A note on the convergence of lift zonoids of measures

Abstrakt

The lift zonoid is a convenient representation of an integrable measure by a convex set in a higher-dimensional space. It is known that, under appropriate conditions, a uniformly integrable sequence of measures converges weakly if and only if the corresponding sequence of lift zonoids converges in the Hausdorff metric.

We provide a new proof of this essential result. Our proof technique allows us to eliminate the unnecessary conditions previously considered in the literature.

As a by-product, we obtain a characterization of uniform integrability, and a simple sufficient condition for tightness, of a sequence of integrable measures in terms lift zonoids.

Klíčová slova

• lift zonoid
• uniform integrability
• weak convergence
• zonoid
• zonoid depth