_{\bar n}(x|y)$ defined in formula~(15) satisfy
the following asymptotic relation. There exists some numbers $\e>0$,
$K>0$ and threshold index $n_0$ such that
$$
\aligned
1-F^{(n)}_{\bar n}(x|y)&=(1-\Phi(x))
\exp\left\{O\(\frac{x^3+x^2|y|+|y|+1}{\sqrt{\bar n}}\)\right\}\\
&\qquad\quad\text{if }\bar n\ge Kn,\; 0\le x\le \e\sqrt{\bar n},\;
\;0\le |y|\le\e\sqrt{\bar n}\\
F^{(n)}_{\bar n}(-x|y)&=(1-\Phi(x))
\exp\left\{O\(\frac{x^3+x^2|y|+|y|+1}{\sqrt{\bar n}}\)\right\}\\
&\qquad\quad\text{if }\bar n\ge Kn,\;0\le x\le \e\sqrt{\bar n},\;
\;0\le |y|\le\e\sqrt{\bar n}, \endaligned \tag10a
$$
holds, where $\Phi(x)$ is the standard normal distribution function,
and the error term $O(\cdot)$ is uniform in the variables $x$, $y$,
$n$ and $\bar n$.}
\medskip
 
To prove the {\it Modified version of Property A} \/ if the
distribution function $F$ satisfies relation (2) and condition~a)
in the same way as the original {\it Property~A} was proved it is
enough to show that the density functions $f^{(n)}_{\bar n}(x)$
of the normalized partial sums $\frac{\bar S_{\bar n}}
{\sqrt {\bar n}}=\frac1{\sqrt{\bar n}}\summ_{j=1}^{\bar n}\bar X_j$
satisfy such a version of relations (12a) and (12b) in the {\it Sharp
form of the local central limit theorem}\/ where the number $n$ is
replaced by $\bar n$ everywhere at the right-hand side of these
relations, and it is assumed that $\bar n\ge Kn$.
 
This version of the {\it Sharp form of the Local Central
Limit Theorem}\/ can be proved by the method of the solution of
Problem~23 in the {\it Theory of Large Deviations~I.}\/ if the
distribution function~$F(x)$ satisfies condition~a.).
The main idea of the proof is that the density function we want
to estimate can be expressed by the inverse Fourier transform
of the characteristic function, or by the analytic continuation
of this formula, provided that the characteristic function and its
analytic continuation is an integrable function. Beside this, the
expression we get in such a way can be well investigated.
 
We have to study the expressions in the following identity:
$$
\sqrt {\bar n}f^{(n)}(\sqrt{\bar n}x)=\frac1{2\pi}\int
e^{(is-t)x}\frac{\bar R_{\bar n}(s+it)}{\bar R_{\bar n}(it)}\,ds,
$$
where $\bar R_{\bar n}(s+it)=\(R(s+it)e^{2^{-n-1}(t^2-s^2)}\)
^{\bar n}$, and $R(s+it)=\int e^{(is-t)x}F(\,dx)$ is the analytic
continuation of the characteristic function of the $F(x)$
distribution function. This means that $\bar R_{\bar n}(s+it)$ is
the analytic continuation of the distribution function
$F^{(n)}_{\bar n}(x)$. This function, as the function of the
variable $s$ with a fixed parameter~$t$ is integrable, since the
function $e^{2^{-n-1}(t^2-s^2)}$ is integrable, and the function
$R(s+it)$ is bounded. But in the proof of the modified version
of the {\it Sharp form of the Local Central Limit Theorem}\/ we
need some more information. We have to know that the integral
expressing the density function as the inverse Fourier transform
of the characteristic function and its analytic continuation
is essentially localized in a small neighbourhood of the origin,
where the integrand can be well estimated. Condition~a) was imposed
to guarantee this property. The consequence of condition~a) needed
for us is formulated in the following Problem~7.
\medskip
\item{7.)} If the distribution function $F$ satisfies condition~a),
then for all numbers $A>0$ and $B>0$ there exists some number
$\alpha=\alpha(A,B)<1$ such that
$$
\left|\frac{R(s+it)}{R(it)}\right|<\alpha\quad\text{if }
|s|>A\quad\text {and}\quad |t|<B,
$$
where $R(s+it)=\int e^{(is-t)x}F(\,dx)$.
\medskip
The result of Problem~7 together with the fact that the function
$e^{2^{-n-1}\bar n(t^2-s^2)}$ (as a function of the variable~$s$
with a fixed~$t$) is integrable, and the integral of this function
is not too large, guarantees that the localization property we
need in the proof of the modified version of the {\it Sharp form of
the Local Central Limit Theorem}\/ can be proved if condition~a)
holds, and $\bar n\ge Kn$. Here I omit the discussion of the
technical details.
\medskip
{\it The Finite version of the Approximation Theorem}\/ also holds
if condition b) holds, but in this case we can prove this statement
with the help of a modified version of the construction and with
different justification of this method.
 
In this case we can apply the following modified version of the
halving procedure. We have a Wiener process $W(t,\oo)$, $0\le t\le
2^n$, at the start. Step zero of our procedure is carried out in
the usual way; the random sum $S_{2^n}(\oo)$ is defined as the
quantile transform of the random variable $W(2^n,\oo)$, of the
value of the Wiener process $W(t,\oo)$ in its end-point $t=2^n$.
After this we construct in the knowledge of the value of the
random sum $S_{2^n}(\oo)$ the set of random variables
$\{X_1(\oo),\dots,X_{2^n}(\oo)\}$ with the right conditional
distribution in such a way that their sum equal $S_{2^n}(\oo)$.
In the construction of this set we apply beside the random variable
$S_{2^n}(\oo)$ such random variables which are independent of the
Wiener process $W(t,\oo)$. At this step we define the value of
all random variables $\{X_1(\oo),\dots,X_{2^n}(\oo)\}$, but do not
tell their indices. Let us observe that the conditional distribution
of all possible indexations of this set under the condition that the
set of values of our random variables is prescribed, only the index of
the random variable which takes a given value is not known  has the
same probability $(2^{n}!)^{-1}$. If we define the indexation in such a
way that the probability of all possible indexation equals
$(2^{n}!)^{-1}$ in the case of all possible set of values
$\{X_1(\oo),\dots,X_{2^n}(\oo)\}$, then the random variables
$X_1(\oo),\dots,X_{2^n}(\oo)$ constructed in such a way are
independent with distribution $F$. On the other hand, we want to
make this random indexation in such a way that the random sums
$S_k(\oo)=\summ_{j=1}^kX_k(\oo)$ be close to $W(k,\oo)$, to the
value of the Wiener process $W(t,\oo)$ in the point $t=k$ for all
values $1\le k\le 2^n$ $W(k,\oo)$.
 
We define the indexation by an inductive procedure. In the first
step of this procedure we tell with the help of the random variable
$2W(2^{n-1},\oo)-W(2^n,\oo)$ which elements of the set
$\{X_1(\oo),\dots,X_{2^n}(\oo)\}$ have an index less than or equal to
$2^{n-1}$, and which elements have an index greater than $2^{n-1}$.
We want to do this in such a way that all subsets of the set
$\{1,2,\dots,2^n\}$ with $2^{n-1}$ elements is chosen with
the same probability for the set of indices of the (random) subset
$\{X_1(\oo),\dots,X_{2^{n-1}}(\oo)\}$. Let us observe that by
defining this set we also define the value of the random variable
$2S_{2^{n-1}}(\oo)-S_{2^n}(\oo)$. We want to make the first step of
the construction in such a way (with the help of the quantile
transformation) that the difference
$\[2W(2^{n-1},\oo)-W(2^n,\oo)\]-\[2S_{2^{n-1}}(\oo)-S_{2^n}(\oo)\]$
be small. We try to make a similar construction also in the subsequent
steps of the procedure.
 
After the $l$-th step of our construction we have determined  the
random sets
$$
\{X_{k2^{n-l}+1}(\oo),\dots,X_{(k+1)2^{n-l}}(\oo)\},\quad
0\le k\le 2^l-1,
$$
but we do not know the indices of the individual random variables
in this set. In the $l+1$-th step we tell with the help of the
random variable
$$
[W((2k+1)2^{n-l-1},\oo)-W(k2^{n-l}+1,\oo)]
-[W((k+1)2^{n-l},\oo)-W((2k+1)2^{n-l-1},\oo)]
$$
which elements of this set have an index less than or equal to
$(2k+1)2^{n-l-1}$. We choose this random set of indices in such a way
that all subsets of $\{k2^{n-l}+1,k2^{n-l}+2,\dots,(k+1)2^{n-l}\}$
of $2^{n-l-1}$ elements are chosen with the same probability for
this set. Beside this, we make this halving of the sets
$\{k2^{n-l}+1,k2^{n-l}+2,\dots,(k+1)2^{n-l}\}$ for different indices
$k$, $0\le k<2^l$, independently of each other. We also want to
achieve (with the application of the conditional quantile transform)
that the random variables
$$
[W((2k+1)2^{n-l-1},\oo)-W(k2^{n-l}+1,\oo)]
-[W((k+1)2^{n-l},\oo)-W((2k+1)2^{n-l-1},\oo)] \tag16a
$$
and
$$
[S_{(2k+1)2^{n-l-1}}(\oo)-S_{k2^{n-l}+1}(\oo)]
-[S_{(k+1)2^{n-l}}(\oo)-S_{(2k+1)(2^{n-l-1)}}(\oo)]   \tag16b
$$
be close to each other.
 
We make the $l+1$-th step of the halving procedure by defining
first the random variables in (16b) by calculating the
distributions of the expressions in (16b) (which depends on the
elements in the $k$-th block, hence on the number of index $k$, and
then by constructing the random variables in (16b) by means of the
quantile transform from the random variables in (16a). In such a way
we prescribe the value of the random sums
$S_{(2k+1)2^{n-l-1}}(\oo)-S_{k2^{n-l}+1}(\oo)$ for all
$k=1,\dots,2^l$. If it determines the value of the terms taking part
in this sum in a unique way, then the indices of the terms in this
sum constitute the set $\{k2^{n-l}+1,\dots,(2k+1)2^{n-2},\}$. If
there are several possibilities for writing down this random variable
as the sum of $2^{n-l-1}$ terms of the prescribed numbers, then
we choose one of them randomly, by choosing all possibilities with
equal probability, and the indices of these terms will belong to the
set $\{k2^{n-l}+1,\dots,(2k+1)2^{n-l-1},\}$. Let us also observe that
the random variables in (16a) are independent for different indices
$l$ or $k$. This fact guarantees the independence we need in the
halving procedure.
 
Let us remark that in the case when the distribution function $F$ of
the random variables $X_k(\oo)$, $1\le k\le 2^n$, is concentrated in
a set of numbers linearly independent over the set of rational numbers
(such a case was considered in the counter example of Problem~6)
then the previously described construction agrees with the original
construction in the proof of {\it The finite version of the
approximation theorem}. We want to show that if the distribution
function $F$ satisfies condition~b), then the above construction
satisfies the desired estimate. This means that if the random
variables with distribution $F$ are bounded, then a situation
similar to the counter example of Problem~6 cannot appear.
To prove that the construction described above yields the above
result we need the following theorem.
\medskip\noindent
{\bf Theorem B.} {\it Let $2N$ real numbers $x_1,\dots,x_{2N}$
be given which satisfy the condition
$$
\max\limits_{1\le k\le 2N}|x_k|\le K,\qquad\text{and}\quad
\sigma^2=\sum_{k=1}^{2N}(x_k-\bar x)^2\ge cN,\quad\text{if} \quad
\bar x=\frac1{2N}\sum_{k=1}^{2N}x_k
$$
with appropriate constants $K>0$ and $c>0$. Let us choose randomly
one of the permutations $\{\pi(1),\dots,\pi(2N)\}$ of the numbers
$1,\dots,2N$, by choosing all possible permutations with probability
$\frac1{(2N)!}$, and define the random variable
$$
S_N=\(x_{\pi(1)}+\cdots+x_{\pi(N)}\)-
\(x_{\pi(N+1)}+\cdots+x_{\pi(2N)}\)
$$
It satisfies the following form of the central limit theorem and
its large deviation version:
$$
\align
P\(S_N>\sigma x\sqrt N\)&=\(1-\Phi\(\frac x{\sqrt
N}\)\)\exp\left\{O\(\frac{x^3+1}{\sqrt N}\)\right\},\\
P\(S_N<-\sigma x\sqrt N\)&=\Phi\(-\frac x{\sqrt
N}\)\exp\left\{O\(\frac{x^3+1}{\sqrt N}\)\right\}
\endalign
$$
for all numbers $0\le \e\sqrt N$ with some appropriate number
$\e=\e(c,K)>0$, where the error term $O(\cdot)$ means the
absolute value of the difference of the left-hand side and the main
term at the right-hand side is less than $B\frac{x^3+1}{\sqrt N}$
with a constant $B$ depending only on the parameters $C$ and $K$,
but not on the numbers $x$ and $N$.}
\medskip
The proof of the (non-trivial) Theorem~B will be omitted. It can
be found in the proof of Lemma~3 of the work of J\'anos Koml\'os,
P\'eter Major and G\'abor Tusn\'ady {\it An approximation of
Partial Sums of Independent RV'-s and the Sample DF. II.}\/
Zeitschrift f\"ur Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie {\bf~34} (1976) 34--58.
Here I only present a heuristic explanation of this result. I also
omit the details of the proof of the {\it Finite Version of the
Approximation Theorem}\/ in the case when condition~b) holds.
 
Let us make a random pairing $(x_{j_{2k}},x_{j_{2k+1}})$,
$1\le k\le N$, of the numbers $x_1,\dots,x_{2N}$, define
independent, identically distributed random variables
$r_1,\dots,r_N$ such that $P(r_k=1)=P(r_k=-1)=\frac12$,
$1\le k\le N$, and introduce the random variable
$U=\summ_{k=1}^N r_k \(x_{j_{2k}}-x_{j_{2k+1}}\)$. The random
variable $U$ is the sum of independent random variables with
expectation zero, hence we can estimate its distribution well by
means of a normal distribution function with expectation zero and
appropriate variance. But this variance depends on the
pairing $(x_{j_{2k}},x_{j_{2k+1}})$, $1\le k\le N$, of the numbers
we consider. The distribution of the random variable $S_N$
considered in Theorem~B equals the average of the distributions of
the (almost normal) random variables $U$ corresponding to all
possible pairings of the numbers $x_1,\dots,x_{2N}$. To prove that
this average satisfies the statement of Theorem~B it is enough to
show that the variances of the distributions taking part in this
average are typically very close to the number $N\sigma^2$. The
proof of this non-trivial statement is the most important step of
the proof.
 
In the next step I formulate Problem~8 which enables us to reduce
the proof of the {\it Finite Version of the Approximation Theorem}\/
to the two special cases when the distribution function $F$ of the
independent random variables we are investigating satisfies either
condition~a) or condition~b).
\medskip
\item{8.)} Let us fix some distribution functions $F_1$, $F_2$ and
$G_1$, $G_2$. Let $S^{i}_n$, and $T^{i}_n$, $n=1,2,\dots$, be the
sequences of partial sums of independent, identically distributed
random variables with distribution functions $F_i$ and $G_i$,
$i=1,2$. Let us fix some number $0\le p\le 1$ and define the
distribution functions $F=pF_1+(1-p)F_2$ and $G=pG_1+(1-p)G_2$.
Let us show that some pairs $S_n$ and $T_n$, $n=1,2,\dots$, of
sequences of partial sums of independent, identically distributed
random variables can be constructed with distribution functions $F$
and $G$ in such a way that they satisfy the relation
$$
\align
&P\(\supp_{1\le j\le n}\left|S_j-T_j\right|\ge a+b\) \\
&\qquad \le P\(\supp_{1\le j\le n}\left|S^{(1)}_j-T^{(1)}_j\right|\ge
a\)+ P\(\supp_{1\le j\le n}\left|S^{(2)}_j-T^{(2)}_j\right|\ge b\)
\endalign
$$
for arbitrary real numbers $a>0$, $b>0$ and integer $n>0$.
\item{} Let us reduce with the help of the above statement the proof
of the {\it Finite Version of the Approximation Theorem}\/
to the two special cases when the distribution function
$F$ of the independent random variables we are investigating
satisfy one of the conditions~a) or~b).
\medskip
In the next problems we investigate the converse of the above
Approximation Theorem, that is we are interested in the question which
are the lower bounds for the possibility of approximation of partial
sums with Wiener process or of normalized the empirical distribution
function by Brownian bridge. The proof of these lower bounds is based
on such estimates which give a lower bound on the possibility of
approximation of the distribution function of partial sums of
independent random variables by means of a normal distribution function.
These estimates belong to the estimates of the theory of the central
limit theorem and large deviation theory. Because of some technical
reasons it is more convenient to work with the moment generating
functions of our random variables instead of their distribution. The
result of the next Problem~9 has such a content.
 
\medskip
\item{9.)} Let $F(x)$ be such a distribution function for which the
moment generating function $R(s)=\int e^{sx}F(\,dx)$
exists in some interval $-a<s<a$, $a>0$. The value of the moment
generating function  $R(s)$ in the interval $[-a,a]$ uniquely
determines the distribution function $F(x)$. (This number $a>0$ can
be chosen sufficiently small.)
\medskip
In the next problem we prove formula~(5) in the case when the random
variable~$X$ has moment generating function in a small neighbourhood
of the origin.
\medskip
\item{10.)} Let $X_1,X_2,\dots$, be a sequence of independent,
identically distributed random variables which satisfy the relation
$R(2s)=Ee^{2sX_1}<\infty$ with some number $s>0$. Let us fix some
positive integer~$n$ and define the random variables
$S_{k,n}=\summ_{j=kn+1}^{k(n+1)}X_j$, $k=1,2,\dots$. Let us choose
a sufficiently large number
$A>0$ and put $N(n)=e^{An}$. Then the relation
$$
\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac1{N(n)R^n(s)}\sum_{k=1}^{N(n)}
e^{sS_{k,n}}=1\quad\text{with probability 1} \tag17
$$
holds if $A>0$ is sufficiently large ($N(n)=e^{An}$), and
$R(s)=Ee^{sX_1}$.
\item{} Let $Y_1,Y_2,\dots$, be a sequence of independent random
variables with standard normal distribution and put
$T_{k,n}=\summ_{j=kn+1}^{k(n+1)}$ with some appropriate real
number~$n$. Let us observe that such a version of relation~(17)
holds in which the random variable $S_{k,n}$ is replaced by
$T_{k,n}$ and the moment generating function $R(s)$ by
$\bar R(s)=Ee^{sY_1}=e^{s^2/2}$. Furthermore by the result of the
previous problem there exists an arbitrary small number $s>0$ for
which $R(s)\neq\bar R(s)$ if $X_1$ is not a standard normal random
variable. Let us prove with the help of the above observation
formula~(5) if the random variable  $X_1$ has moment generating
function formula~(5) in a small neighbourhood of the origin.
\medskip
The result of the next problem is about approximation of the
normalized empirical distribution function by a Brownian bridge,
and it is the analog of the previous result.
\medskip
\item{11.)} Let $Z_n(t)$, $0\le t\le1$, be a normalized empirical
distribution with $n$ sample points. (This means that there are
$n$ independent random variables $\xi_1,\dots,\xi_n$ with uniform
distribution on the interval $[0,1]$, and we consider the random
process $Z_n(t)=\frac1{\sqrt n}\(P_n(t)-nt\)$, where
$P_n(t)=\summ_{j=1}^nI(\xi_j<t)$, and $I(A)$ denotes the indicator
function of the set~$A$.) Beside this, let $X_n(t)$, $0\le t\le 1$,
be a Brownian bridge on the same probability space where the random
process $Z_n(t)$ is defined. (The distribution of the process
$X_n(t)$ does not depend on the number~$n$.) Let us fix a
sufficiently small number $c>0$, and define the numbers
$u_k=k\frac{c\log n}n$, $0\le k\le M(n)$, where $M(n)
=\[\frac n{c\log n}\]$, and $[\cdot]$ denotes integer part. Let us fix
the random variables $U_k=\sqrt n\(X(u_k)-X(u_{k-1})\)$ and
$V_k=U_{k,n}=\sqrt n\(Z_n(u_k)-Z_n(u_{k-1})\)$, $1\le k\le M(n)$
Fix a number $t>0$ and prove the following relations:
$$
\align
&\frac1{M(n)\bar R(n)}\sum_{k=1}^{M(n)} e^{t V_k}\Rightarrow 1\\
&\frac1{M(n)R(n)}\sum_{k=1}^{M(n)} e^{t U_k}\Rightarrow 1
\endalign
$$
where the number $c>0$ is sufficiently small, and $\Rightarrow$
denotes stochastic convergence,
$$
\align
&\bar R(n)=Ee^{tV_1}=\exp\left\{c\log
n(e^t-1-t)+O\(\frac{(\log n)^2}n\)\right\},
\intertext{and}
&R(n)=Ee^{tU_1}=\exp\left\{\frac12
c\log n\(1-\frac{c\log n}n\)\right\}.
\endalign
$$
\item{} Let us show with the help of the above statements that
there exists a sufficiently small number $K>0$ such that
$$
P\(\sqrt n \sup_{0\le t\le 1}\(Z_n(t)-X_n(t)\)>K\log n\)\to1
\quad\text{if }n\to\infty.
$$
\medskip
In the next problem we consider the sequence of independent,
identically distributed random variables and the partial sums made
from them in the case when some moment type function of these random
variables in infinite. We shall show that in this case the fluctuation
between the neighbouring terms of the partial sums is sometimes very
large, and this yields a lower bound for the approximation of these
partial sums by the partial sums of independent standard normal random
variables. A Special case of this result is {\it Statement 2}\/
which also contains that part of {\it Statement~1}\/ not considered
in Problem~10 which deals with the case when the random variables we
consider have no distribution function.
\medskip
\item{12.)} Let $X_1,X_2,\dots$, be a sequence of independent and
uniformly distributed random variables, and put
$S_n=\summ_{k=1}^nX_k$, $n=1,2,\dots$, $X_k^+=\max(X_k,0)$,
$k=1,2,\dots$. Let $H(x)$ be a continuous, strictly monotone function
defined on the set of non-negative real numbers for which
$H(0)=0$, $\limm_{x\to\infty}H(x)=\infty$, the numbers $K_n$,
$n=1,2,\dots$ as the solution of the equation $H(x)=n$. Then
$$
\align
S_n-S_{n-1}\ge K_n\quad &\text{with probability 1 for infinitely many
indices } n\\
&\qquad\text{if and only if } EH(X_1^+)=\infty
\endalign
$$
\item{} Let $E H(X_1^+)=\infty$, and let us also assume that
$H(x)\le e^{\alpha x}$ with some number $\alpha>0$.
 Let $Y_1,Y_2,\dots$ be a sequence of independent random
variables with standard normal distribution function, and
put $T_n=\summ_{k=1}^n X_k$, $n=1,2,\dots$. Then
$$
\limsup_{n\to\infty}\frac{|S_n-T_n|}{2K_n}\ge1 \quad \text{with
probability 1.} \tag18
$$
In particular, if $Ee^{\alpha X_1^+}=\infty$ or $Ee^{\alpha
X_1^-}=\infty$ with some number $\alpha>0$, where
$X_1^-=-\min(X_1,0)$, then relation (18) holds with the choice
$K_n=\frac1\alpha \log n$. If $E|X_1|^r=\infty$ with some number
$r>0$, then relation (18) holds with the choice $K_n=Cn^{1/r}$,
where $C>0$ can be arbitrarily large fixed positive number.
\medskip
In the last two problems such results are considered which may be
useful in an overview of this subject.
\medskip
\item{13.)} Let $X_n$, $n=1,2,\dots$, be a sequence  of independent
random variables with normal distribution such that $EX_n=0$,
$EX_n^2=\sigma_n^2$, $0<\sigma_n<1$, $n=1,2,\dots$, and
$\limm_{n\to\infty}\sigma_n^2=1$. Let us introduce the sequence of
the partial sums $S_n=\summ_{k=1}^nX_k$, $n=1,2,\dots$. There exists
such a sequence $Y_n$, $n=1,2,\dots$, (for instance the choice
$Y_n=\frac{X_n}{\sigma_n}$, $n=1,2,\dots$, is an appropriate choice)
for which the partial sums $T_n=\summ_{k=1}^n Y_k$,
$n=1,2,\dots$, satisfy the relation
$$
\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{|S_n-T_n|}{\sqrt{n\log \log n}}=0\quad\text
{with probability 1}.
$$
On the other hand this relation is sharp. To formulate this
statement more explicitly let us define the numbers
$D_n^2=\summ_{k=2^{n-1}+1}^{2^n}\sigma_k^2$. Let us show that for
an arbitrary sequence $u_n$, $u_n\ge1$, $n=1,2,\dots$, the event
$$
S_{2^n}-S_{2^{n-1}}\ge  D_n u_n
$$
holds with probability 1 for infinitely or finitely many indices
$n$ depending on the convergence or divergence of the sum
$\summ_{n=1}^\infty \frac{e^{-u_n^2/2}}{u_n}$. Let us show with the
help of this result that for every sequence $f(n)$, $f(n)>0$,
$n=1,2,\dots$, such that  $\limm_{n\to\infty}f(n)=\infty$, there
exists a sequence $\sigma_n$, $0<\sigma_n\le1$,
$\limm_{n\to\infty}\sigma_n=1$, $n=1,2,\dots$, such that if $X_n$,
$n=1,2,\dots$, is a sequence of independent Gaussian random
variables with expectation zero and variance $EX_n^2=\sigma_n^2$,
$Y_n$, $n=1,2,\dots$, is a sequence of independent standard normal
random variables, and $S_n$ and $T_n$, $n=1,2,\dots$, denotes the
partial sums of these random variables, then they satisfy the
relation
$$
\limsup_{n\to\infty}f(n)\frac{|S_n-T_n|}{\sqrt{n\log \log n}}
=\infty\quad\text{with probability 1.}
$$
\item{14.)} Let four urns be given. Let us throw $M$ balls to
these urns independently of each other in such a way that every
ball falls with the same probability $\frac14$ in each urn.
Let $X_j=X_j(M)$, $j=1,2,3,4$, denote the number of balls falling
in the $j$-th urn. Let us prove the identity which tells
the conditional probability of the event that a prescribed number of
balls fall into the first urn, under the condition that the number
of balls falling in the first and second urn and the number of the
balls falling in the first or third urn is prescribed.
(This condition can be rewritten in an equivalent form by prescribing
the number of balls falling in the third or fourth urns and the
number of balls falling in the second and fourth urns.) Let us prove
the following identity:
$$
P(X_1=k|X_1+X_2=U,X_1+X_3=V)=\frac{\binom Uk\binom{M-U}{V-k}}
{\binom MV}
$$
under the condition that $0\le U\le M$, $0\le V\le M$,
$0\le k\le\min (U,V)$.
 
 
\beginsection Solutions.
 
\item{4.} To prove relation (13a) let us first make the following
observation. If $(X,Y)$ are two random variables whose joint
distribution has a density function $g(x,y)$, then the conditional
distribution $G(x|y)=P(2^{-1/2}(Y-X)<x|2^{-1/2}(Y+X)=y)$ has a
density function for all parameters $y$, and it equals
$g(x|y)=\frac{g\(\frac{y-x}{\sqrt2},\frac{y+x}{\sqrt2}\)}
{\sqrt2h\({\sqrt2}y\)}$, where
$h(y)=\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}h(u,y-u)\,du$
is the density function of the random variable $X+Y$. We get formula
(13a) by applying this relation with the choice $X=n^{-1/2}S_n$,
$Y=n^{-1/2}(S_{2n}-S_n)$. Indeed, since $X$ and $Y$ are independent
random variables with density function $f_n(x)$, hence their joint
density exists, and it equals $g(x,y)=f_n(x)f_n(y)$. Beside this,
$h_n(y)=\frac1{\sqrt2}f_{2n}\(\frac y{\sqrt2}\)$. (Let us remark that
if the $k$-th power of the Fourier transform is integrable,
then the partial sums $S_n$ have a density function for $n\ge k$.)
 
\item{} Formulas (12a) and (13a) imply that
$$
\align
f_n(x|y)&=\frac{\varphi\(\frac{y+x}{\sqrt 2}\)
\varphi\(\frac{y-x}{\sqrt2}\)}{\varphi(y)}
\exp\biggl\{ n\biggl(\(\frac{x+y}{\sqrt{2n}}\)^3
\lambda\(\frac{x+y}{\sqrt{2n}}\)\\
&\qquad+\(\frac{y-x}{\sqrt{2n}}\)^3 \lambda\(\frac{x-y}
{\sqrt{2n}}\)-2\(\frac{y}{\sqrt{2n}}\)^3\lambda\(\frac y{\sqrt{2n}}\)
\biggr)\biggr\} \\
&\qquad\qquad \exp\left\{O\(\frac{1+|x|+|y|}{\sqrt n}\)\right\} \tag A1
\endalign
$$
if $|x|\le\e\sqrt n$ and $|y|\le\e\sqrt n$ with a sufficiently small
$\e>0$. To get a good asymptotic on the right-hand side of
formula~(A1) introduce  the function $\bar\lambda(u)=u^3\lambda(u)$.
This function is, together with the function $\lambda(u)$, analytic
in a small neighbourhood of zero. Hence a Taylor expansion around
the point $v$ yields that
$\bar\lambda(v+u)+\bar\lambda(v-u)-2\bar\lambda(u)
=\bar\lambda''(v)u^2+O(u^4)=O(|v|u^2+u^4)$ if $|u|\le\e$,
$|v|\le \e$ with some sufficiently small $\e>0$, and the $O(\cdot)$
is uniform in both variables $u$ and $v$. At the end of the above
estimate we have exploited that $|\bar \lambda''(v)|\le\const |v|$
in a small neighbourhood of zero. By applying the above formula
with $u=\frac x{\sqrt{2n}}$ and $v=\frac u{\sqrt{2n}}$ we get that
$$
\align
&n\(\(\frac{x+y}{\sqrt{2n}}\)^3
\lambda\(\frac{x+y}{\sqrt{2n}}\)
+\(\frac{y-x}{\sqrt{2n}}\)^3 \lambda\(\frac{x-y}
{\sqrt{2n}}\)-2\(\frac{y}{\sqrt{2n}}\)^3\lambda\(\frac y{\sqrt{2n}}\)
\) \\
&=O\(\frac{x^2|y|}{\sqrt n}+\frac{x^4}{n}\)
=O\(\frac{x^2|y|+|x|^3}{\sqrt n}\)
\endalign
$$
if $|x|\le\e\sqrt n$ and $|y|\le\e\sqrt n$.
 
\item{} Hence relation (A1) yields that
$$
\align
f_n(x|y)&=\varphi(x)
\exp\left\{O\(\frac{x^2|y|+|x|^3+1+|x|+|y|}{\sqrt n}\)\right\}\\
&=\varphi(x)
\exp\left\{O\(\frac{x^2|y|+|x|^3+1+|y|}{\sqrt n}\)\right\}
\endalign
$$
if $|x|\le \e\sqrt n$, $|y|\le\e\sqrt n$ with a sufficiently small
$\e>0$, as we claimed.
\item{5.)} Because of formula (13b) there exists such constant $K>0$
such that
$$
\aligned
&\(1-\frac {K(|y|+1)}{\sqrt n}\)\int_x^{\e\sqrt n}
\frac1{\sqrt{2\pi}}
\exp\left\{-\frac{s^2}2 \(1+K\frac{s+|y|}{\sqrt n}\) \right\}\,ds \\
&\qquad\le F_n(\sqrt n\e|y)-F_n(x|y)=\int_x^{\sqrt n\e}f_n(s|y)\,ds\\
&\qquad\qquad\le \(1+\frac {K(|y|+1)}{\sqrt n}\)\int_x^{\e\sqrt n}
\frac1{\sqrt{2\pi}}
\exp\left\{-\frac{s^2}2\(1-K\frac{s+|y|}{\sqrt n}\)\right\}\,ds
\endaligned \tag A2
$$
if $0\le x\le\frac\e4\sqrt n$, $|y|\le\frac\e4\sqrt n$.
 
\item{} To get a good estimate for the upper and lower bound in
formula (A2) let us take the change of variable $v^2(s)=
s^2\(1+K\frac{s+|y|}{\sqrt n}\)$ to bound the integral in the
lower bound and the change of variable
$u^2(s)=s^2\(1-K\frac{s+|y|}{\sqrt n}\)$ to bound the integral in the
upper bound. In the next calculations I show that $\dfrac{ds}{du}-1$
and $\dfrac{ds}{dv}-1$ are very small, hence their contribution to
the integrals we get after the change of variables can be considered
as part of the error term. In the following calculations I shall
assume that $n\ge n_0$ with some appropriate threshold index $n_0$.
In this case all steps we shall do is legitime.
 
\item{} The inequality $u(s)\le s$ holds, beside this $u(s)\ge\frac34s$
if $\e\ge 0$ is sufficiently small, and $x\le s\le \sqrt n\e$. Hence
we can write $\frac{ds}{du}=\frac u{s\(1-\frac {K|y|}{\sqrt n}
-\frac{3Ks}{2\sqrt n}\)} \le \frac1{\(1-\frac {K|y|}{\sqrt n}
-\frac{3Ks}{2\sqrt n}\)}\le 1+\frac{4K}{\sqrt n}(u+|y|)$. Similarly,
we can write $\frac{ds}{dv}\ge 1-\frac{4K}{\sqrt n}(v+|y|)$, $x\le
s\le\e\sqrt n$. Thus we get from relation (A2) that
$$
\aligned
&\(1-\frac{K(|y|+1)}{\sqrt n}\)\int_{v(x)}^{\e\sqrt n}
\frac1{\sqrt{2\pi}} e^{-v^2/2}\(1-\frac{4K}{\sqrt n}(v+|y|)\)\,dv \\
&\qquad\le F_n(\sqrt n\e|y)-F_n(x|y)\\
&\qquad\qquad\le\(1+\frac {K(|y|+1)}{\sqrt n}\)\int_{u(x)}^{\e\sqrt n}
\frac1{\sqrt{2\pi}} e^{-u^2/2}\(1+\frac{4K}{\sqrt n}(u+|y|)\)\,du
\endaligned \tag A3
$$
with $v(x)=x\(1+\frac K{\sqrt n}(x+|y|)\)^{1/2}$ and
$u(x)=x\(1-\frac K{\sqrt n}(x+|y|)\)^{1/2}$. (Since $v(x)\ge x$ and
$u(x)\le x$, we have decreased the lower bound and increased the upper
bound in (A3) by writing $\e\sqrt n$ as the upper bound in the
integral, and this is allowed.)
 
\item{} To estimate the expressions in formula (A3) let us observe
that the primitive function of $ue^{-u^2/2}$ is $-e^{-u^2/2}$, and
the standard normal distribution and density functions can be well
compared. The following calculation is useful for us if we want to
rewrite formula (A3) in a form more appropriate for us:
$K(x+1)[\Phi(v(x)-\Phi(\e\sqrt n)]\le\varphi(v(x)-\varphi(\e\sqrt n)
\le\varphi(u(x)-\varphi(\e\sqrt n)\le K(x+1)[\Phi(u(x)-\Phi(\e\sqrt
n)]$ with some appropriate $K>0$, where $\varphi(\cdot)$ denotes
the standard normal density and $\Phi(\cdot)$ the standard normal
distribution function. In the proof of this relation we can exploit
that $\frac x2\le v(x)\le u(x)\le2x\le \frac e2\sqrt n$. In
particular, the contribution of the term $\Phi(\e\sqrt n)$ is
negligible in the above estimates. Some calculation with the help of
the above bound and relation~(A3) yield the following estimate.
There exists some constant $\bar K>0$ depending only on the
distribution function $F$ such that
$$
\aligned
&\(1-\frac{\bar K(|y|+x+1)}{\sqrt n}\)[\Phi(\e\sqrt n)-\Phi(v(x))]
\le F_n(\sqrt n\e|y)-F_n(x|y)\\
&\qquad \le\(1+\frac{\bar K(|y|+x+1)}{\sqrt n}\)[\Phi(\e\sqrt
n)-\Phi(u(x))]
\endaligned \tag A4
$$
with the above defined functions $v(x)$ and $u(x)$ if $0\le
x\le\frac\e4\sqrt n$ and $|y|\le \frac\e4\sqrt n$. Moreover, the
inequality
$$
\aligned
&\(1-\frac{\bar K(|y|+x+1)}{\sqrt n}\)[1-\Phi(v(x))]
\le F_n(\sqrt n\e|y)-F_n(x|y)\\
&\qquad \le\(1+\frac{\bar K(|y|+x+1)}{\sqrt n}\)[1-\Phi(u(x))]
\endaligned \tag A$4'$
$$
holds with possibly different constant $\bar K>0$. To see this, it
is enough to observe that $1-\Phi(\e\sqrt n)$ is much smaller
$1-\Phi(v(x))$. Hence the increase we commit by writing $1-\Phi(v(x))$
instead of $\Phi(\e\sqrt n)-\Phi(v(x))$ can be compensated by
writing a larger constant~$\bar K$ at the left-hand side of (A4). It
is enough to observe that $1-\Phi(\e\sqrt n)\le \frac1{\sqrt
n}[1-\Phi((v(x))]$, since $v(x)\le \frac\e2\sqrt n$. The replacement
of $\Phi(\e\sqrt n))-\Phi(u(x))$ by $1-\Phi(u(x))$ at the right-hand
side of (A4) is clearly allowed.
 
\item{} To prove formula (14) with the help of relation (A$4'$) we
have to compare $1-\Phi(v(x))$ and $1-\Phi(u(x))$ with
$1-\Phi(x)$. We can write, by exploiting that the derivative of
$\log[1-\Phi(x)]$ is $\frac{-\varphi(x)}{1-\Phi(x)}$ which can be
well bounded that
$$
\align
0&\le\log \frac{1-\Phi((u(x))}{1-\Phi(x)}=(x-u(x))\frac{\varphi
(\bar u)}{1-\Phi(\bar u)}\\
&\le (x-u(x))(Ax+B)\le C\frac{x^3+x^2y+x|y|+x^2}{\sqrt n} \le\bar
C\frac{x^3+x^2|y|+|y|+1}{\sqrt n} \endalign
$$
with some $u(x)\le \bar u\le x$ and appropriate constants $A>0$,
$B>0$, $C>0$ and $\bar C>0$. A similar estimation holds for
$\log \frac{1-\Phi((v(x))}{1-\Phi(x))}$. These estimates
imply that
$$
\aligned
&[1-\Phi(x)]\exp\left\{\frac{-C(x^3+x^2|y|+|y|+1}{\sqrt n}\right\}
\le 1-\Phi(v(x)) \\
&\qquad \le 1-\Phi((u(x))\le
[1-\Phi(x)]\exp\left\{\frac{C(x^3+x^2|y|+|y|+1}{\sqrt n}\right\}
\endaligned
$$
with some appropriate constant $C>0$. The last estimate together with
relation (A$4'$) imply formula~(14).
 
\item{5b)} We can write by formula (13a) and estimates (12c) and (12b)
$$
f_n(\e\sqrt n+u|y)\le K\frac{f_n\(\frac{\e\sqrt n+u+|y|}{\sqrt
2}\)}{f_{2n}(y)} \le K\frac{f_n\(\frac{\e\sqrt n}{\sqrt 2}\)}
{f_{2n}(y)}e^{-t\sqrt n(u+|y|)} \tag A5
$$
with some appropriate constant $K>0$ for all $u\ge0$, where $t$ is
the solution of the $\frac {R'(s)}{R(s)}=2^{-1/2}\e$, with $R(s)=\int
e^{sx}F(\,dx)$. Let us also assume that $|y|\le \frac\e4$. In this
case the density functions in formula (A5) can be well bounded by
means of the result formulated under the name {\it Sharp form of
the local central limit theorem.} For the solution of the present
problem it is enough to have the fairly weak estimate
$f_n(\e\sqrt n+u|y)\le Ke^{-\e^2n/8}e^{-\sqrt nu}$ if $\e>0$ is
chosen sufficiently small with an appropriate constant $K>0$, and
the constant $t=t(\e)$ in formula (A5) is strictly positive. This
implies that
$$
0\le 1-F_n(\e\sqrt n|y)=\int_0^\infty f_n(\e\sqrt n+u|y)\,dy\le
Ke^{-\e^2n/8}\le [1-\Phi(x)]e^{-\e^2n/20}.
$$
This estimate together with formula (14) imply the first relation in
formula (10) if $0\le x\le\frac\e4\sqrt n$, $|y|\le \frac\e4\sqrt n$,
since it means that the quantity $1-F_n(\e\sqrt n|y)$ is negligibly
small in comparison with $F_n(\e\sqrt n|y)-F_n(x|y)$. The second
relation in (10) can be proved similarly, or it follows from the
first one if we apply it for the appropriate conditional
distributions of the partial sums of the independent and identically
distributed random variables $-X_1,-X_2,\dots$, instead of the
partial sum of the original sequence $X_1,X_2,\dots$, with
distribution $F$.
 
\beginsection Appendix. The proof of the sharp form of the local
central limit theorem.
 
Let us introduce the functions $\varphi(t)=Ee^{itX_1}$, the
characteristic function, and $R(s)=\varphi(-is)=Ee^{sX_1}$, the
moment generating function of the random variable $X_1$. Then the
characteristic function of $S_n=\frac1{\sqrt n}\summ_{k=1}^nX_k$
equals $\varphi\(\frac t{\sqrt n}\)^n$, and its moment generating
function equals $R\(\frac s{\sqrt n}\)^n$. Put $\psi(s)=\log R(s)$,
and let $\psi(z)$ denote its analytic continuation to the plane of
the complex numbers in a small neighbourhood of the origin. Such an
extension really exists. By the conditions of the result the
characteristic function $\varphi\(\frac t{\sqrt n}\)^n$ is
integrable for $n\ge n_0$. Hence the inverse Fourier transform can
be applied, and it expresses  (the existing) density function
$f_n(x)$ of $S_n$.  Moreover, the integral expressing the inverse
Fourier transform can be replaced to the line
$z=t-is\sqrt n$ on the plane of complex numbers with a (small) fixed
number $s$. In such a way we can express the density function $f_n(x)$
of $S_n$ by the formula
$$
f_n(x)=\frac1{2\pi}\int_{-\infty}^\infty e^{-itx}
\varphi\(\frac t{\sqrt n}\)^n\,dt
=\frac1{2\pi}\int_{-\infty}^\infty e^{-itx-s\sqrt nx}
\varphi\(\frac{t}{\sqrt n}-is\)^n\,dt \tag B1
$$
for all $|s|\le \e$ if $n\ge k$ with some sufficiently small $\e>0$.
(Let us remark that because of the existence of the density function
$\limm_{|t|\to\infty}\varphi(t)=0$ by Riemann's lemma. Moreover, the
relation$\limm_{|t|\to\infty}\varphi(t+is)=0$ also holds if $|s|\le\e$,
and the convergence is uniform in the variable $s$. This observation
helps us to justify the above replacement of the integral.)
 
We want to show that if the parameter $s$ in the integral at the
right-hand side of (B1) is appropriately chosen (by means of the
saddle point method), then this integral is essentially concentrated
in a small neighbourhood of the origin, and this enables us to
give a good estimate of the function on the value of $f_n(x)$.
 
To show this let us observe that $\left|\varphi\(\frac{t}
{\sqrt n}-is\)\right|\le R(s)$. Moreover, for all $\eta>0$ there
exists some $\delta=\delta(\eta)>0$ such that
$\left|\varphi\(\frac{t}{\sqrt n}-is\)\right|\le (1-\delta)R(s)$ if
$|t|\ge\eta\sqrt n$. To see the last relation observe that a sum of
$k$ independent $F$ distributed random variables $X_1+\cdots+X_k$,
has an integrable characteristic function $\varphi^k(t)$, hence it
also has a density function $\bar f_k(x)$. This implies that
$|\varphi^k(t+is)|<R^k(s)$ with a strict inequality if $|s|\le\e$
and $t\neq0$, and also the relation
$\limm_{|t|\to\infty}\varphi(t+is)=0$ holds, moreover it holds
uniformly in the parameter $s$ for $|s|\le\e$. This implies the above
formulated inequality. By applying this inequality together with the
integrability of the function $\varphi^k(s+it)$ with a fixed $s$ in
the variable $t$, (this statement is equivalent with relation (11))
we get for all $n\ge k$ that
$$
\aligned
&\left|\int_{|t|\le \eta\sqrt n}
e^{-itx-s\sqrt nx}\varphi^n\(\frac{t}{\sqrt n}-is\)\,dt\right|\\
&\qquad \le(1-\delta)^{n-k}e^{-s\sqrt nx} R^{n-k}(s)\int
\left|\varphi^k\(\frac{t}{\sqrt n}-is\)\right|\,dt \\
&\qquad\le \bar K\sqrt n (1-\delta)^{n-k}e^{-s\sqrt nx}R^{n-k}(s)
\le K(1-\delta)^ne^{-s\sqrt nx} R^n(s)
\endaligned \tag B2
$$
if $|s|\le\e$ with an appropriate $\delta=\delta(\eta)>0$ and
$K=K(\eta)>0$ for all $\eta>0$.
 
The integrand in the integral at the right-hand side of (B1) can be
rewritten as
$$
\exp\left\{-\sqrt nx \(s+i\frac{t}{\sqrt n}\)
+n\psi\(s+i\frac{t}{\sqrt n}\)\right\}. \tag B3
$$
Let us consider the function $s=h(x)$, defined by the equation
$x=\psi'(s)$, i.e. $h(\cdot)$ is the inverse function of the
function $\psi'(s)=\frac{R'(s)}{R(s)}$. Since $\psi(0)=0$,
$\psi'(0)=EX_1^2=1$, $h(x)$ is an analytic function in a small
neighbourhood of the origin, $h(0)=0$ and $h'(0)=1$. Let us choose
$s=h\(\frac x{\sqrt n}\)$, which function is defined for $|x|\le
\e\sqrt n$ with a sufficiently small $\e>0$. (The saddle point method
suggests such a choice of the number $s$. To explain why the saddle
point method suggests such a choice it is useful to introduce a new
variable $\bar s=s\sqrt n$ and to consider the expression in the
exponent of formula (B3) as an analytical function of the argument
$z=\bar s+it$. The saddle point method suggests to replace the
integral of the analytic function we want to estimate to a new line
which goes through a saddle point, i.e. through a point where the
derivative of the integrand equals zero in the `right direction'. If
we are looking a saddle point of the special form $z=\bar s$ of the
function in the exponent of (B3), then this leads to the equation
$\frac x{\sqrt n}=\psi'\(\frac{\bar s} {\sqrt n}\)=\psi'(s)$.) We
want to give a good estimate on the integral of the function in
formula (B3) if we are integrating it in the interval
$-\eta \sqrt n\le t\le\eta\sqrt n$ with a small number $\eta>0$ and
a fixed number $s=h\(\frac x{\sqrt n}\)$. To do this let us first
consider the Taylor expansion of the function in (B3) as a function
of the variable $t$ with a fixed number $s$. Since the derivative of
this function in the origin is zero in the point $t=0$, its second
derivative is $-\psi''(s)=-\psi''\(h\(\frac x{\sqrt n}\)\)$, (a
number close to $-1$), and its third derivative is of order
$O\(\frac1{\sqrt n}\)$ with an order uniform for $|s|\le \e$,
$|t|\le\eta \sqrt n$, we get that
$$
\align
&\exp\left\{-\sqrt nx \(s+i\frac{t}{\sqrt n}\)
+n\psi\(s+i\frac{t}{\sqrt n}\)\right\}\\
&\qquad =e^{-\sqrt nx s+n\psi(s)}e^{-\psi''(s)t^2/2}
\(1+O\(\frac{t^3}{\sqrt n}\)\)
\endalign
$$
and
$$
\align
&\int_{-\eta\sqrt n}^{\eta\sqrt n} e^{-itx-s\sqrt nx}
\varphi\(\frac{t}{\sqrt n}-is\)^n\,dt\\
&\qquad =e^{-\sqrt nx s+n\psi(s)}
\int_{-\eta\sqrt n}^{\eta\sqrt n}
e^{-\psi''(s)t^2/2}
\(1+O\(\frac{t^3}{\sqrt n}\)\)\,dt\\
&\qquad =e^{-\sqrt nx s+n\psi(s)}\sqrt{\frac{2\pi}{\psi''(s)}}
\(1+O\(\frac{1}{\sqrt n}\)\).  \tag B4
\endalign
$$
Relations (B1), (B2) and (B4) together with the relation
$R^n(s)=e^{n\psi(s)}$ imply that
$$
f_n(x)
=\frac{e^{-n(sx/\sqrt n-\psi(s))}}{\sqrt{2\pi\psi''(s)}}
\(1+O\(\frac{1}{\sqrt n}\)\) \tag B5
$$
with $s=h\(\frac x{\sqrt n}\)$ if $|x|\le \e\sqrt n$ with a
sufficiently small $\e>0$.
 
Both  $H_1\(\frac x{\sqrt n}\)=\frac{sx}{\sqrt n}-\psi(s))$ and
$H_2\(\frac x{\sqrt n}\)=\psi''(s)$ are analytic functions of the
variable $\frac x{\sqrt n}$ after the substitution $s=h\(\frac
x{\sqrt n}\)$ which do not depend on the parameter~$n$. Beside this,
we can write $s=\frac x{\sqrt n}+\frac x{\sqrt n}A\(\frac
x{\sqrt n}\)$, and $\psi(s)=\frac{s^2}2+s^3 B(s)$
with some analytic functions $A(\cdot)$ and $B(\cdot)$. Hence
$-n(sx/\sqrt n-\psi(s))=-\frac {x^2}2+\frac{x^3}{\sqrt n}\lambda
\(\frac x{\sqrt n}\)$ with some appropriate analytic function
$\lambda(\cdot)$ in a small neighborhood of the origin. Similarly,
$\psi''(s)=1+sC(s)$ with an analytic function $C(s)$ in a small
neighbourhood of the origin, hence we can write
$\psi''(s)=1+\frac x{\sqrt n}\mu\(\frac x{\sqrt n}\)$ with an
appropriate analytical function $\mu(x)$. The first relation of
formula (12a) follows from formula (B5) and the observation made
about the expressions in this formula made after it. The second
relation of formula (12a) is a simple consequence of the first one.
 
We could prove the asymptotic relation (12a) only for such
numbers $x$ for which the equation $\frac x{\sqrt n}=\psi'(s)$ has a
solution, and we could guarantee it only for $|x|\le\e\sqrt n$ with
some $\e>0$. In the general case we can give a sharp asymptotic
formula of the density function $f_n(x)$ only for such arguments~$x$.
To get a good upper bound for the density function $f_n(\bar x)$ in
the case of a general number $\bar x$ let us write this number in
the form $\bar x=x+z$ with some $|x|\le \e\sqrt n$, and let us
express $f_n(\bar x)$ by formula (B1) (with the replacement of $x$
by $\bar x$ in it) with the same number $s$, as before, i.e. let us
choose the parameter $s$ as the solution of the equation $\frac x{\sqrt
n} =\psi'(s)$. The estimate (B2) remains valid if we replace $x$ by
$\bar x$ everywhere in this formula. To get an appropriate upper
bound in formula (B4) in the new situation let us first give a good
upper bound on the expression in formula (B3). Let us recall that
$|e^z|=e^{\Re z}$.
 
We can get, by means of a Taylor expansion that
$$
\Re\(-\sqrt n\bar x \(s+i\frac{t}{\sqrt n}\)
+n\psi\(s+i\frac{t}{\sqrt n}\)\)=-\sqrt ns\bar
x+n\psi(s)-\psi''(s)\frac{t^2}2+O\(\frac{t^3}{\sqrt n}\)
$$
if $|t|\le\eta\sqrt n$ with some appropriately small $\eta>0$.
Hence we get the following analog of relation (B4):
$$
\align
&\left|\int_{-\eta\sqrt n}^{\eta\sqrt n} e^{-it\bar x-s\sqrt n\bar x}
\varphi\(\frac{t}{\sqrt n}-is\)^n\,dt\right|\\
&\qquad \le e^{-\sqrt n\bar x s+n\psi(s)}\sqrt{\frac{2\pi}{\psi''(s)}}
\(1+O\(\frac{1}{\sqrt n}\)\).  \tag B$4'$
\endalign
$$
Relations (B$4'$) together with the version of relations (B1) and
(B3) (for $\bar x$ instead of $x$ imply that
$$
f_n(\bar x)\le \bar K
e^{-\sqrt n\bar x s+n\psi(s)} \frac1{\sqrt{2\pi\psi''(s)}}
$$
with an appropriate constant $\bar K>0$. A comparison of this formula
with relation (B5) yields that
$$
f_n(\bar x)\le K e^{-\sqrt ns(\bar x -x)}
\frac{e^{-\sqrt n x s+n\psi(s)}}{\sqrt{2\pi\psi''(s)}}
\le Ke^{-\sqrt ns(\bar x-x)}f_n(x)=Ke^{-\sqrt nsz}f_n(x)
$$
with some appropriate constant $K>0$, as we claimed in formula (12b).
 
Finally relation (12c) is a simple consequence of relation (12b) with
the choice $x=0$ if we observe that $s=0$ in this case, and $f_n(0)$
is bounded by a constant not depending on $n$ by formula (12a).
Actually, a sharper estimate holds. With some extra-work it can be
shown that $f_n(x)$ can be approximated by the standard normal
density function $\varphi(x)$ with an error bounded by
$\frac{\const}{\sqrt n}$ in the supremum norm.
But we do not need such an estimate, hence its proof will be omitted.
 
\bye
 
