Maximal inequalities and convergence results on multidimensionally indexed demimartingales

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Abstract: We obtain some maximal probability and moment inequalities for multidimensionally indexed demimartingales. Although the class of single-indexed demimartingales has been studied extensively, no significant amount of work has been done for the corresponding multiindexed class of random variables. This work aims to fill in this gap in the literature by extending well-known inequalities and asymptotic results to this more general class of random variables.


A collection of multidimensionally indexed random variables \(\{S_\mathbf{n}:\mathbf{n}\in\mathbb{N}^k\}\) is said to be a multi-indexed demimartingale if \[ E\left[(S_\mathbf{j}-S_\mathbf{i})f(S_\mathbf{k},\mathbf{k}\leq\mathbf{i})\right]\geq0 \] for all \(\mathbf{i},\mathbf{j}\in\mathbb{N}^k\) with \(\mathbf{i}\leq\mathbf{j}\) and all componentwise non-decreasing functions \(f\), where we write \((i_1,\ldots,i_k)\leq(j_1,\ldots,j_k)\) if \(i_l\leq j_l\) for all \(l=1,\ldots,k\). This generalises the class of multi-indexed martingales, and partial sums of associated random variables with zero mean. In the present paper the authors establish a selection of inequalities for multi-indexed demimartingales, including Doob-type inequalities and maximal results, a Chow-type inequality, maximal inequalities in terms of Orlicz functions, an upcrossing inequality, and a Whittle-type inequality.



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