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Theorem 9.9 Let \( {M}_{t} \) be a continuous square integrable martingale. There exists a continuous adapted increasing process \( \langle M{\rangle }_{t} \) with \( \langle M{\rangle }_{0} = 0 \) and with increasing paths such that \( {M}_{t}^{2} - \langle M{\rangle }_{t} \) is a martingale.
Proof By Jensen's inequality for conditional expectations,\n\n\[ \mathbb{E}\left\lbrack {{M}_{t}^{2} \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{s}}\right\rbrack \geq {\left( \mathbb{E}\left\lbrack {M}_{t} \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{s}\right\rbrack \right) }^{2} = {M}_{s}^{2} \]\n\nif \( s < t \), and so \( {M}_{t}^{2} \) is a submartingale. Since \...
Yes
Lemma 10.1 The predictable \( \sigma \) -field \( \mathcal{P} \) is generated by the collection \( \mathcal{C} \) of processes of the form \( {X}_{t}\left( \omega \right) = \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{i = 1}}^{n}{K}_{i}\left( \omega \right) {1}_{\left( {a}_{i},{b}_{i}\right\rbrack }\left( t\right) \), where for each \( i,{...
Proof If \( X \in \mathcal{C} \), then \( X \) is bounded, adapted, and left continuous, hence \( X \) is a predictable process. Thus \( \mathcal{C} \subset \mathcal{P} \n\nOn the other hand, if \( Y \) is a bounded, adapted, left-continuous process, we can approximate \( Y \) by the processes\n\n\[ \n{Y}_{t}^{n}\left(...
Yes
Proposition 10.3 With \( H \) as in (10.3) and \( N \) defined by (10.4), \( {N}_{t} \) is a continuous martingale,\n\n\[ \mathbb{E}{N}_{\infty }^{2} = \mathbb{E}{\int }_{0}^{\infty }{H}_{s}^{2}d\langle M{\rangle }_{s}, \]\n\nand\n\n\[ \langle N{\rangle }_{t} = {\int }_{0}^{t}{H}_{s}^{2}d\langle M{\rangle }_{s} \]
Proof By linearity, \( {N}_{t} \) is a continuous martingale. We have\n\n\[ \mathbb{E}{N}_{\infty }^{2} = \mathbb{E}\left\lbrack {\mathop{\sum }\limits_{j}{H}_{j}^{2}{\left( {M}_{{b}_{j}} - {M}_{{a}_{j}}\right) }^{2}}\right\rbrack \]\n\n\[ + 2\mathbb{E}\left\lbrack {\mathop{\sum }\limits_{{i < j}}{H}_{i}{H}_{j}\left( {...
Yes
Theorem 11.2 Suppose \( {X}_{t}^{1},\ldots ,{X}_{t}^{d} \) are continuous semimartingales, \( {X}_{t} = \left( {{X}_{t}^{1},\ldots ,{X}_{t}^{d}}\right) \) , and \( f \) is a \( {C}^{2} \) function on \( {\mathbb{R}}^{d} \) . Then with probability one,
\[ f\left( {X}_{t}\right) = f\left( {X}_{0}\right) + {\int }_{0}^{t}\mathop{\sum }\limits_{{i = 1}}^{d}\frac{\partial f}{\partial {x}_{i}}\left( {X}_{s}\right) d{X}_{s}^{i} \] \[ + \frac{1}{2}{\int }_{0}^{t}\mathop{\sum }\limits_{{i, j = 1}}^{d}\frac{{\partial }^{2}f}{\partial {x}_{i}\partial {x}_{j}}\left( {X}_{s}\rig...
Yes
Theorem 12.2 Suppose \( {M}_{t} \) is a continuous local martingale, \( {M}_{0} = 0,\langle M{\rangle }_{t} \) is strictly increasing, and \( \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{t \rightarrow \infty }}\langle M{\rangle }_{t} = \infty \), a.s. Let\n\n\[ \tau \left( t\right) = \inf \left\{ {u : \langle M{\rangle }_{u} \geq t}\right\...
Proof Let us first suppose that \( {W}_{t}^{2} \) is integrable. We have by Proposition 9.3 that\n\n\[ \mathbb{E}\left\lbrack {{W}_{t} \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{s}^{\prime }}\right\rbrack = \mathbb{E}\left\lbrack {{M}_{\tau \left( t\right) } \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{\tau \left( s\right) }}\right\rbrack = {M}_{\tau \left( s\right)...
No
Corollary 12.5 If \( {M}_{t} \) is a square integrable martingale with respect to the minimal augmented filtration of a one-dimensional Brownian motion \( W \), then \( {M}_{t} \) has a version with continuous paths.
Proof By Corollary 3.13, \( M \) has a version with right continuous paths. By Corollary 12.4, \( M \) can be written as a stochastic integral with respect to \( W \) . But such stochastic integrals have continuous paths by Theorem 10.4.
Yes
Theorem 12.6 Let \( {M}_{t} \) be a continuous local martingale with \( {M}_{0} = 0 \), a.s., and suppose \( 2 \leq p < \infty \) . There exists a constant \( {c}_{1} \) depending on \( p \) such that for any finite stopping time \( T \) , \[ \mathbb{E}{\left( {M}_{T}^{ * }\right) }^{p} \leq {c}_{1}\mathbb{E}\langle M{...
Proof There is nothing to prove if the left-hand side is zero, so we may assume it is positive. First suppose \( {M}_{T}^{ * } \) is bounded by a positive constant \( K \) . Note for \( p \geq 2 \) the function \( x \rightarrow {\left| x\right| }^{p} \) is \( {C}^{2} \) . By Doob’s inequalities and then Itô’s formula (...
Yes
Theorem 12.7 Let \( {M}_{t} \) be a continuous local martingale with \( {M}_{0} = 0 \), a.s., and suppose \( 2 \leq p < \infty \) . There exists a constant \( {c}_{2} \) depending on \( p \) such that for any finite stopping time \( T \) ,\n\n\[ \mathbb{E}\langle M{\rangle }_{T}^{p/2} \leq {c}_{2}\mathbb{E}{\left( {M}_...
Proof As in the previous theorem, we may assume the left-hand side is positive. Set \( r = p/2 \) . Let us first suppose \( \langle M{\rangle }_{T} \) and \( {M}_{T}^{ * } \) are bounded by a positive constant \( K \) . Let \( {N}_{t} = {M}_{t \land T} \), so that \( \langle N{\rangle }_{\infty } = \langle M{\rangle }_...
Yes
Theorem 12.8 Suppose \( f \in {C}^{3} \) and \( X \) is a continuous semimartingale. Then\n\n\[ f\left( {X}_{t}\right) = f\left( {X}_{0}\right) + {\int }_{0}^{t}{f}^{\prime }\left( {X}_{s}\right) \circ d{X}_{s}. \]\n
Proof By Itô’s formula applied to the function \( f \) and the definition of the Stratonovich integral, it suffices to show that\n\n\[ {\left\langle {f}^{\prime }\left( X\right), X\right\rangle }_{t} = {\int }_{0}^{t}{f}^{\prime \prime }\left( {X}_{s}\right) d\langle X{\rangle }_{s}. \]\n\n(12.13)\n\nApplying Itô’s for...
Yes
Proposition 12.9 Suppose \( H \) and \( X \) are continuous semimartingales and \( {t}_{0} > 0 \) . Then \( {\int }_{0}^{t}{H}_{s} \circ d{X}_{s} \) is the limit in probability as \( n \rightarrow \infty \) of
Proof We write the sum as\n\n\[ \sum {H}_{k{t}_{0}/{2}^{n}}\left( {{X}_{\left( {k + 1}\right) {t}_{0}/{2}^{n}} - {X}_{k{t}_{0}/{2}^{n}}}\right) \]\n\n\[ + \frac{1}{2}\sum \left( {{H}_{\left( {k + 1}\right) {t}_{0}/{2}^{n}} - {H}_{k{t}_{0}/{2}^{n}}}\right) \left( {{X}_{\left( {k + 1}\right) {t}_{0}/{2}^{n}} - {X}_{k{t}_...
No
Lemma 13.1 Suppose \( Y \) is a continuous local martingale with \( {Y}_{0} = 0 \) and \( {Z}_{t} = {e}^{{Y}_{t}-\langle Y{\rangle }_{t}/2} \) . If \( \langle Y{\rangle }_{t} \) is a bounded random variable for each \( t \), then \( \mathbb{E}{\left| {Z}_{t}\right| }^{p} < \infty \) for each \( p > 1 \) and each \( t \...
Proof Let us first suppose \( Y \) is bounded in absolute value by \( N \) . Since \( {Z}_{t} \geq 0 \), we have by the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality\n\n\[ \n\mathbb{E}{Z}_{t}^{p} = \mathbb{E}{e}^{p{Y}_{t} - p\langle Y{\rangle }_{t}/2} \n\]\n\n(13.2)\n\n\[ \n= \mathbb{E}\left\lbrack {{e}^{p{Y}_{t} - {p}^{2}\langle Y{\rangl...
Yes
Lemma 13.2 Suppose \( {A}_{t} \) is a continuous increasing process adapted to a filtration \( \left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}\right\} \) satisfying the usual conditions. Let \( X \) be a bounded random variable, \( H \) a bounded adapted process, \( s < t \), and \( B \in {\mathcal{F}}_{s} \). Then\n\n\[ \mathbb{E}\left\lbr...
Proof By linearity, it suffices to suppose \( X \) and \( H \) are non-negative. Let \( {A}_{r}^{\prime } = {A}_{r + s} \), \( {H}_{r}^{\prime } = {H}_{r + s} \), and \( {\mathcal{F}}_{r}^{\prime } = {\mathcal{F}}_{r + s} \). Let \( {C}_{r} = {\int }_{0}^{r}{H}_{r}^{\prime }{1}_{B}d{A}_{s}^{\prime } \), and so we must ...
Yes
Theorem 14.2 The two-dimensional processes \( \left( {\left| W\right| ,{L}^{0}}\right) \) and \( \left( {M - W, M}\right) \) have the same law.
Proof Let \( {V}_{t} = - {N}_{t} \) in the Tanaka formula, so that\n\n\[\n\left| {W}_{t}\right| = - {V}_{t} + {L}_{t}^{0}\n\]\n\n(14.4)\n\nLet \( {S}_{t} = \mathop{\sup }\limits_{{s \leq t}}{V}_{s} \) . We will show \( {S}_{t} = {L}_{t}^{0} \) . This will prove the result, since \( V \) is a Brownian motion, and hence ...
Yes
Theorem 15.1 Suppose \( F : \lbrack 0,\infty ) \times \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R} \) is a bounded function and there exists a positive real \( k \) such that\n\n\[ \left| {F\left( {t, x}\right) - F\left( {t, y}\right) }\right| \leq k\left| {x - y}\right| \]\n\nfor all \( t \geq 0 \) and all \( x, y \in \mathbb{R}...
Proof Note each \( {y}^{i}\left( t\right) \) is bounded in absolute value by \( \left| {y}_{0}\right| + t\sup \left| F\right| \) . Let \( {g}_{i}\left( t\right) = \) \( \mathop{\sup }\limits_{{s \leq t}}\left| {{y}^{i + 1}\left( s\right) - {y}^{i}\left( s\right) }\right| \) . If \( s \leq t \), then\n\n\[ \left| {{y}^{...
Yes
We have\n\n\[ g\left( {W}_{1}\right) = \mathbb{E}g\left( {W}_{1}\right) + {\int }_{0}^{1}a\left( {s,{W}_{s}}\right) d{W}_{s},\;\text{ a.s. } \]\n\n(15.7)\n\nand\n\n\[ \mathbb{E}\left\lbrack {g\left( {W}_{1}\right) \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{s}}\right\rbrack = b\left( {s,{W}_{s}}\right) ,\;\text{ a.s. } \]\n\n(15.8)
Proof We will first prove (15.7), and we will first look at the case when \( g\left( x\right) = {e}^{iux} \) .\n\nBy Itô’s formula with the function \( f\left( x\right) = {e}^{x} \) applied to the semimartingale \( {X}_{t} = {iu}{W}_{t} + \) \( {u}^{2}t/2 \)\n\n\[ {e}^{{iu}{W}_{t} + {u}^{2}t/2} = 1 + {\int }_{0}^{t}{e}...
Yes
Proposition 15.3 Let \( g \) be defined by (15.12) and define a and b by (15.5) and (15.6).\n\n(1) For each \( L > 0 \) and \( {s}_{0} < 1 \), a is continuously differentiable on \( \left\lbrack {0,{s}_{0}}\right\rbrack \times \left\lbrack {-L, L}\right\rbrack \) . Also, for each \( L > 0 \) and \( {s}_{0} < 1 \), a is...
Proof To start, we observe that for every \( r > 0 \) ,\n\n\[ \mathbb{E}{e}^{r\left| {W}_{1}\right| } \leq \mathbb{E}{e}^{r{W}_{1}} + \mathbb{E}{e}^{-r{W}_{1}} < \infty . \]\n\nSince \( {\left| z\right| }^{m} \leq m!{e}^{\left| z\right| } \) if \( m \) is a non-negative integer, then by the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality an...
Yes
Corollary 15.5 Let \( W \) be a Brownian motion and let \( \left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}\right\} \) be the minimal augmented filtration for \( W \) . Let \( Y \) be a random variable with \( \mathbb{E}Y = 0 \) and \( \operatorname{Var}Y < \infty \) . There exists a stopping time \( V \) with respect to \( \left\{ {\mathcal...
Proof We sketch the proof and ask you to give the details in Exercise 15.3. Define\n\n\[ \bar{\Phi }\left( {q, r}\right) = \frac{1}{{\left( a\left( r, B\left( r,{W}_{q}\left( \omega \right) \right) \right) \right) }^{2}} \]\n\nand solve the equation\n\n\[ \frac{d{\bar{\tau }}_{t}}{dt} = \Phi \left( {t,{\bar{\tau }}_{t}...
No
Theorem 15.6\n\n\\[ \n\\mathop{\\sup }\\limits_{{i \\leq n}}\\left| {{W}_{{U}_{i}} - {W}_{i}}\\right| /\\sqrt{n}\n\\]\n\ntends to 0 in probability as \\( n \\rightarrow \\infty \\) .
Proof We will show that for each \\( \\varepsilon > 0 \\)\n\n\\[ \n\\mathop{\\limsup }\\limits_{{n \\rightarrow \\infty }}\\mathbb{P}\\left( {\\mathop{\\sup }\\limits_{{k \\leq n}}\\left| {{W}_{{U}_{k}} - {W}_{k}}\\right| > \\varepsilon \\sqrt{n}}\\right) \\leq \\varepsilon .\n\\]\n\n(15.18)\n\nSince the paths of Brown...
Yes
Proposition 16.1 Let \( T \) be a stopping time. There exist predictable stopping times \( {S}_{1},{S}_{2},\ldots \) and a totally inaccessible stopping time \( U \) such that \( \left\lbrack {T, T}\right\rbrack = \left\lbrack {U, U}\right\rbrack \cup \left( {{ \cup }_{i = 1}^{\infty }\left\lbrack {{S}_{i},{S}_{i}}\rig...
Proof Let\n\n\[ \n{a}_{1} = \sup \{ \mathbb{P}\left( {S = T < \infty }\right) : S\text{is a predictable stopping time}\} \n\] \n\nand choose \( {S}_{1} \) to be a predictable stopping time such that \( \mathbb{P}\left( {{S}_{1} = T < \infty }\right) \geq \frac{1}{2}{a}_{1} \) . Given \( {S}_{1},\ldots ,{S}_{n} \), let ...
Yes
Proposition 16.2 (1) The optional \( \sigma \) -field \( \mathcal{O} \) is generated by the collection of sets\n\n\[ \n\{ \lbrack S, T) : S, T\text{stopping times}\} \text{.} \n\]
Proof (1) Since \( {1}_{\lbrack S, T)} \) is a bounded right-continuous process that is adapted to \( \left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}\right\} \), sets of the form \( \lbrack S, T) \) are optional. Now suppose \( X \) is a bounded adapted process with right-continuous paths. Let \( \varepsilon > 0 \), let \( {U}_{0} = 0 \), a...
No
Proposition 16.3 (1) If \( A \) is an open set, then \( {T}_{A} \) and \( {U}_{A} \) are stopping times.
Proof (1) Since the paths of \( {X}_{t} \) are right continuous and \( A \) is open, for each \( t \) ,\n\n\[ \left( {{T}_{A} < t}\right) = { \cup }_{q \in {\mathbb{Q}}_{ + }, q < t}\left( {{X}_{t} \in A}\right) \in {\mathcal{F}}_{t}, \]\n\nwhere \( {\mathbb{Q}}_{ + } \) denotes the non-negative rationals. Thus \( {T}_...
Yes
Theorem 16.4 If \( A \) is a Borel subset of \( \mathcal{S} \), then \( {R}_{t}\left( A\right) \in {\mathcal{F}}_{t} \) and there exists an increasing sequence of compact sets \( {K}_{n} \) contained in \( A \) such that \( \mathbb{P}\left( {{R}_{t}\left( {K}_{n}\right) }\right) \uparrow \mathbb{P}\left( {{R}_{t}\left(...
Since \( \left( {{U}_{A} \leq t}\right) = {R}_{t}\left( A\right) \), we have the following as an immediate corollary.
No
Theorem 16.6 Suppose \( \left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}\right\} \) is a filtration satisfying the usual conditions and \( X \) is a right continuous process whose jump times are totally inaccessible. If \( B \) is a Borel subset of \( \mathcal{S} \) , then \( {T}_{B} \) is a stopping time.
Proof If we let \( {Y}_{t}^{\delta } = {X}_{t + \delta } \) and \( {U}_{B}^{\delta } = \inf \left\{ {t \geq 0 : {Y}_{t}^{\delta } \in B}\right\} \), then by the above, \( {U}_{B}^{\delta } \) is a stopping time with respect to the filtration \( \left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}^{\delta }\right\} \), where \( {\mathcal{F}}_{t}^...
Yes
Theorem 16.8 There exists an increasing sequence of compacts \( {K}_{n} \) contained in B such that \( {T}_{{K}_{n}} \downarrow {T}_{B} \)
Proof Let \( {Y}_{t}^{\delta } = {X}_{t + \delta } \) and \( {U}_{B}^{\delta } = \inf \left\{ {t \geq 0 : {Y}_{t} \in B}\right\} \) . Applying the above proposition to \( {Y}_{t}^{1/m} \), for each \( m \) there exist compact sets \( {L}_{n}^{m} \), increasing in \( n \) and contained in \( B \), such that \( {U}_{{L}_...
Yes
Theorem 16.9 If \( E \in \mathcal{O} \), then \( {D}_{E} \) is a stopping time.
The proof of this theorem is beyond the scope of this book, and we refer the reader to Dellacherie and Meyer (1978) for a proof.
No
Theorem 16.10 If \( X \) is an optional process taking values in \( \mathcal{S} \) and \( B \) is a Borel subset of \( \mathcal{S} \) , then \( {U}_{B} \) and \( {T}_{B} \) are stopping times.
Proof Since \( B \) is a Borel subset of \( \mathcal{S} \) and \( X \) is an optional process, then \( {1}_{B}\left( {X}_{t}\right) \) is also an optional process. \( {U}_{B} \) is then the debut of the set \( E = \left\{ {\left( {s,\omega }\right) : {1}_{B}\left( {{X}_{s}\left( \omega \right) }\right) = 1}\right\} \),...
No
Corollary 16.14 (1) If \( X \) and \( Y \) are optional processes such that \( \mathbb{P}\left( {{X}_{T} = {Y}_{T}}\right) = 1 \) for every finite stopping time \( T \), then \( X \) and \( Y \) are indistinguishable: \( \mathbb{P}\left( {{X}_{t} = {Y}_{t}}\right. \) for all \( \left. t\right) = 1 \) .
Proof We prove (1), the proof of (2) being similar. Let \( F = \left\{ {\left( {t,\omega }\right) : {X}_{t}\left( \omega \right) \neq {Y}_{t}\left( \omega \right) }\right\} \) . Then \( F \) is an optional set, and if \( \mathbb{P}\left( {\pi \left( F\right) }\right) > 0 \), there exists a stopping time \( U \) with \(...
Yes
Proposition 16.16 Let \( {X}_{t} \) be a predictable process with paths that are right continuous with left limits. If \( a \in \mathbb{R} \) and \( T = \inf \left\{ {t > 0 : {X}_{t} \geq a}\right\} \), then \( T \) is a predictable stopping time.
Proof The set \( A = \left\{ {\left( {t,\omega }\right) : {X}_{t}\left( \omega \right) \geq a}\right\} \) is a predictable set. Since \( {X}_{t} \) is right continuous, \( \lbrack T,\infty ) = A \cup \left( {T,\infty }\right) \in \mathcal{P} \) by Proposition 16.2, and so \( \left\lbrack {T, T}\right\rbrack = \lbrack T...
Yes
Theorem 16.17 Let \( X \) be a bounded process that is \( \mathcal{H} \) measurable. There exists a unique optional process \( {}^{o}X \) such that\n\n\[ \n{}^{o}{X}_{T}{1}_{\left( T < \infty \right) } = \mathbb{E}\left\lbrack {{X}_{T}{1}_{\left( T < \infty \right) } \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{T}}\right\rbrack \n\]\n\nfor all...
Proof of Theorem 16.17 The uniqueness is immediate from Corollary 16.14. We look at existence. If \( {X}_{t}\left( \omega \right) = {1}_{F}\left( \omega \right) {1}_{\lbrack a, b)}\left( t\right) \) where \( F \in {\mathcal{F}}_{\infty } \), we set \( {}^{o}{X}_{t} \) equal to \( \mathbb{E}\left\lbrack {{1}_{F} \mid {\...
Yes
Theorem 16.18 Let \( X \) be a bounded measurable process. There exists a unique predictable process \( {}^{p}X \), called the predictable projection of \( X \), such that\n\n\[ \mathbb{E}\left\lbrack {{}^{p}{X}_{T};T < \infty }\right\rbrack = \mathbb{E}\left\lbrack {{X}_{T};T < \infty }\right\rbrack \]\n\nfor every pr...
Proof Uniqueness is as before. If \( {X}_{t} = {1}_{F}\left( \omega \right) {1}_{(a, b\rbrack }\left( t\right) \), we let \( {}^{p}{X}_{t} = {1}_{(a, b\rbrack }\left( t\right) {Z}_{t - }\left( \omega \right) \), where \( {Z}_{t - } \) denotes the left-hand limit of \( {Z}_{t} \) at time \( t \) and \( {Z}_{t} \) is the...
Yes
Lemma 16.19 Suppose \( T \) is a predictable stopping time predicted by stopping times \( {T}_{n} \) . Then \( {\mathcal{F}}_{T - } = \mathop{\bigvee }\limits_{{n = 1}}^{\infty }{\mathcal{F}}_{{T}_{n}} \) .
Proof If \( X \) is left continuous, adapted, and bounded, then \( {X}_{T} = \lim {X}_{{T}_{m}} \) and \( {X}_{{T}_{m}} \in {\mathcal{F}}_{{T}_{m}} \subset \) \( \mathop{\bigvee }\limits_{n}{\mathcal{F}}_{{T}_{n}} \), so \( {X}_{T} \in \mathop{\bigvee }\limits_{n}{\mathcal{F}}_{{T}_{n}} \) . An argument using the monot...
No
Corollary 16.20 Suppose \( T \) is a predictable stopping time. If \( M \) is a uniformly integrable martingale with right-continuous paths, then\n\n\[ \mathbb{E}\left\lbrack {{M}_{T} \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{T - }}\right\rbrack = {M}_{T - } \]
Proof If \( {X}_{t} = {M}_{t - } \), then \( X \) is left continuous, hence predictable, so \( {M}_{T - } = {X}_{T} \) is \( {\mathcal{F}}_{T - } \) measurable by the definition of \( {\mathcal{F}}_{T - } \) and a limit argument. Suppose the sequence \( {T}_{n} \) predicts \( T \) . If \( A \in {\mathcal{F}}_{{T}_{m}} ...
No
Corollary 16.21 Let \( S \) be a predictable stopping time, \( M \) a square integrable martingale, and \( {N}_{t} = \Delta {M}_{S}{1}_{\left( t \geq S\right) } \) . Then \( {N}_{t} \) is a square integrable martingale.
Proof Since \( \left| {N}_{t}\right| \leq 2\mathop{\sup }\limits_{{s \geq 0}}\left| {M}_{s}\right|, N \) is square integrable. We will show \( N \) is a martingale by showing \( \mathbb{E}{N}_{T} = 0 \) for all bounded stopping times \( T \), and then appealing to Proposition 9.5.\n\nIf \( T \) is a bounded stopping ti...
Yes
Proposition 16.22 Let \( \left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}\right\} \) be the minimal augmented filtration of a Brownian motion. If \( T \) is a stopping time with respect to \( \left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}\right\} \), then \( T \) is a predictable stopping time.
Proof Let \( T \) be a stopping time for Brownian motion. Let \( g \) be a continuous strictly increasing function from \( \left\lbrack {0,\infty }\right\rbrack \) to \( \left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rbrack \), e.g., \( g\left( s\right) = \left( {2/\pi }\right) \arctan s \) . Let \( {M}_{t} \) be the right-continuous modifi...
Yes
Proposition 16.23 Suppose \( {A}_{t} \) is an increasing process such that\n\n(1) \( \Delta {A}_{T} = 0 \) whenever \( T \) is a totally inaccessible stopping time, and\n\n(2) \( \Delta {A}_{T} \) is \( {\mathcal{F}}_{T - } \) measurable whenever \( T \) is a predictable stopping time.\n\nThen \( A \) is predictable.
Proof Let \( {U}_{mi} \) be the \( i \) th time \( \left| {\Delta {A}_{t}}\right| \in \left( {{2}^{-m},{2}^{-m + 1}}\right\rbrack \) . The \( {U}_{mi} \) are predictable stopping times by Exercise 16.5. We decompose each \( {U}_{mi} \) as in Proposition 16.1. Since \( A \) does not jump at totally inaccessible times, n...
No
Theorem 16.24 Suppose \( \mu \) is a bounded positive measure on \( \mathcal{H} \) such that \( \mu \left( X\right) = 0 \) whenever \( X = 0 \) . Then there exists a unique right-continuous increasing process \( A \) with \( {A}_{0} = 0 \), a.s., such that \( \mu = {\mu }_{A} \) .
Proof First, uniqueness. If \( \mu = {\mu }_{A} = {\mu }_{B} \), let \( t > 0 \) and let \( C \) be the set of \( \omega \) ’s where \( {A}_{t}\left( \omega \right) > {B}_{t}\left( \omega \right) + \varepsilon \) . Then \( {\mu }_{A}\left( {\left\lbrack {0, t}\right\rbrack \times C}\right) \geq {\mu }_{B}\left( {\left\...
Yes
Theorem 16.25 Suppose \( A \) is right continuous, \( {A}_{0} = 0 \), a.s., and \( {\mu }_{A}\left( X\right) = {\mu }_{A}\left( {{}^{o}X}\right) \) for every bounded \( \mathcal{H} \) measurable process \( X \) . Then \( {A}_{t} \) is optional.
Proof Since \( {A}_{t} \) is right continuous, we need only show that \( {A}_{t} \) is adapted. Fix \( t \) and let \( Y \) be a bounded \( {\mathcal{F}}_{\infty } \) measurable random variable,\n\n\[ Z = Y - \mathbb{E}\left\lbrack {Y \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{t}}\right\rbrack \]\n\nand \( {X}_{s}\left( \omega \right) = {1}_...
Yes
Proposition 16.27 Let \( {A}_{t} \) be an adapted increasing process with \( {A}_{0} = 0 \), a.s. Then \( {A}_{t} - {\widetilde{A}}_{t} \) is a martingale.
Proof Let \( s < t \), let \( B \in {\mathcal{F}}_{s} \), define\n\n\[ S\left( \omega \right) = \left\{ {\begin{array}{ll} s, & \omega \in B, \\ \infty , & \omega \notin B, \end{array}\;\text{ and }\;T\left( \omega \right) = \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} t, & \omega \in B, \\ \infty , & \omega \notin B. \end{array}\right. ...
No
Proposition 16.28 If \( M \) is a predictable uniformly integrable martingale with paths that are right continuous with left limits, then \( M \) is continuous.
Proof Let \( \varepsilon > 0 \) and let \( T = \inf \left\{ {t : \left| {\Delta {M}_{t}}\right| > \varepsilon }\right\} .T \) is a predictable stopping time by Exercise 16.2. By Corollary 16.20, \( \mathbb{E}\left\lbrack {{M}_{T} \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{T - }}\right\rbrack = {M}_{T - } \) . By the definition of \( {\mathca...
No
Theorem 16.29 Suppose \( {Z}_{t} \) is a submartingale of class \( D \) with paths that are right continuous with left limits and such that \( {Z}_{0} = 0 \), a.s. Then \( {Z}_{t} = {M}_{t} + {A}_{t} \), where \( {M}_{t} \) is a uniformly integrable right-continuous martingale with \( {M}_{0} = 0 \), a.s., and \( {A}_{...
Proof We start with uniqueness. If \( {Z}_{t} = {M}_{t} + {A}_{t} = {N}_{t} + {B}_{t} \), then \( {M}_{t} - {N}_{t} = {B}_{t} - {A}_{t} \), and so \( {M}_{t} - {N}_{t} \) is a predictable uniformly integrable martingale. By Proposition \( {16.28},{M}_{t} - {N}_{t} \) is a continuous martingale. Since \( {M}_{t} - {N}_{...
Yes
Proposition 16.30 The process \( A \) is continuous if and only if \( \mathbb{E}{Z}_{{T}_{n}} \rightarrow \mathbb{E}{Z}_{T} \) whenever \( {T}_{n} \uparrow T \) and \( {T}_{n} < T \) on \( \left( {T > 0}\right) \) .
Proof Let \( T \) be a predictable stopping time predicted by the sequence \( {T}_{n} \) . Since we know \( \mathbb{E}\left\lbrack {{A}_{\infty } - {A}_{{T}_{n}}}\right\rbrack = \mathbb{E}\left\lbrack {{Z}_{\infty } - {Z}_{{T}_{n}}}\right\rbrack \), then taking limits,\n\n\[ \mathbb{E}\left\lbrack {{A}_{\infty } - {A}_...
Yes
Corollary 16.31 Let \( S \) be a totally inaccessible stopping time, \( Y \) a non-negative bounded random variable that is \( {\mathcal{F}}_{S} \) measurable, and \( {A}_{t} = Y{1}_{\left( t \geq S\right) } \) . Let \( \widetilde{A} \) be the compensator of \( A \) . Then \( \widetilde{A} \) has continuous paths.
Proof Let \( T \) be a stopping time and let \( {T}_{n} \) be stopping times increasing to \( T \) . If we have \( \mathbb{P}\left( {T = S}\right) = 0 \), then \( \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{n \rightarrow \infty }}{A}_{{T}_{n}} = {A}_{T} \), a.s., since \( A \) jumps only at time \( S \) . If \( \mathbb{P}\left( {T = S}\ri...
Yes
Proposition 16.33 Let \( U \) be a stopping time, \( Y \) a non-negative integrable random variable that is \( {\mathcal{F}}_{U} \) measurable. Let \( {N}_{t} \) be the right-continuous version of \( \mathbb{E}\left\lbrack {Y \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{t}}\right\rbrack \) . Suppose there exists \( K > 0 \) such that \( {N}_{t...
Proof As in the proof of Proposition 16.32, it suffices to show\n\n\[ \mathbb{E}\left\lbrack {{A}_{\infty } - {A}_{T - };T < \infty }\right\rbrack \leq K\mathbb{P}\left( {T < \infty }\right) ,\]\n\n(16.14)\n\nwhere \( \lambda > 0 \) and \( T = \inf \left\{ {t : {A}_{t} \geq \lambda }\right\} \) . Since \( A \) is a pre...
Yes
Lemma 17.1 If \( {A}_{t} = {B}_{t} - {C}_{t} \), where \( {B}_{t} \) and \( {C}_{t} \) are increasing right-continuous processes with \( {B}_{0} = {C}_{0} = 0 \), a.s., and in addition \( B \) and \( C \) are bounded, then\n\n\[ \mathbb{E}\mathop{\sup }\limits_{{t \geq 0}}{\widetilde{A}}_{t}^{2} < \infty \]
Proof By Proposition 16.32, \( \mathbb{E}{\widetilde{B}}_{\infty }^{2} < \infty \) and \( \mathbb{E}{\widetilde{C}}_{\infty }^{2} < \infty \), and so\n\n\[ \mathbb{E}\mathop{\sup }\limits_{{t \geq 0}}{\widetilde{A}}_{t}^{2} \leq \mathbb{E}\left\lbrack {2\mathop{\sup }\limits_{{t \geq 0}}{\widetilde{B}}_{t}^{2} + 2\math...
Yes
Lemma 17.2 Suppose \( {A}_{t} \) is a bounded increasing right-continuous process with \( {A}_{0} = 0 \) , a.s., \( {\widetilde{A}}_{t} \) is the compensator of \( A \), and \( {M}_{t} = {A}_{t} - {\widetilde{A}}_{t} \) . Suppose \( {N}_{t} \) is a right continuous square integrable martingale such that \( \left( {\Del...
Proof By Lemma 17.1, \( M \) is square integrable. Suppose\n\n\[ H\left( {s,\omega }\right) = K\left( \omega \right) {1}_{(a, b\rbrack }\left( s\right) \]\n\nwith \( K \) being \( {\mathcal{F}}_{a} \) measurable. Since \( {M}_{t} \) is of bounded variation, we have (this is a Lebesgue-Stieltjes integral here)\n\n\[ \ma...
Yes
Proposition 17.4 \( {M}_{t}^{2} - {\left\lbrack M\right\rbrack }_{t} \) is a martingale.
Proof By the orthogonality lemma and (17.1) it is easy to see that\n\n\[ \langle M{\rangle }_{t} = {\left\langle {M}^{c}\right\rangle }_{t} + \mathop{\sum }\limits_{i}{\left\langle {M}_{i}\right\rangle }_{t} \]\n\nSince \( {M}_{t}^{2} - \langle M{\rangle }_{t} \) is a martingale, we need only show \( {\left\lbrack M\ri...
No
Theorem 17.5 Suppose \( {X}_{t} = {M}_{t} + {A}_{t} \), where \( {M}_{t} \) is a square integrable martingale and \( {A}_{t} \) is a process with paths of bounded variation whose total variation is integrable. Suppose \( f \) is \( {C}^{2} \) on \( \mathbb{R} \) with bounded first and second derivatives. Then\n\n\[ f\l...
Proof The proof will be given in several steps. Set\n\n\[ S\left( t\right) = {\int }_{0}^{t}{f}^{\prime }\left( {X}_{s - }\right) d{X}_{s},\;Q\left( t\right) = \frac{1}{2}{\int }_{0}^{t}{f}^{\prime \prime }\left( {X}_{s - }\right) d{\left\langle {X}^{c}\right\rangle }_{s}, \]\n\nand\n\n\[ J\left( t\right) = \mathop{\su...
No
Lemma 17.6 (1) The sum of two local martingales is a local martingale.
Proof (1) If the sequence \( {S}_{n} \) reduces \( M \) and the sequence \( {T}_{n} \) reduces \( N \), then \( {S}_{n} \land {T}_{n} \) will reduce \( M + N \) .
No
Lemma 17.7 (1) If \( T \) strongly reduces \( M \) and \( S \leq T \), then \( S \) strongly reduces \( M \) .
Proof (1) Note \( \mathbb{E}\left\lbrack {\left| {M}_{S}\right| \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{s}}\right\rbrack \leq \mathbb{E}\left\lbrack {\left| {M}_{T}\right| \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{s}}\right\rbrack \) by Jensen’s inequality, hence \( S \) strongly reduces \( M \) .
Yes
Lemma 17.8 If \( M \) is a local martingale with \( {M}_{0} = 0 \), then there exist stopping times \( {T}_{n} \uparrow \infty \) that strongly reduce \( M \) .
Proof Let \( {R}_{n} \uparrow \infty \) be a sequence reducing \( M \) . Let\n\n\[ \n{S}_{nm} = {R}_{n} \land \inf \left\{ {t : \mathbb{E}\left\lbrack {\left| {M}_{{R}_{n}}\right| \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{t}}\right\rbrack \geq m}\right\} .\n\]\n\nArrange the stopping times \( {S}_{nm} \) into a single sequence \( \left\{ {U...
Yes
Corollary 17.11 If \( {X}_{t} = \left( {{X}_{t}^{1},\ldots ,{X}_{t}^{d}}\right) \) is a process taking values in \( {\mathbb{R}}^{d} \) such that each component is a semimartingale, and \( f \) is a \( {C}^{2} \) function on \( {\mathbb{R}}^{d} \), then
\[ f\left( {X}_{t}\right) = f\left( {X}_{0}\right) + {\int }_{0}^{t}\mathop{\sum }\limits_{{i = 1}}^{d}\frac{\partial f}{\partial {x}_{i}}\left( {X}_{s - }\right) d{X}_{s}^{i} \] \[ + \frac{1}{2}{\int }_{0}^{t}\mathop{\sum }\limits_{{i, j = 1}}^{d}\frac{{\partial }^{2}f}{\partial {x}_{i}\partial {x}_{j}}\left( {X}_{s -...
Yes
Corollary 17.12 If \( X \) and \( Y \) are semimartingales of the above form,
Proof Apply Theorem 17.10 with \( f\left( x\right) = {x}^{2} \) . Since in this case\n\n\[ f\left( {X}_{s}\right) - f\left( {X}_{s - }\right) - {f}^{\prime }\left( {X}_{s - }\right) \Delta {X}_{s} = \Delta {X}_{s}^{2}, \]\n\nwe obtain\n\n\[ {X}_{t}^{2} = {X}_{0}^{2} + 2{\int }_{0}^{t}{X}_{s - }d{X}_{s} + {\left\lbrack ...
Yes
Theorem 17.13 Let \( {X}_{t} \) be a semimartingale. Define\n\n\[ \n{Z}_{t} = {Z}_{0}\exp \left( {{X}_{t} - \frac{1}{2}{\left\langle {X}^{c}\right\rangle }_{t}}\right) \mathop{\prod }\limits_{{0 \leq s \leq t}}\left( {1 + \Delta {X}_{s}}\right) {e}^{-\Delta {X}_{s}}.\n\]\n\nThen \( {Z}_{t} \) is a semimartingale, \( \m...
Proof Since the product of finitely many functions of bounded variation which are purely discontinuous will give a function of the same type and in each finite interval there are only finitely many jumps of \( {X}_{t} \) of size larger in absolute value than \( 1/2 \), it suffices to consider\n\n\[ \n{V}_{t}^{\prime } ...
Yes
Theorem 17.14 Suppose \( X \) is a local martingale with respect to \( \mathbb{P} \). Then \( {X}_{t} - {D}_{t} \) is a local martingale with respect to \( \mathbb{Q} \), where\n\n\[ \n{D}_{t} = {\int }_{0}^{t}\frac{1}{{M}_{s}}d{\left\lbrack X, M\right\rbrack }_{s} = {\int }_{0}^{t}\frac{{M}_{s - }}{{M}_{s}}d{\left\lbr...
Proof Exercise 17.6 tells us that it suffices to show that \( {M}_{t}\left( {{X}_{t} - {D}_{t}}\right) \) is a local martingale with respect to \( \mathbb{P} \). By Corollary 17.12,\n\n\[ \nd{\left( M\left( X - D\right) \right) }_{t} = {\left( X - D\right) }_{t - }d{M}_{t} + {M}_{t - }d{X}_{t} - {M}_{t - }d{D}_{t}\n\]\...
No
Corollary 18.3 Let \( {\mathcal{F}}_{t} \) and \( {N}_{t}\left( {A}_{k}\right) \) be as in Theorem 18.2. Suppose \( {Y}_{t} \) is a process with paths that are right continuous with left limits such that \( {Y}_{t} - {Y}_{s} \) is independent of \( {\mathcal{F}}_{s} \) whenever \( s < t \) and \( {Y}_{t} - {Y}_{s} \) h...
Proof The law of \( {Y}_{0} \) is the same as that of \( {Y}_{t} - {Y}_{t} \), so \( {Y}_{0} = 0 \), a.s. By the fact that \( Y \) has stationary and independent increments,\n\n\[ \mathbb{E}{e}^{{iu}{Y}_{s + t}} = \mathbb{E}{e}^{{iu}{Y}_{s}}\mathbb{E}{e}^{{iu}\left( {{Y}_{s + t} - {Y}_{s}}\right) } = \mathbb{E}{e}^{{iu...
Yes
Lemma 19.3 Suppose \( {P}_{t} \) are Markov transition probabilities. If \( f \) is Borel measurable and either non-negative or bounded, then \( {P}_{t}f \) is non-negative (respectively, bounded) and Borel measurable and\n\n\[ \n{P}_{t}f\left( x\right) = {\mathbb{E}}^{x}f\left( {X}_{t}\right) ,\;x \in \mathcal{S}.\n\]...
Proof Using (19.7) and Definition 19.1(2), the Borel measurability and (19.9) hold when \( f \) is the indicator of a set \( A \) . By linearity they hold for simple functions, and then using monotone convergence they hold for non-negative functions. Using linearity again, we have measurability and (19.9) holding for \...
Yes
Proposition 19.4 Let \( W \) be a Brownian motion as defined by Definition 2.1, let \( {W}_{t}^{x} = x + {W}_{t} \) , and let \( \left( {{X}_{t},{\mathbb{P}}^{x}}\right) \) be defined by (19.2) and (19.3). If \( f \) is bounded and Borel measurable,
Proof We will first prove\n\n\[ \n{\mathbb{E}}^{x}\left\lbrack {f\left( {X}_{t + s}\right) \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{s}}\right\rbrack = {\mathbb{E}}^{{X}_{s}}f\left( {X}_{t}\right) \n\]\n\n(19.16)\n\nwhen \( f\left( x\right) = {e}^{i\alpha x} \) . Using independent increments and the fact that \( {W}_{t + s} - {W}_{s} \) has...
Yes
Proposition 19.5 Ifs, \( t > 0 \) and \( x, z \in \mathbb{R} \), then\n\n\[ \n{\int }_{y \in \mathbb{R}}\frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi t}}{e}^{-{\left( y - x\right) }^{2}/{2t}}\frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi s}}{e}^{-{\left( z - y\right) }^{2}/{2s}}{dy} \n\]\n\n(19.18)\n\n\[ \n= \frac{1}{\sqrt{{2\pi }\left( {s + t}\right) }}{e}^{-{\left( z -...
Proof This is a well-known property of the Gaussian density, but we can derive (19.18) from Proposition 19.4. Let \( f \) be continuous with compact support. Taking expectations in (19.15),\n\n\[ \n{\mathbb{E}}^{x}f\left( {X}_{t + s}\right) = {\mathbb{E}}^{x}\left\lbrack {{\mathbb{E}}^{{X}_{s}}f\left( {X}_{t}\right) }\...
Yes
Proposition 20.3 Let \( \left( {{X}_{t},{\mathbb{P}}^{x}}\right) \) be a Markov process and suppose that (20.4) holds. If Assumption 20.1 holds and \( f \) is a bounded Borel measurable function, then\n\n\[ \n{\mathbb{E}}^{x}\left\lbrack {f\left( {X}_{s + t}\right) \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{s}}\right\rbrack = {\mathbb{E}}^{{...
Proof We start with (20.5). By linearity, we have\n\n\[ \n{\mathbb{E}}^{x}\left\lbrack {f\left( {X}_{s + t}\right) \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{s}^{0}}\right\rbrack = {\mathbb{E}}^{{X}_{s}}f\left( {X}_{t}\right) ,\;{\mathbb{P}}^{x}\text{-a.s.,}\n\]\n\n(20.8)\n\nwhen \( f \) is a simple random variable, then by monotone converge...
Yes
Proposition 20.5 Let \( \\left( {{X}_{t},{\\mathbb{P}}^{x}}\\right) \) be a Markov process and suppose (20.11) holds. Suppose \( Y = \\mathop{\\prod }\\limits_{{i = 1}}^{n}{f}_{i}\\left( {X}_{{t}_{i} - s}\\right) \), where the \( {f}_{i} \) are bounded, Borel measurable, and \( s \\leq {t}_{1} \\leq \\cdots \\leq {t}_{...
Proof We will prove this by induction on \( n \) . The case \( n = 1 \) is (20.11), so we suppose the equality holds for \( n \) and prove it for \( n + 1 \) .\n\nLet \( V = \\mathop{\\prod }\\limits_{{j = 2}}^{{n + 1}}{f}_{j}\\left( {X}_{{t}_{j} - {t}_{1}}\\right) \) and \( h\\left( y\\right) = {\\mathbb{E}}^{y}V \) ....
Yes
Theorem 20.6 Let \( \left( {{X}_{t},{\mathbb{P}}^{x}}\right) \) be a Markov process and suppose (20.11) holds. Suppose \( Y \) is bounded and measurable with respect to \( {\mathcal{F}}_{\infty } \) . Then\n\n\[ \n{\mathbb{E}}^{x}\left\lbrack {Y \circ {\theta }_{s} \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{s}}\right\rbrack = {\mathbb{E}}^{{...
Proof If in Proposition 20.5 we take \( {f}_{j}\left( x\right) = {1}_{{A}_{j}}\left( x\right) \) for Borel measurable \( {A}_{j} \), we have\n\n\[ \n{\mathbb{E}}^{x}\left\lbrack {{1}_{B} \circ {\theta }_{s} \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{s}}\right\rbrack = {\mathbb{E}}^{{X}_{s}}{1}_{B}\n\]\n\n(20.14)\n\nwhen \( B = \left\{ {\omeg...
Yes
Proposition 20.7 Let \( \\left( {{X}_{t},{\mathbb{P}}^{x}}\\right) \) be a Markov process with respect to \( \\left\\{ {\\mathcal{F}}_{t}\\right\\} \). Let \( {\\mathcal{F}}_{t}^{0} \) and \( {\\mathcal{F}}_{t} \) be defined by (20.2) and (20.3). Then \( {\\mathcal{F}}_{t} = {\\mathcal{F}}_{t}^{0} \) for each \( t \\ge...
Proof Let \( {Y}_{1} = \\mathop{\\prod }\\limits_{{i = 1}}^{n}{f}_{i}\\left( {X}_{{t}_{i}}\\right) \) and \( {Y}_{2} = \\mathop{\\prod }\\limits_{{j = 1}}^{m}{g}_{j}\\left( {X}_{{u}_{j}}\\right) \), where \( {t}_{1} < \\cdots < {t}_{n} \\leq s \) and \( 0 \\leq {u}_{1} < \\cdots < {u}_{m} \) and the \( {f}_{j} \) and \...
Yes
Proposition 20.8 Let \( \\left( {{X}_{t},{\\mathbb{P}}^{x}}\\right) \) be a Markov process with respect to \( \\left\\{ {\\mathcal{F}}_{t}\\right\\} \) . If \( A \\in {\\mathcal{F}}_{0} \), then for each \( x,{\\mathbb{P}}^{x}\\left( A\\right) \) is equal to 0 or 1 .
Proof Suppose \( A \\in {\\mathcal{F}}_{0} \) . Under \( {\\mathbb{P}}^{x},{X}_{0} = x \), a.s., and then\n\n\[ \n{\\mathbb{P}}^{x}\\left( A\\right) = {\\mathbb{E}}^{{X}_{0}}{1}_{A} = {\\mathbb{E}}^{x}\\left\\lbrack {{1}_{A} \\circ {\\theta }_{0} \\mid {\\mathcal{F}}_{0}}\\right\\rbrack = {1}_{A} \\circ {\\theta }_{0} ...
Yes
Theorem 20.9 Suppose \( \left( {{X}_{t},{\mathbb{P}}^{x}}\right) \) is a Markov process with respect to \( \left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}\right\} \), that Assumption 20.1 holds, and that \( T \) is finite stopping time. If \( Y \) is bounded and measurable with respect to \( {\mathcal{F}}_{\infty } \), then
Proof Following the proofs of Section 20.2, it is enough to prove\n\n\[ \n{\mathbb{E}}^{x}\left\lbrack {f\left( {X}_{T + t}\right) \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{T}}\right\rbrack = {\mathbb{E}}^{{X}_{T}}f\left( {X}_{t}\right) \n\]\n\n(20.15)\n\nfor \( f \) bounded. We can obtain this by a limit argument if we have (20.15) for \( ...
Yes
Proposition 20.10 If \( \left( {{X}_{t},{\mathbb{P}}^{x}}\right) \) is a strong Markov process and Assumption 20.1 holds, then \( {X}_{t} \) is quasi-left continuous.
Proof First suppose \( T \) is bounded, \( {T}_{n} \) increases to \( T, Y = \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{n \rightarrow \infty }}{X}_{{T}_{n}} \), and \( f \) and \( g \) are bounded and continuous. If \( {T}_{n} = T \) for some \( n \), then \( \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{n \rightarrow \infty }}g\left( {X}_{{T}_{n} + t}\right)...
Yes
Proposition 21.2 If \( A < \infty \), then\n\n\[ \mathop{\sup }\limits_{{x \in D}}{\mathbb{P}}^{x}\left( {{\int }_{0}^{S}f\left( {X}_{s}\right) {ds} \geq {2kA}}\right) \leq {2}^{-k}. \]\n\n(21.3)
Proof Let \( {B}_{t} = {\int }_{0}^{t \land S}f\left( {X}_{s}\right) {ds} \). This is a special case of what is known as an additive functional; see Section 22.3. Let \( {U}_{1} = \inf \left\{ {t : {B}_{t} \geq {2A}}\right\} \), and let \( {U}_{i + 1} = {U}_{i} + {U}_{1} \circ {\theta }_{{U}_{i}} \). To explain this fo...
Yes
Proposition 21.3 Let \( W \) be a one-dimensional Brownian motion. If \( T \) is a finite stopping time and \( a < b \), then\n\n\[ \mathbb{P}\left( {{W}_{T + t} \in \left\lbrack {a, b}\right\rbrack \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{T}}\right) \leq \frac{b - a}{\sqrt{2\pi t}},\;\text{ a.s. } \]
Proof Let \( \left( {{X}_{t},{\mathbb{P}}^{x}}\right) \) be a one-dimensional Brownian motion. If \( y \in \mathbb{R} \), then\n\n\[ {\mathbb{P}}^{y}\left( {{X}_{t} \in \left\lbrack {a, b}\right\rbrack }\right) = {\mathbb{P}}^{0}\left( {{X}_{t} \in \left\lbrack {a - y, b - y}\right\rbrack }\right) \]\n\n(21.4)\n\n\[ = ...
Yes
Lemma 21.4 Let \( \\left( {{X}_{t},{\\mathbb{P}}^{x}}\\right) \) be a strong Markov process with state space \( \\mathcal{S} \) . For all \( x \\in \\mathcal{S} \) and all \( \\lambda \\geq 0 \) ,\n\n\[ \n{\\mathbb{P}}^{x}\\left( {\\mathop{\\sup }\\limits_{{s \\leq t}}d\\left( {{X}_{s}, x}\\right) \\geq \\lambda }\\rig...
Proof Let us use the notation\n\n\[ \nF\\left( {t,\\lambda }\\right) = \\mathop{\\sup }\\limits_{{s \\leq t}}\\mathop{\\sup }\\limits_{{y \\in \\mathcal{S}}}{\\mathbb{P}}^{y}\\left( {d\\left( {{X}_{s},{X}_{0}}\\right) \\geq \\lambda }\\right) .\n\]\n\n(21.5)\n\n\n\nWrite \( S = \\inf \\left\\{ {t : d\\left( {{X}_{t},{X...
No
Proposition 21.5 Let \( \left( {{X}_{t},{\mathbb{P}}^{x}}\right) \) be a strong Markov process. With \( F\left( {t,\lambda }\right) \) defined as in (21.5), suppose\n\n\[ \frac{F\left( {t,\lambda }\right) }{t} \rightarrow 0 \]\n\n(21.7)\n\nas \( t \rightarrow 0 \) for each \( \lambda > 0 \) . Then \( {X}_{t} \) has con...
Proof Suppose \( \lambda ,{t}_{0} > 0 \) and \( X \) has a jump of size larger than \( {4\lambda } \) at some time before \( {t}_{0} \) with positive probability, that is,\n\n\[ {\mathbb{P}}^{x}\left( {\mathop{\sup }\limits_{{t \leq {t}_{0}}}d\left( {{X}_{t - },{X}_{t}}\right) \geq {4\lambda }}\right) > 0, \]\n\nwhere ...
Yes
Proposition 21.6 Define\n\n\[ h\left( x\right) = {\mathbb{E}}^{x}f\left( {X}_{{\tau }_{D}}\right) \]\n\nand \( {\mathcal{F}}_{s}^{\prime } = {\mathcal{F}}_{s \land {\tau }_{D}} \) . Then for each \( x, h\left( {X}_{t \land {\tau }_{D}}\right) \) is a martingale under \( {\mathbb{P}}^{x} \) with respect to the filtratio...
Proof Let \( s < t \) . Consider a path \( \omega \) starting at \( x \) and continuing until it exits \( D \) at time \( {\tau }_{D}\left( \omega \right) \) . If we have \( u \leq {\tau }_{D} \) and we cut off the first \( u \) time units of the path, we have a path going from \( {X}_{u}\left( \omega \right) \) and pr...
Yes
Proposition 21.8 Suppose there exists a cone \( V \) with vertex \( y \in \partial D \) such that \( V \cap B\left( {y, r}\right) \subset \) \( {D}^{c} \) for some \( r > 0 \) . Then \( y \) is regular for \( {D}^{c} \) .
Proof By translation and rotation of the coordinates, we may suppose \( y = 0 \) and \( V = {\widetilde{V}}_{a} \) for some \( a \) . Then for each \( t \) ,\n\n\[ \n{\mathbb{P}}^{0}\left( {{\tau }_{D} \leq t}\right) \geq {\mathbb{P}}^{0}\left( {{X}_{t} \in {D}^{c}}\right) \geq {\mathbb{P}}^{0}\left( {{X}_{t} \in V \ca...
Yes
Proposition 22.1 If \( \left( {{X}_{t},{\mathbb{P}}^{x}}\right) \) is a strong Markov process and (22.2) holds, then \( \left( {{\widehat{X}}_{t},{\mathbb{P}}^{x}}\right) \) satisfies the Markov and strong Markov properties.
Proof As in Section 20.2, we need to show\n\n\[ \n{\mathbb{E}}^{x}\left\lbrack {f\left( {\widehat{X}}_{t}\right) \circ {\theta }_{T} \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{T}}\right\rbrack = {\mathbb{E}}^{{\widehat{X}}_{T}}f\left( {\widehat{X}}_{t}\right) ,\;{\mathbb{P}}^{x}\text{-a.s. } \n\] \n\nIf \( A \in {\mathcal{F}}_{T} \) ,\n\n\[ ...
Yes
Proposition 22.2 Suppose \( \\left( {{X}_{t},{\\mathbb{P}}^{x}}\\right) \) is a strong Markov process and that \( h \) is non-negative and invariant. Then \( \\left( {{X}_{t},{\\mathbb{P}}_{h}^{x}}\\right) \) forms a strong Markov process.
Proof Suppose \( A \\in {\\mathcal{F}}_{s} \) and \( h\\left( x\\right) \\neq 0 \) . (We leave consideration of the case where \( h\\left( x\\right) = 0 \) to the reader.) Then\n\n\[ \n{\\mathbb{E}}_{h}^{x}\\left\\lbrack {f\\left( {X}_{t + s}\\right) ;A}\\right\\rbrack = \\frac{{\\mathbb{E}}^{x}\\left\\lbrack {f\\left(...
No
Proposition 22.3 Let \( \left( {{X}_{t},{\mathbb{P}}^{x}}\right) \) be a strong Markov process and \( {A}_{t} \) an additive functional. With \( B \) defined as above, \( \left( {{X}_{t}^{\prime },{\mathbb{P}}^{x}}\right) \) is also a strong Markov process.
Proof We verify the strong Markov property. Let \( {\mathcal{F}}_{t}^{\prime } = {\mathcal{F}}_{{B}_{t}} \) . Then if \( T \) is a stopping time for \( {\mathcal{F}}_{t}^{\prime } \), we have\n\n\[ \n{\mathbb{E}}^{x}\left\lbrack {f\left( {X}_{T + t}^{\prime }\right) \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{T}^{\prime }}\right\rbrack = {\ma...
Yes
Lemma 23.1 If \( f \) is excessive, there exist functions \( {g}_{n} \geq 0 \) such that \( U{g}_{n} \) increases up to \( f \) , where \( U{g}_{n} \) is defined by (23.1).
Proof Let \( {g}_{n} = n\left( {f - {P}_{1/n}f}\right) \) . Since \( f \) is excessive, then \( {g}_{n} \geq 0 \) . We have\n\n\[ U{g}_{n} = n{\int }_{0}^{\infty }{P}_{s}{fds} - n{\int }_{0}^{\infty }{P}_{s + \left( {1/n}\right) }{fds} \]\n\n\[ = n{\int }_{0}^{1/n}{P}_{s}{fds} \]\n\nwhich is less than \( f \) and incre...
Yes
Proposition 23.2 (1) If \( f \) is excessive, \( T \) is a finite stopping time, and \( h\left( x\right) = {\mathbb{E}}^{x}f\left( {X}_{T}\right) \) , then \( h \) is excessive.
Proof (1) First suppose \( f = {Ug} \) for some non-negative function \( g \) . Then\n\n\[ h\left( x\right) = {\mathbb{E}}^{x}{Ug}\left( {X}_{T}\right) = {\mathbb{E}}^{x}{\mathbb{E}}^{{X}_{T}}{\int }_{0}^{\infty }g\left( {X}_{s}\right) {ds} \]\n\n(23.2)\n\n\[ = {\mathbb{E}}^{x}{\int }_{0}^{\infty }g\left( {X}_{s + T}\r...
Yes
Proposition 23.3 Let \( \left( {{X}_{t},{\mathbb{P}}^{x}}\right) \) be a strong Markov process. If \( f \) is excessive, then for each \( x, f\left( {X}_{t}\right) \) is right continuous with left limits \( {\mathbb{P}}^{x} \) almost surely.
For a proof, we refer the reader to Blumenthal and Getoor (1968), Theorem II.2.12 or to Exercise 23.8.
No
Proposition 23.4 Suppose that \( g \) is non-negative, bounded, and continuous and that Assumption 20.1 holds. Let \( {g}_{0} = g \), let \( {T}_{n} = \left\{ {k/{2}^{n} : 0 \leq k \leq n{2}^{n}}\right\} \), and define\n\n\[ \n{g}_{n}\left( x\right) = \mathop{\max }\limits_{{t \in {T}_{n}}}{P}_{t}{g}_{n - 1}\left( x\ri...
Proof Since \( {g}_{n}\left( x\right) \geq {P}_{0}{g}_{n - 1}\left( x\right) = {\mathbb{E}}^{x}{g}_{n - 1}\left( {X}_{0}\right) = {g}_{n - 1}\left( x\right) \), the sequence \( {g}_{n}\left( x\right) \) is increasing. Call the limit \( H\left( x\right) \) .\n\nWe first show \( H \) is lower semicontinuous. If \( {g}_{n...
Yes
Corollary 23.6 Suppose there exists a Borel set \( A \) such that \( h \) is an excessive majorant of \( g \) , where \( h\left( x\right) = {\mathbb{E}}^{x}g\left( {X}_{{\tau }_{A}}\right) \) and \( {\tau }_{A} = \inf \left\{ {t : {X}_{t} \notin A}\right\} \) . Then \( {g}^{ * }\left( x\right) = h\left( x\right) \) .
Proof Let \( G \) be the least excessive majorant of \( g \) . Then \( h\left( x\right) \geq G\left( x\right) \) . However, \[ h\left( x\right) = {\mathbb{E}}^{x}g\left( {X}_{{\tau }_{A}}\right) \leq \mathop{\sup }\limits_{T}{\mathbb{E}}^{x}g\left( {X}_{T}\right) = {g}^{ * }\left( x\right) = G\left( x\right) \] by Theo...
Yes
Corollary 23.7 Suppose \( g \) is continuous and \( G \), the least excessive majorant of \( g \), is lower semicontinuous. Let \( D \) be the continuation region, suppose \( {\tau }_{D} < \infty \), a.s., and let \( h\left( x\right) = \) \( {\mathbb{E}}^{x}g\left( {X}_{{\tau }_{D}}\right) \) . If \( h \geq g \), then ...
Proof Note \( D = \{ x : g\left( x\right) < G\left( x\right) \} = { \cup }_{a < b}\left\lbrack {\left( {g\left( x\right) < a}\right) \cap \left( {G\left( x\right) > b}\right) }\right\rbrack \), where the union is over all pairs of real numbers \( a < b \) . Since \( G \) is lower semicontinuous and \( g \) is continuou...
Yes
Theorem 24.3 Suppose \( \sigma \) and \( b \) are Lipschitz functions, but not necessarily bounded. Then there exists a pathwise solution to (24.1) and this solution is pathwise unique.
Proof Let \( {\sigma }_{n} \) and \( {b}_{n} \) be bounded Lipschitz functions that agree with \( \sigma \) and \( b \), respectively, on \( \left\lbrack {-n, n}\right\rbrack \) . Let \( {X}_{n} \) be the unique pathwise solution to (24.1) with \( \sigma \) and \( b \) replaced by \( {\sigma }_{n} \) and \( {b}_{n} \),...
No
The unique pathwise solution to\n\n\[ d{X}_{t} = A{X}_{t}d{W}_{t} + B{X}_{t}{dt} \]
is\n\n\[ {X}_{t} = {X}_{0}{e}^{A{W}_{t} + \left( {B - {A}^{2}/2}\right) t}. \]
Yes
Proposition 24.7 Suppose \( {Y}_{t} \) is the square of a Bessel process of order \( v \) . Suppose \( {Y}_{0} = y \) . The following hold with probability one.\n\n(1) If \( v > 2 \) and \( y > 0,{Y}_{t} \) never hits 0 .\n\n(2) If \( v = 2 \) and \( y > 0,{Y}_{t} \) hits every neighborhood of 0, but never hits the poi...
Proof We prove (2). An application of Itô's formula with the process being the square of a Bessel process of order 2 and the function being \( \log x \) shows that \( \log {Y}_{t} \) is a martingale up until the first hitting time of 0 ; cf. Exercise 21.1. The quadratic variation of \( \log {Y}_{t} \) is \( {\int }_{0}...
No
Proposition 25.2 Suppose \( \sigma \) and \( b \) are bounded Lipschitz functions and \( {x}_{0} \in {\mathbb{R}}^{d} \) . Then weak uniqueness holds for (25.1).
Proof For notational simplicity we consider the case of dimension one. Suppose \( \left( {X, W,\mathbb{P}}\right) \) and \( \left( {{X}^{\prime },{W}^{\prime },{\mathbb{P}}^{\prime }}\right) \) are two weak solutions to (25.1). Let \( {X}_{0}\left( t\right) = {x}_{0} \) and define \( {X}_{i + 1}\left( t\right) \) by\n\...
Yes
Proposition 25.3 If \( \sigma \) is Borel measurable and there exist \( {c}_{2} > {c}_{1} > 0 \) such that \( {c}_{1} \leq \) \( \sigma \left( x\right) \leq {c}_{2} \) for all \( x \), then weak existence and weak uniqueness hold for (25.6).
Proof We consider only uniqueness, leaving existence as Exercise 25.1. Suppose \( \left( {X, W,\mathbb{P}}\right) \) and \( \left( {{X}^{\prime },{W}^{\prime },{\mathbb{P}}^{\prime }}\right) \) are two weak solutions. Then \( {X}_{t} \) is a martingale, and as in Section 12.2, if we set\n\n\[ \n{A}_{t} = {\int }_{0}^{t...
No
Lemma 26.1 Suppose \( {X}_{t}^{\left( j\right) }, j = 1,2 \), are two continuous processes such that\n\n\[ \mathbb{E}\exp \left( {-{\int }_{0}^{1}f\left( s\right) {X}_{s}^{\left( 1\right) }{ds}}\right) = \mathbb{E}\exp \left( {-{\int }_{0}^{1}f\left( s\right) {X}_{s}^{\left( 2\right) }{ds}}\right) \]\n\nwhenever \( f \...
Proof Let \( \varphi \) be a non-negative continuous function with support in \( \left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rbrack \) such that \( {\int }_{0}^{1}\varphi \left( x\right) {dx} = 1 \), and let \( {\varphi }_{\varepsilon }\left( x\right) = {\varepsilon }^{-1}\varphi \left( {x/\varepsilon }\right) \), so that the sequence \(...
Yes
Theorem 27.1 \( {N}_{t}\left( \cdot \right) \) is a Poisson point process.
Proof If \( {N}_{t}\left( B\right) \) is not infinite, then it has right-continuous paths that increase at most 1 at any given time. The main step will be to show that \( {N}_{t}\left( B\right) \) has stationary increments and \( {N}_{t}\left( B\right) - {N}_{s}\left( B\right) \) is independent of the \( \sigma \) -fie...
Yes
Proposition 27.2 If\n\n\[ A = \\left\\{ {f \\in \\mathcal{E} : \\mathop{\\sup }\\limits_{t}\\left| {f\\left( t\\right) }\\right| > a}\\right\\} \]\n\nthen \( m\\left( A\\right) = 1/a \) .
Proof Let \( U = \\inf \\left\\{ {t : \\left| {W}_{t}\\right| = a}\\right\\} \) and \( V = \\inf \\left\\{ {t > U : {W}_{t} = 0}\\right\\} \) . Since \( \\left| {W}_{t}\\right| - {L}_{t}^{0} \) is a martingale by Theorem 14.1, then \( {\\mathbb{E}}^{0}\\left| {W}_{t \\land U}\\right| = {\\mathbb{E}}^{0}{L}_{t \\land U}...
Yes
Lemma 29.1 The best mean square error estimate of \( f\left( {X}_{t}\right) \) over the class of \( {\mathcal{F}}_{t}^{Z} \) measurable random variables is\n\n\[ Y = \mathbb{E}\left\lbrack {f\left( {X}_{t}\right) \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{t}^{Z}}\right\rbrack \]
Proof By our assumptions on \( f \), the random variable \( V = f\left( {X}_{t}\right) \) is in \( {L}^{2}\left( \mathbb{P}\right) \) . Let \( Y \) be the best mean square estimator. The collection \( \mathcal{M} \) of \( {L}^{2} \) random variables which are \( {\mathcal{F}}_{t}^{Z} \) measurable is a linear subspace ...
Yes
Proposition 29.2 \( {N}_{t} \) is a Brownian motion with respect to the filtration \( \left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}^{Z}\right\} \) .
Proof We will show that \( {N}_{t} \) is a continuous martingale with respect to the filtration \( \left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}^{Z}\right\} \) whose quadratic variation is \( t \), and then our result follows from Lévy’s theorem (Theorem 12.1). That \( {N}_{t} \) is continuous is obvious, and \( \langle N{\rangle }_{t} = ...
No
Lemma 29.4 If \( {Y}_{t} - {\int }_{0}^{t}{H}_{s}{ds} \) is a martingale with respect to \( \left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}^{X}\right\} \), then \( {\widehat{Y}}_{t} - {\int }_{0}^{t}{\widehat{H}}_{s}{ds} \) is a martingale with respect to \( \left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}^{Z}\right\} \) .
Proof Since \( {\mathcal{F}}_{s}^{Z} \subset {\mathcal{F}}_{s}^{X} \) ,\n\n\[ \mathbb{E}\left\lbrack {{\widehat{Y}}_{t} - {\widehat{Y}}_{s} - {\int }_{s}^{t}{\widehat{H}}_{r}{dr} \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{s}^{Z}}\right\rbrack \]\n\n\[ = \mathbb{E}\left\lbrack {\mathbb{E}\left\lbrack {{Y}_{t} \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{t}^{Z}}\right...
No
Theorem 29.5 Let \( {M}_{t} = f\left( {X}_{t}\right) - f\left( {X}_{0}\right) - {\int }_{0}^{t}{A}_{s}{ds} \) be a martingale with respect to \( \left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}^{X}\right\} \) and write \( {F}_{s} \) for \( f\left( {X}_{s}\right) \) . Suppose \( \langle M, W{\rangle }_{t} = {\int }_{0}^{t}{D}_{s}{ds} \) . The...
Proof By Lemma 29.4,\n\n\[{L}_{t} = {\widehat{F}}_{t} - {\widehat{F}}_{0} - {\int }_{0}^{t}{\widehat{A}}_{s}{ds}\]\n\n(29.7)\n\nis a martingale with respect to \( \left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}^{Z}\right\} \) and by Theorem 29.3, there exists \( {H}_{s} \) such that\n\n\[{L}_{t} = {\int }_{0}^{t}{H}_{s}d{N}_{s}\]\n\n(29.8)\...
Yes
Theorem 29.6 \( {V}_{t} \) solves the deterministic ordinary differential equation\n\n\[ \frac{d{V}_{t}}{dt} = 1 + {2B}{V}_{t} - {C}^{2}{V}_{t}^{2},\;{V}_{0} = \operatorname{Var}{X}_{0} \]
Proof of Theorem 29.6 By Itô’s formula, if \( f \in {C}^{2} \), \n\n\[ f\left( {X}_{t}\right) - f\left( {X}_{0}\right) = {\mathcal{F}}^{X}\text{-martingale } + {\int }_{0}^{t}\left\lbrack {\frac{1}{2}{f}^{\prime \prime }\left( {X}_{s}\right) + B{X}_{s}{f}^{\prime }\left( {X}_{s}\right) }\right\rbrack {ds}. \]\n\nBy the...
No
Theorem 30.4 If a sequence of probability measures on a metric space \( \mathcal{S} \) is tight, there is a subsequence that converges weakly to a probability measure on \( \mathcal{S} \) .
Proof Suppose first that the metric space \( \mathcal{S} \) is compact. Then \( C\left( \mathcal{S}\right) \), the collection of continuous functions on \( \mathcal{S} \), is a separable metric space when furnished with the supremum norm; this is Exercise 30.1. Let \( \left\{ {f}_{i}\right\} \) be a countable collectio...
No
Proposition 30.6 \( {d}_{\mathcal{M}} \) is a metric on \( \mathcal{M} \) .
Proof We start with symmetry, that is, that \( {d}_{\mathcal{M}}\left( {\mathbb{Q},\mathbb{P}}\right) = {d}_{\mathcal{M}}\left( {\mathbb{P},\mathbb{Q}}\right) \) . Let \( \alpha \) be any real number larger than \( {d}_{\mathcal{M}}\left( {P, Q}\right) \) . If \( H \) is closed, then \( {H}_{\alpha } = \{ x : d\left( {...
Yes
Theorem 32.1 Suppose the \( {X}_{n} \) are continuous real-valued processes. Suppose for each \( \varepsilon \) and \( \eta > 0 \) there exist \( {n}_{0}, A \), and \( \delta \) (depending on \( \varepsilon \) and \( \eta \) ) such that if \( n \geq {n}_{0} \), then\n\n\[ \mathbb{P}\left( {{\omega }_{{X}_{n}}\left( \de...
Proof Since each \( {X}_{i} \) is a continuous process, then for each \( i,\mathbb{P}\left( {{\omega }_{{X}_{i}}\left( \delta \right) \geq \varepsilon }\right) \rightarrow 0 \) as \( \delta \rightarrow 0 \) by dominated convergence. Hence, given \( \varepsilon \) and \( \eta \) we can, by taking \( \delta \) smaller if...
Yes
Example 33.2 Let's see what this expansion is in the case of Brownian motion. If we define\n\n\[ \langle f, g{\rangle }_{CM} = {\int }_{0}^{1}{f}^{\prime }\left( r\right) {g}^{\prime }\left( r\right) {dr} \]\n\n(33.5)\n\nfor \( f \) and \( g \) whose first derivatives are in \( {L}^{2}\left( \left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rb...
\[ \langle \Gamma \left( {s, \cdot }\right) ,\Gamma \left( {t, \cdot }\right) {\rangle }_{CM} = {\int }_{0}^{1}{1}_{\lbrack 0, s)}\left( r\right) {1}_{\lbrack 0, t)}\left( r\right) {dr} = s \land t \]\n\n\[ = \Gamma \left( {s, t}\right) \text{,} \]\n\nand we see that we have identified the reproducing kernel Hilbert sp...
Yes
In the case of Brownian motion, \( \operatorname{Var}\left( {{X}_{t} - {X}_{s}}\right) = \left| {t - s}\right| \), so that \( d\left( {s, t}\right) = \) \( {\left| s - t\right| }^{1/2} \) . If \( T \) is the interval \( \left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rbrack \), then the set of intervals of length \( {\varepsilon }^{2} \) and...
Therefore \( N\left( \varepsilon \right) \leq c/{\varepsilon }^{2} \) , implying \( \log N\left( \varepsilon \right) \leq c\log \left( {1/\varepsilon }\right) \), which satisfies (33.6). This and Theorem 2.4 gives a construction of Brownian motion.
Yes
Example 33.5 We look at fractional Brownian motion. Let \( H \in \left( {0,2}\right) .H \) is known as the Hurst index, where \( H = 1 \) corresponds to Brownian motion. Define\n\n\[ \Gamma \left( {s, t}\right) = {\left| s\right| }^{H} + {\left| t\right| }^{H} - {\left| s - t\right| }^{H}. \]\n\nThis leads to \( d\left...
Open intervals of length \( {\varepsilon }^{2/H} \) are \( \varepsilon \) -balls, and it takes \( c{\varepsilon }^{-2/H} \) of them to cover \( \left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rbrack \) . Therefore again \( N\left( \varepsilon \right) \leq c\log \left( {1/\varepsilon }\right) \), and (33.6) applies.
No
Example 33.6 Here is our first example of a Gaussian process where \( T \) is not a subset of \( \lbrack 0,\infty ) \) . We construct a Brownian sheet, \( X\left( {{t}_{1},{t}_{2}}\right) \), where the points \( \left( {{t}_{1},{t}_{2}}\right) \in {\left\lbrack 0,1\right\rbrack }^{2} \) . More generally we can consider...
One motivation for this formula is to identify the point \( \left( {{t}_{1},{t}_{2}}\right) \) with the rectangle \( {R}_{t} \) whose lower left corner is at the origin and whose upper right corner is at \( \left( {{t}_{1},{t}_{2}}\right) \) . Then the covariance of \( {X}_{s} \) and \( {X}_{t} \) is the area of \( {R}...
Yes