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Limit Laws of the Iterated Logarithm Under Sub-linear Expectations

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Let $\{Y_n; n\ge 1\}$ be a sequence of independent and identically distributed random variables with mean zero in Peng's framework of the sub-linear expectation space $(Ω,\mathscr{H},\widehat{\mathbb E})$, and $S_n=\sum_{i=1}^nY_i$. In this paper, we establish a limit law of \begin{align*}\lim_{n\to \infty}\max_{k\le n}\frac{S_k}{\sqrt{2k \log\log n}}. \end{align*} Different from the result obtained by Chen (2015) in which the limit is a constant, it is shown that under the upper capacity the limit may be prescribed as a given function of $Y_1,Y_2,\ldots$, taking values in the standard deviation interval. As a result, it is also shown that the set of limit points in the compact law of the iterated logarithm can be a symmetric random interval. This paper (Chinese version) has been submitted to Special Issue of Science in China-Mathematics in Celebration of Professor Peng Shige's 80th Birthday. In Theorem 2.2 of the original paper, an additional condition (2.6) is needed.

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Li-Xin Zhang, Yongsheng Song. 2026-09-03. Limit Laws of the Iterated Logarithm Under Sub-linear Expectations. https://doi.org/10.1360/ssm-2026-0178

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