Proof of Mean-Square Riemann Integrals of a Jointly Gaussian Family are Jointly Gaussian
lemmalem:mean-square-riemann-integral-gaussian-2026aFix versions of the mean-square Riemann integrals for , with . By Jointly Gaussian Families of Random Variables and Gaussian Processes it suffices to show: for every choice of finitely many distinct indices of the enlarged family, the tuple of corresponding members is a Gaussian random vector. Since the index set is the disjoint union of and two copies of , such a tuple has the form with distinct , distinct , and distinct , where any of may be but not all three. (The same random variable may occur under different indices; this is permitted, as Gaussian random vectors may have repeated coordinates.)
For each natural number and each define a random variable as follows: if , set ; otherwise let be the mean-square Riemann sum of over the partition of into equal intervals with left endpoints as tags. Since is a mean-square Riemann integral over and the mesh tends to , Mean-Square Riemann Integral of a Family of Random Variables gives as ; when this holds trivially because .
Fix . The random variables appearing in the tuple are built from finitely many members of the combined family: the , the , and the values at the finitely many tags of the partitions. Choose finitely many distinct indices of the combined family whose members include all of these; by the joint Gaussianity hypothesis and Jointly Gaussian Families of Random Variables and Gaussian Processes, the corresponding tuple is a Gaussian random vector . Every coordinate of the tuple above is a finite linear combination of coordinates of (a single coordinate for the and ; the combination for with ; the empty combination, that is , for with ). Hence the tuple is the image of under a linear map and is a Gaussian random vector by Affine Transformations of Gaussian Random Vectors are Gaussian.
Letting , the coordinates of these Gaussian random vectors converge in mean square to the coordinates of : the first coordinates are constant sequences, and for each . The limit coordinates are square-integrable, as required by Mean-Square Limits of Gaussian Random Vectors are Gaussian: the and are Gaussian, hence square-integrable by Square-Integrability, Moments, and Covariance Matrix of a Gaussian Random Vector, and the are square-integrable by Mean-Square Riemann Integral of a Family of Random Variables. By Mean-Square Limits of Gaussian Random Vectors are Gaussian, the limit tuple is a Gaussian random vector. Since the choice of finitely many distinct indices was arbitrary, the enlarged family is jointly Gaussian.
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