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A Constructive Brownian Limit Theorem

Probability 2022-03-22 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

In this paper, we present and prove a boundary limit theorem for Brownian motions for the Hardy space hp\mathbf{h}^{p} of harmonic functions on the unit ball in RmR^m, where p1p\geq1 and m2m\geq2 are arbitrary. Our proof is constructive in the sense of [Bishop and Bridges 1985, Chan 2021, Chan 2022]. Roughly speaking, a mathematical proof is constructive if it can be compiled into some computer code with the guarantee of exit in a finite number of steps on execution. A constructive proof of said boundary limit theorem is contained in [Durret 1984] for the case of p>1p>1. In this article, we give a constructive proof for p=1p=1, which then implies, via the Lyapunov's inequality, a constructive proof for the general case p1p\geq1. We conjecture that the result can be used to give a constructive proof of the nontangential limit theorem for Hardy spaces hp\mathbf{h}^{p} with p1p\geq1. We note that, ca 1970, R. Getoor gave a talk on the Brownian limit theorem at the University of Washington. We believe that the proof he presented is constructive only for the case p>1p>1 and not for the case p=1p=1. We are however unable to find a reference for his proof.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2203.10687,
  title  = {A Constructive Brownian Limit Theorem},
  author = {Yuen-Kwok Chan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.10687},
  year   = {2022}
}

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48 pages

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