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Structure of martingale transports in finite dimensions

Probability 2017-02-28 v1

Abstract

We study the structure of martingale transports in finite dimensions. We consider the family M(μ,ν)\mathcal{M}(\mu,\nu) of martingale measures on RN×RN\mathbb{R}^N \times \mathbb{R}^N with given marginals μ,ν\mu,\nu, and construct a family of relatively open convex sets {Cx:xRN}\{C_x:x\in \mathbb{R}^N \}, which forms a partition of RN\mathbb{R}^N, and such that any martingale transport in M(μ,ν)\mathcal{M}(\mu,\nu) sends mass from xx to within Cx\overline{C_x}, μ(dx)\mu(dx)--a.e. Our results extend the analogous one-dimensional results of M. Beiglb\"ock and N. Juillet (2016) and M. Beiglb\"ock, M. Nutz, and N. Touzi (2015). We conjecture that the decomposition is canonical and minimal in the sense that it allows to characterise the martingale polar sets, i.e. the sets which have zero mass under all measures in M(μ,ν)\mathcal{M}(\mu,\nu), and offers the martingale analogue of the characterisation of transport polar sets proved in M. Beiglb\"ock, M. Goldstern, G. Maresch, and W. Schachermayer (2009).

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@article{arxiv.1702.08433,
  title  = {Structure of martingale transports in finite dimensions},
  author = {Jan Obłój and Pietro Siorpaes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.08433},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

This work is made publicly available simultaneously to, and in mutual recognition, to a parallel and independent work H. De March and N. Touzi (2017) which studies the same questions. In due course, we plan to release an amended version proving the conjectured minimality of our convex partition