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Variants of the Second BCL

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We shall show here that the second Borel–Cantelli lemma holds for a sequence of events which are pairwise independent. Actually, weaker conditions will suffice.

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Chandra, T.K. (2012). Variants of the Second BCL. In: The Borel-Cantelli Lemma. SpringerBriefs in Statistics, vol 2. Springer, India. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-0677-4_3

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