Lévy's downward theorem on an eventually constant filtration #
This file is the Exchangeability-roadmap worked example
(TauCetiRoadmap/Exchangeability/README.md, "Worked examples"): the Lévy downward theorem
specializes correctly to an eventually constant decreasing filtration. It is a consistency
test of the flagship Layer-4 result MeasureTheory.tendsto_ae_condExp_iInf, not a de Finetti
example.
Fix an antitone filtration 𝔽 : ℕ → MeasurableSpace Ω that is constant from some index N
on, 𝔽 n = 𝔽 N for n ≥ N. Two independent computations must agree:
- Elementary. The sequence
n ↦ μ[f | 𝔽 n]is literally constant pastN(condExp_eq_of_eventually_const), so it converges — everywhere, no integrability or finiteness needed — to the valueμ[f | 𝔽 N]it already sits at (tendsto_condExp_of_eventually_const). - General. The intersection
⨅ n, 𝔽 ncollapses to𝔽 N(iInf_measurableSpace_eq_of_antitone_of_eventually_const), so the Lévy downward limitμ[f | ⨅ n, 𝔽 n]isμ[f | 𝔽 N](condExp_iInf_eq_of_eventually_const).
The capstone tendsto_ae_condExp_of_eventually_const runs the general theorem and
rewrites its limit through the intersection collapse, recovering exactly the elementary limit:
the two routes agree, which is what "specializes correctly" means.
No material from cameronfreer/exchangeability is used; this is a Tau-Ceti-local check of the
flagship theorem stated in TauCeti.Probability.Martingale.Convergence.
The intersection of an antitone filtration that is constant from index N on collapses to
the stabilized σ-algebra 𝔽 N. This is the order fact behind the Lévy-downward specialization.
Past the stabilization index the conditional expectations are literally equal: for N ≤ n
the σ-algebras 𝔽 n and 𝔽 N coincide, so μ[f | 𝔽 n] and μ[f | 𝔽 N] are the same term.
Elementary convergence. Along a filtration constant from index N on, the conditional
expectations μ[f | 𝔽 n] reach μ[f | 𝔽 N] exactly and stay there, so they converge to it at
every point. No integrability of f or finiteness of μ is needed: the sequence is eventually
constant.
The Lévy downward limit collapses. For an antitone filtration constant from index N
on, the reverse-martingale limit μ[f | ⨅ n, 𝔽 n] produced by tendsto_ae_condExp_iInf is the
conditional expectation onto the stabilized σ-algebra 𝔽 N.
Lévy's downward theorem specializes correctly to an eventually constant filtration.
Run the flagship MeasureTheory.tendsto_ae_condExp_iInf on an antitone filtration that is
constant from index N on, then collapse its limit through
condExp_iInf_eq_of_eventually_const. The a.e. limit it delivers is μ[f | 𝔽 N] — exactly the
value the sequence already reaches by the elementary
tendsto_condExp_of_eventually_const. The general and elementary computations agree.