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Non-Markovianity of $2K-B$ and a degeneration

Probability 2026-04-15 v2

Abstract

We study the process of 2KB2K-B, where BB is a standard one-dimensional Brownian motion and KK is its concave majorant. In light of Pitman's 2MB2M-B theorem, it was recently conjectured by Ouaki and Pitman \cite{OP} that 2KB2K-B has the law of the BES(5) process. The two processes share properties such as Brownian scaling, time inversion and quadratic variation, and the same one point distribution and infinitesimal generator, among many other evidences; and it remains to prove that 2KB2K-B is Markovian. However, we show that this conjecture is false. To better understand the similarity between these two processes, we study a degeneration of 2KB2K-B. We show it is a mixture of BES(3), and get other properties including multiple points distribution, infinitesimal generator, and path decomposition at future infimum. We also further investigate the Markovian structure and the filtrations of 2KB,B2K-B, B and KK.

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@article{arxiv.2410.04051,
  title  = {Non-Markovianity of $2K-B$ and a degeneration},
  author = {Yang Chu and Lingfu Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.04051},
  year   = {2026}
}

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24 pages, 5 figures