Strong Laws for Lp-Norms of Empirical and Related Processes

We obtain lim sup and lim inf results for the Lp-norms (1 ≤ p < ∞) of empirical and quantile processes. We prove these results combining theorems for sums of Banach space valued random variables with invariance principles.

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