Math Help - Is this random variable almost surely convergence?

1. Is this random variable almost surely convergence?

Let $X_n$ be a sequence of random variable with probability density of $f_n(x) = \frac {n}{ \pi (1+n^2x^2) } \ \ \ \ \forall n \geq 1$

Does $X_n$ converges almost surely?

Proof so far:

Claim: $X_n$ converges to 0 almost surely.

Let $\epsilon > 0$ and fixed $N \in \mathbb {N}$, I want to show that $\lim _{n \rightarrow \infty } P(|X_n|< \epsilon \ \forall n \geq N) = 1$,

that meansing proving that $P(X_n< \epsilon \ \forall n \geq N) = 1$ and $P(X_n > - \epsilon \ \forall n \geq N ) = 1$

First the first one, we have:

$P(X_n < \epsilon \ \forall n \geq N ) = P(X_N \leq \epsilon )$ since $X_n$ is decreasing monotonically. And that is the CDF of $X_n$, which is:

$\frac {1}{\pi} [ \arctan (N \epsilon ) + \frac {\pi}{2} ] \rightarrow 1$ as $n \rightarrow \infty$

Similar, the one will work as well. So is this it? Thanks.

2. Re: Is this random variable almost surely convergence?

Hello,

It makes no sense to say that $X_n$ decreases monotically. There is no relationship between the behaviour of the sequence of pdf's and the behaviour of the sequence of rv's.

But I have to think further for the problem itself

3. Re: Is this random variable almost surely convergence?

Our professor said that you would have assume they are independent and use borel-contelli theorem for.this

4. Re: Is this random variable almost surely convergence?

Then he gave you all the elements to solve this...

Consider the events $A_n=\{|X_n|>1/n\}$, prove that $\sum_n P(A_n)=\infty$. By Borel-Cantelli's lemma, and because the events are independent, it lets us say that $P(\limsup_n A_n)=0 \Leftrightarrow P(\liminf_n \{|X_n|<1/n\})=1$.
Then write the liminf with quantifiers and it should give you the almost sure convergence