Sectorial Convergence of U-Statistics

Anda Gadidov, Kennesaw State University

Abstract

In this note we show that almost sure convergence to zero of symmetrized U-statistics indexed by a linear sector in ℤ^d₊ is equivalent to convergence along the diagonal of ℤ^d₊, as it is considered in Latała and Zinn [Ann. Probab. 28 (2000) 1908–1924]. Comparisons with similar results for sums of multi-indexed i.i.d. random variables are also made.