On the Baum-Katz theorem for sequences of pairwise independent random variables with regularly varying normalizing constants (Q2223439)

Henceforth, \(\tilde L\) denotes the de Bruijn conjugate of \(L\). The main result of the paper is Theorem 1. Let \(1 \le p < 2\), let \(\{ X,{X_n},n \ge 1\} \) be a sequence of pairwise independent identically distributed random variables, and let \(L( \cdot )\) be a slowly varying function defined on \([0,\infty )\). When \(p = 1\), we assume that \(L(x) \ge 1\) and increases on \([0,\infty )\). Then the following statements are equivalent: (i) The random variable \(X\) satisfies \(EX = 0\), \(E{\left| X \right|^p}{L^p}\left| X \right| < \infty \). (ii) For all \(\alpha \ge {p^{ - 1}}\), we have \(\sum\limits_{n = 1}^\infty {{n^{\alpha p - 2}}P\left( {\mathop {\max }\limits_{1 \le j \le n} \left| {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^j {{X_i}} } \right| > \varepsilon {n^\alpha }\tilde L({n^\alpha }))} \right)} < \infty \) for all \(\varepsilon > 0\). (iii) The Marcinkiewicz-Zygmund-type strong law of large numbers holds.