On Klass' series criterion for the minimal growth rate of partial maxima (Q1821424)

Consider a sequence \(\{X_ i\}\) of i.i.d. random variables and let \(M_ n=\max (X_ 1,...,X_ n)\) be the maximum of the first n of the \(X_ i\). The author gives a martingale based proof of the theorem due to \textit{M. J. Klass} [Ann. Probab. 13, 1369-1370 (1985; Zbl 0576.60023)] that P \(\{M_ n\leq b_ n\) \(i.o.\}=1\) iff \(\sum^{\infty}_{1}P(X_ 1>b_ n)\exp (-n P(X_ 1>b_ n))=+\infty\).