Laws of stepsUntil and rewardByCount #
Law of Y conditioned on the event s.
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Law of Y conditioned on the event that X is in s.
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Law of Y conditioned on the event that X equals x.
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The conditional distribution of the reward received at the m-th pull of action a
given the time at which number of pulls is m is the constant kernel with value Ξ½ a.
The reward received at the m-th pull of action a has law Ξ½ a.
Independence of the rewards by count #
We prove that the family (rewardByCount A R a (m + 1))_{(a, m)} is independent, with
rewardByCount A R a (m + 1) distributed according to Ξ½ a.
The proof goes through the time-truncated arrays rewardByCountUntil A R t, in which the entries
corresponding to pulls that happen at time t or later are replaced by the auxiliary array. Under
the product measure π, the law of rewardByCountUntil A R t does not depend on t: going from
t to t + 1 replaces the entry (A t, pullCount A (A t) t), which was an auxiliary reward with
law Ξ½ (A t) independent of everything else, by the reward R t, which conditionally on the
history and on A t also has law Ξ½ (A t). For t = 0 the array is a sub-array of the auxiliary
array, whose law is the product measure. Finally rewardByCountUntil A R t converges to
rewardByCount entrywise as t β β, which gives the law of the latter.
The law of the array rewardByCountUntil A R 0, which is a sub-array of the auxiliary array,
is the product measure β¨ (a, m), Ξ½ a.
The array rewardByCountUntil A R t with the entry (b, k) erased is independent of the
entry (k + 1, b) of the auxiliary array.
Conditionally on the event that the action at time n is b and that b was pulled k
times before, the reward at time n is independent of the history before time n and of the
action at time n.
Conditionally on the event that the action at time t is b and that b was pulled k
times before, the reward at time t has law Ξ½ b.
Conditionally on the event that the action at time t is b and that b was pulled k
times before, the array rewardByCountUntil A R t with the entry (b, k) erased is independent of
the reward at time t.
Conditionally on the event that the action at time t is b and that b was pulled k
times before, the arrays rewardByCountUntil A R (t + 1) and rewardByCountUntil A R t have the
same law: they differ only in the entry (b, k), which is R t in the first and an auxiliary
reward in the second, and both are independent of the rest of the array with law Ξ½ b.
The law of rewardByCountUntil A R t under π does not depend on t.
The law of rewardByCountUntil A R t under π is β¨ (a, m), Ξ½ a, for all t.
The array of rewards by count (a, m) β¦ rewardByCount A R a (m + 1) has law
β¨ (a, m), Ξ½ a: its entries are independent, and the entry (a, m) has law Ξ½ a.
The reward received at the (m + 1)-th pull of action a has law Ξ½ a.
The rewards by count rewardByCount A R a (m + 1) are independent over all actions a and
all counts m.
The rewards by count rewardByCount A R a m for m β 0 are independent over all actions a
and all counts m.
For each action a, the rewards by count (rewardByCount A R a (m + 1))_m are independent
(and by hasLaw_rewardByCount_add_one identically distributed with law Ξ½ a).
Two distinct rewards by count are independent.