InformationTheory.Shannon.Portfolio.StationaryMarket
Log-optimal portfolios over stationary ergodic markets (Cover–Thomas) #
For a stationary ergodic market driven by a measure-preserving ergodic shift T : Ω → Ω,
with the price-relative vector at the first epoch given by an observation
X : Ω → (Fin m → ℝ), an investor reinvesting all wealth with a fixed rebalanced
portfolio b : Fin m → ℝ accumulates wealth whose log grows like
∑ i, log (b · X (T^[i] ω)). The time-averaged log-wealth growth converges almost surely
to the expected log return ∫ ω, log (b · X ω) ∂μ. This is the stationary-ergodic
counterpart of the i.i.d. operational theorem
InformationTheory.Shannon.Portfolio.seqLogWealth_div_tendsto_growthRate, obtained by
replacing the strong law of large numbers with the Birkhoff individual ergodic theorem.
Main definitions #
stationaryLogReturn— the per-epoch log returnlog (b · X ω) = log (∑ j, b j · X ω j).
Main statements #
seqLogWealth_div_tendsto_stationary— fixed portfolio: the Birkhoff time average of the log return converges almost surely to∫ ω, log (b · X ω) ∂μ.
Implementation notes #
The proof is a direct application of the Birkhoff individual ergodic theorem
InformationTheory.Shannon.birkhoff_ergodic_ae to the integrable observable
stationaryLogReturn X b, mirroring the template
InformationTheory.Shannon.birkhoffAverage_pmfLogCond_tendsto. The normalization matches
the in-project birkhoffAverageReal, whose time average uses n + 1 terms
(∑_{i=0}^{n}) over the denominator n + 1.
References #
- T. M. Cover and J. A. Thomas, Elements of Information Theory (2nd ed.), Wiley, 2006.
InformationTheory.Shannon.Portfolio.stationaryLogReturn
sourceThe per-epoch log return log (b · X ω) = log (∑ j, b j · X ω j): the log growth factor
of wealth when the price-relative vector is X ω and the portfolio is b.
Equations
- InformationTheory.Shannon.Portfolio.stationaryLogReturn X b ω = Real.log (∑ j : Fin m, b j * X ω j)
Instances For
Used by
InformationTheory.Shannon.Portfolio.seqLogWealth_div_tendsto_stationary
sourceStationary ergodic log-optimal portfolio theorem (Cover–Thomas): for a
measure-preserving ergodic shift T on a probability space, a fixed rebalanced portfolio
b, and an integrable per-epoch log return, the Birkhoff time average of the log-wealth
growth converges almost surely to the expected log return ∫ ω, log (b · X ω) ∂μ.
@audit:ok — sorryAx-free ([propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]). Direct application of
birkhoff_ergodic_ae; hT/hT_erg/hint are its ergodic-system and integrability
preconditions, ∫ ω, stationaryLogReturn X b ω is a genuine definitional binding (the
spatial mean), and the spelled-out range (n+1) / (n+1) average matches birkhoffAverageReal.
Non-circular, no load-bearing hypothesis.
Used by
InformationTheory.Shannon.Portfolio.stationaryLogReturn_integral_le_of_kuhnTucker
sourceStationary asymptotic optimality (Cover–Thomas): a log-optimal portfolio bs
satisfying the integral Kuhn–Tucker condition ∀ i, ∫ X_i / (bs · X) ∂μ ≤ 1 maximizes the
expected log return: every simplex portfolio b has ∫ log (b · X) ≤ ∫ log (bs · X).
Together with seqLogWealth_div_tendsto_stationary this gives the asymptotic dominance of
bs over any fixed b: the almost-sure limits of the time-averaged log-wealth satisfy the
same inequality.
@audit:ok — sorryAx-free ([propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]). hKT constrains only
bs (per-coordinate integral stationarity, b-free), so it is the honest hypothesis of the
Kuhn–Tucker sufficiency theorem, not the conclusion in disguise: the dominance is proved
genuinely via the tangent bound log t ≤ t − 1 integrated against the wealth ratio, then
∫ R = ∑ i, b i · ∫ X_i/(bs·X) ≤ 1. Simplex/positivity/integrability hypotheses are
regularity preconditions; non-circular, no load-bearing hypothesis.