English

Conditioned Martingales

Probability 2012-10-10 v2

Abstract

It is well known that upward conditioned Brownian motion is a three-dimensional Bessel process, and that a downward conditioned Bessel process is a Brownian motion. We give a simple proof for this result, which generalizes to any continuous local martingale and clarifies the role of finite versus infinite time in this setting. As a consequence, we can describe the law of regular diffusions that are conditioned upward or downward.

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@article{arxiv.1203.2587,
  title  = {Conditioned Martingales},
  author = {Nicolas Perkowski and Johannes Ruf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.2587},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

Corrected several typos, improved formulations. Accepted by Electronic Communications in Probability; Electronic Communications in Probability, 2012, Volume 17, Issue 48

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