Functional Limit Theorems for Dependent Variables

The first result is a generalization of the classical results for independent random variables. The second result gives general conditions for convergence to processes which can be obtained from Brownian motion by a random change of time. This result is used to give a unified development of most of the martingale central limit theorems in the literature. An important aspect of our methods is that after the initial result is shown, we can avoid any further consideration of tightness.

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