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Stochastic Integrals Proceedings of the LMS Durham Symposium, July 7 - 17, 1980

Edited by D. Williams

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PREFACE

0

1 •

There are many people and organisations to thank, including:

The London Mathematical Society;

and especially Heini Halberstam, John Williamson,

and Tom Willmore, for 'pre-natal' care on behalf of LMS; The Science Research Council, for generous financial support;

and especially

John Kingman, SRC assessor for this symposium, for his interest and sound advice; The Durham Mathematics Department;

and especially Tom Willmore, Peter Green, and

of course, Ed. Corrigan; Grey College, myoId home, for its usual warm hospitality;

Paul-Andre Meyer, for several valuable suggestions; My wife Sheila, and her father, the late great Edward Harrison, for a lot of work and for unlimited patience; Robert Elliott, my co-organiser, for effective troubleshooting in some moments of minor crisis, and for much helpfulness throughout two years; And Chris Rogers and Margaret Brook, whose very hard work somehow defeated my determined efforts to surpass Haydn, Wiener, and

in achieving a representation

of chaos.

But, above all, thanks are due to all participants:

for a marvellous time;

for fine mathematics; and, no less importantly, for fun and friendship.

2

0



The three introductory articles - by Elliott, Rogers, and myself -

are intended to help make some of the later material accessible to a wider audience. At the symposium, there was much interest in the Malliavin calculus. My introductory effort is intended to provide some background material for this topic and for related topics.

David Williams

PARTICIPANTS (WITH ADDRESSES) Convention: CAMBRIDGE = Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics; University of Cambridge; 16 Mill Lane; CAMBRIDGE CB2 1SB; England. HULL = The University of HUll; 22 Newland Park; Cottingham Road; HULL HU6 2DW; England. PARIS VI = Laboratoire de calcul des probabilites; Universite de Paris VI; 4, place Jussieu, Tour 56; 75230, PARIS Cedex 05; France. STRASBOURG = Departement de Mathematique; Universite Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg; 7, rue Rene Descartes; 67084 STRASBOURG, France. SWANSEA = University College of Swansea; Singleton Park; SWANSEA SA2 8PP; Wales. United Kingdom.

L. ACCARDI; Istituto Matematico Federico Enriques; Universita di Milano; Via L. Cicognara; 20129 MILANO, Italy. S. ALBEVERIO; Institut fUr Mathematik; GebKude NA; UniversitKtsstr.150; Postfach 2148; 463 BOCHUM; W. Germany. D.J. ALDOUS; Department of Statistics; University of California; BERKELEY; California 94720, U.S.A .. A.N. AL-HUSSAINI; Department of Mathematics; The University of Alberta; EDMONTON T6G 2G1; Canada. J. AZEMA;

PARIS VI.

A.J. BADDELEY; A. BARBOUR;

CAMBRIDGE.

M.T. BARLOW; T. BARTH;

CAMBRIDGE.

LIVERPOOL - now at CAMBRIDGE.

Department of Pure Mathematics; HULL.

J.A. BATHER; School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences; The University of Sussex; Falmer; BRIGHTON BN19QH; England. P. BAXENDALE; Department of Mathematics; King's College; University of Aberdeen; High Street, ABERDEEN AB9 2UB; Scotland, United Kingdom. D. BELL;

Department of Pure Mathematics; HULL.

K. BICHTELER; Department of Mathematics; University of Texas at Austin; AUSTIN; Texas 78712; U.S.A. N.H. BINGHAM; Department of Mathematics; Westfield College; Kidderpore Avenue; LONDON NW3 7ST; England. J.M. BISMUT; Departement de Mathematique; Universite de Paris-Sud; ORSAY 91405; Paris, France.

v T.C. BROWN; School of Mathematics; University of Bath; Claverton Down; BATH BA2 7AY; England. T.K. CARNE;

CAMBRIDGE.

Mireille CHALEYAT-MAUREL;

PARIS VI.

L. CHEVALIER; Laboratoire de Mathematiques Pures; Institut Fourier, Universite de Grenoble; B.P. 116-38402 Saint Martin GRENOBLE, France. J.M.C. CLARK; Department of Computing and Control; Imperial College; 180 Queen's Gate; LONDON SW7 2BZ; England. R.W.R. DARLING; England.

Mathematics Institute; University of WARWICK; COVENTRY CV4 7AL;

A.M. DAVIE; Department of Mathematics; University of Edinburgh; James Clarke Maxwell Building; The King's Buildings; Mayfield Road; EDINBURGH EH9 3JZ; Scotland, U.K. M.H.A. DAVIS; Department of Computing and Control; Imperial College, 180 Queen's Gate; LONDON SW7 2BZ; England. C. DELLACHERIE; Department de Mathematique; Universite de ROUEN; B.P. No. 67; 76130 MONT-SAINT-AIGNAN; Rouen; France. R.A. DONEY; The Manchester-Sheffield School of Probability and Statistics; Statistical Laboratory; Department of Mathematics; The University, MANCH8STER M13 9PL; England. H. DOSS;

PARIS VI.

E.B. DYNKIN; Department of Mathematics; CORNELL University; White Hall, Ithaca; NEW YORK 14853; U.S.A. D.A. EDWARDS; Mathematical Institute; University of Oxford; 24-29 St. Giles; OXFORD OX1 3LB; England. R.J. ELLIOTT;

Department of Pure Mathematics; HULL.

K.D. ELWORTHY; England. P. EMBRECHTS; Belgium. M. EMERY; H. FOLLMER;

Mathematical Institute; University of WARWICK; COVENTRY CV4 7AL; Departement Wiskunde KUL; Celestijnenlaan 200-B;

B-3030 HEVERLEE,

STRASBOURG. Mathematik; ETH-Zentrum; CH-8092 ZURICH; Switzerland.

M. FUKUSHIMA; College of General Education; Osaka University; 1-1 Machikanayamacho; Toyonaka-shi; OSAKA 560; Japan. D.J.H. GARLING;

CAMBRIDGE.

G.R. GRIMMETT; School of Mathematics; University of Bristol; University Walk; BRISTOL BS8 1TW.

VI B. HAJEK; Coordinated Science Laboratory; College of Engineering; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; URBANA, Illinois 61801; U.S.A. J.M. HAMMERSLEY; Institute of Economics and Statistics; University of Oxford; St. Cross Building; Manor Road; OXFORD OX1 3UL; England. J. HAWKES;

Department of Statistics; SWANSEA.

R. HOLLEY; Department of Mathematics; University of Colorado; Boulder; COLORADO 80309; U.S.A. M. JACOBSEN, Institute of Mathematical Statistics; University of Copenhagen; 5 Universitetsparken, DK-2100, COPENHAGEN Denmark.

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J. JACOD: Laboratoire de Probabilites (C.N.R.S.), Universite de Rennes; Avenue du General Leclerc; Rennes Beaulieu, 35042 RENNES Cedex; France. T. JEULIN;

PARIS VI.

K. JANSSEN;

DUSSELDORF.

KARKYACHARIAN;

Universite de NANCY; France.

D.G. KENDALL;

CAMBRIDGE.

W.S. KENDALL,

Department of Mathematical Statistics, HULL.

H. KESTEN, Department of Mathematics; White Hall; CORNELL University; Ithaca; NEW YORK 14853, U.S.A. P.E. KOPP;

Department of Pure Mathematics; HULL.

P. KOTELENEZ; Forschungsschwerpunkt Dynamische Systeme; Bremen, Bibliothekstrasse, Postfach 330440; 2800 BREMEN 33; West Germany. H. KUNITA; Department of Applied Science; Faculty of Engineering; KYUSHU University; Hakozaki; FUKUOKA 812; Japan. A. KUSSMAUL, Mathematisches Institut der 10; 7400 TUBINGEN 1; West Germany.

TUbingen- Auf der Morgenstelle

E. LENGLART; Departement de Mathematique; Universite de ROUEN; B.P. no.67; 76130 MONT-SAINT-AIGNAN; Rouen, France. J.T. LEWIS; School of Theoretical Physics; Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies; . 10, Burlington Road; DUBLIN 4; Eire. T. LYONS; Mathematical Institute; University of Oxford; 24-29 St. Giles; OXFORD OX1 3LB; England. P. MALLIAVIN; Departement de Mathematique; Universite de Paris VI, 4 place Jussieu, Tour 56; 75230 PARIS Cedex 05; France. P. McGILL; Department of Mathematics; University of Ulster; Northern Ireland; U.K.

COLERAINE;

VII

P.A. MEYER;

STRASBOURG.

S. MOHAMMED; J. NEVEU;

School of Mathematical Sciences, University of KHARTOUM, Sudan.

PARIS VI.

F. PAPANGELOU; The Manchester-Sheffield School of Probability and Statistics; Statistical Laboratory; Department of Mathematics; The University; MANCHESTER M13 9PL; England. J. PELLAUMAIL; France.

I.N.S.A.; 20 Avenue des Buttes de

B.P. l4A; 35031 RENNES;

M. PINSKY; Department of Mathematics; College of Arts and Sciences; NORTHWESTERN University; Evanston; ILLINIOS 60201; U.S.A. G.C. PRICE;

Department of Pure Mathematics; SWANSEA.

P. PROTTER; Department of Mathematics and Statistics; Lafayette; IND 47907; U.S.A.

PURDUE University;

B. RIPLEY; Department of Mathematics; Huxley Building; Imperial College; Huxley Building; Imperial College; 180 Queen's Gate; LONDON SW7 2BZ; England. L.C.G. ROGERS; SWANSEA - now at Department of Statistics; University of WARWICK; COVENTRY CV4 7AL; England. M.J. SHARPE; Department of Mathematics; University of California, SAN DIEGO; P.O.Box 109; LA JOLLA, California 92093; U.S.A. R.F. STREATER; Department of Mathematics; Bedford College; University of London; Regents Park; LONDON NWl 4NS; England. C. STRICKER;

STRASBOURG.

D.W. STROOCK, Department of Mathematics; University of Colorado; Boulder; COLORADO 80309; U.S.A. J.C. TAYLOR; Department of Mathematics; Burnside Hall; 805 Sherbrooke Street West; MONTREAL PQ; Canada H3A 2K6. L.C. THOMAS; Department of Decision Theory; University of Manchester; MANCHESTER Ml3 9PL; England. G. VINCENT-SMITH; Mathematical Institute; University of Oxford; 24-29 St Giles; OXFORD OXI 3LB; England. J.B. WALSH; Department of Mathematics; University of BRITISH COLUMBIA; 2075 Westbrook Hall; VANCOUVER, B.C. V6T IW5; Canada. S. WATANABE; Department of Mathematics; Faculty of Science; Kyoto University; KYOTO; Japan. J. WATKINS;

Free University of BERLIN.

VIII

D. WILLIAMS;

Department of Pure Mathematics; SWANSEA.

T.J. WILLMORE; Department of Mathematics, University of Durham, Science Laboratories; South Road, DURHAM DHI 3LE. E. WONG; Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; University of California, BERKELEY, California 94720; U.S.A. M. YOR;

PARIS VI.

M. ZAKAI; Department of Electrical Engineering; TECHNION-Israel Institute of Technology; TECHNION CITY; HAIFA 32000; Israel.

CONTENTS

Introductory articles David Williams: L.C.G. ROGERS:

1

"To begin at the beginning: Stochastic integrals:

Robert J. ELLIOTT:

56

basic theory

Stochastic integration and discontinuous martingales

72

Papers based on main talks and courses Sergio ALBEVERIO and Raphael H@EGH-KROHN: Some Markov processes and Markov 497 fields in quantum theory, group theory, hydrodynamics, and (late entry) C·-algebras Jean-Michel BISMUT: theorem

Martingales, the Malliavin calculus, and Htlrmander's

85

M. FUKUSHIMA: On a representation of local martingale additive functionals of symmetric diffusions

110

Bruce HAJEK and Eugene WONG: stochastic integration

Set-parametered martingales and multiple

119

R. HOLLEY and D. STROOCK: Generalised Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes as limits of interacting systems

152

Jean JACOD and Jean MEMIN: Weak and strong solutions of stochastic differential equations: Existence and stability

169

Hiroshi KUNITA: On the decomposition of solutions of stochastic differential equations

213

P.A. MEYER:

"

A differential geometric formalism for the Ito calculus

Mark A. PINSKY:

Homogenization and stochastic parallel displacement

Jim PITMAN and Marc YOR: R.F. STREATER:

Bessel processes and infinitely divisible laws

Euclidean quantum mechanics and stochastic integrals

Daniel W. STROOCK:

The Malliavin calculus and its applications

Y. TAKAHASHI and S. WATANABE: The probability functionals (OnsagerMachlup functions) of diffusion processes

256 271

285 371

394 433

Papers based on splinter-group talks Ata AL-HUSSAINI and Robert J. ELLIOTT: two parameter processes L. CHEVALIER: H. FOLLMER: W.S. KENDALL:

"

Ito and Girsanov formulae for

LP-inequalities for two-parameter martingales Dirichlet processes Brownian motion, negative curvature, and harmonic maps

464 470 476 479

P. KOTELENEZ: Local behaviour of Hilbert space valued stochastic integrals, 492 and the continuity of mild solutions of stochastic evolution equations

"TO BEGIN AT THE BEGINNING: by David Williams

Some readers may be helped by this more-or-less self-contained introduction to some important concepts: stochastic integrals;

continuous semimartingales and the associated

the Stroock-Varadhan theorem and its consequences for

martingale representation;

and, as a main theme,

the Girsanov theorem;

the modern theory of the Kolmogorov forward (or Fokker-Planck) equation, involving hypoellipticity and all that, Comments on notation and terminology. to be equal to', differentiable

, ,

-

The symbol

signifies 'is defined

By a smooth function we shall always mean an infinitely function.

We use

to denote the space of smooth

functions of compact support. The summation convention is used throughout the paper, so that, for example, in equation (1.3), it is understood that the first term on the right-hand side is summed over the (repeated) indices summed over

1.

i

and

j,

while the last term is

Note especially:

A brief Appendix at the end of this paper collects some information about Schwartz distributions and hypoelliptic operators,

Part I,

Fifty years of the forward equation,

I think it best to start by trying to motivate things via this account of various approaches to diffusion theory even though it means speaking of certain concepts before recalling their definitions.

KOLMOGOROV (1931),

mn is a path-continuous process and

*

Roughly speaking, a diffusion process 1 ,X 2 ,.,.,X n) X = (X

such that for

X t

h > 0, The 'one up, one down' convention does not work well for transposes:

on 0

2

( 1.1)

for some functions some functions

a

b

ij

Note that for each

i

(1

(1 x

i

n)

n)

i, j in

m,n

on on

called 'drift coefficients', and n

m

the matrix

[Let me mention one technical difficulty:

called 'diffusion coefficients'. a(x)

I have stated (1.1), the integrals

as

determining the expectations could blow up;

is positive semi-definite.

I skip this

so we need to truncate.

now because it is subsumed and superceded via the later use of

martingales.]

Various heuristic arguments (turned into precise proofs and theorems below) suggest that, under suitable conditions, a transition density function

p[X where

p

u+t

Pt(x,y):

E dYlx :s < u; X s

X must be a Markov process possessing

-

u

= x]

satisfies the Kolmogorov backward and forward equations now to be

described.

Let

9

be the operator defined as follows:

(9f)(x) If, for example, the functions in

a

ij

and

i

are smooth, then for

we have

J

h(x)(gf)(x)dx

mn

where

b

J

f(x)(9*h)(x)dx,

nt

is the adjoint operator with

Then the Kolmogorov backward and forward equations take the form:

(B) (F)

f

and

h

3

9

The subscripts on

these operators act; saying that

p

9*

and

x

are meant to indicate the variables in which

y

but it is neater to speak of the forward equation by

P.(x,.)

satisfies

(F) (As usual,

P.(x,.)

is the function

(t,y)

Pt(x,y).)

The early work of Kolmogorov, Feller, and others used partial-differentialequation (POE) theory to establish (under suitable conditions) the existence of a Markov transition density function of

p

satisfying

X, as a process 'proper' carried by some

(B)

(O,d,P),

and (F);

the existence

could then be deduced from

the Kolmogorov-Daniell theorem supplemented by Kolmogorov's criterion for path continuity.

STROOCK-VARADHAN

(1969).

We jump on to the Stroock-Varadhan approach

because it exactly captures the spirit of

(1.1).

The point is that

(1.1)

may be

formulated precisely as follows:

X1.

_

X1.

-

Jt b i (X )ds s

too

defines a local martingale

(2.1) t a i j ( x )dS s Jo The (generalised)

is a local martingale,

formula implies that the conditions

(2.1)

are exactly

equivalent to the following statement:

(SV)

f(X ) - f(X ) - Jt(9f)(X )ds

too

s

defines a martingale

Stroock and Varadhan make (SV) the defining condition for a diffusion process.

One advantage is clear:

if

9

is a second-order elliptic operator

on a manifold, then (SV) makes perfect sense as a condition on a process values in the manifold.

X

f

C •

with

4

Let us be more speci fic about the Stroock·-Yaradhan approach. the manifold in

n

m.

n

Il

We now insist that

Thus, let

of subsets of

w S

Fix

x E m

n•

C

f

x

w

[0,(0)

from

the smallest G-algebra

X (w) s

measurable all maps

s

with

t;

00].

Let

a probability measure starting from

Define

which makes

A = G!X :s
0 T (4.1) J0 5 (x) > < ",* s (x ) ds = C(w

(cp*

is a positive definite form on Tx (Rd). Proofl This result is an extension etMalliavin • Let Us be the vector space in Tx(R d) spanned by -lXi (x)} 10;; io;; m and Vs

{cp'\

be the vector space

(4.2)

u (U t) to;; s

Vs

We now define (4-3)

v:

v:

by

n Vi; t>s

By the zero-one law, we know that depending on

w. Assume that

v+o I

is a.s. a fixed space not Tx (R d). If

T is

the stopping

96

time

*

a. s. T is> 0 • Let f be a non zero element in T (R d ) orthogonal x ,.J to On [0,':eI , we have (4.5)

) -

E(.b(C( w »f(CfJ T(w ,

v li)

dSCfJ"'s-lXj.
s i T ' v J

< C-l(w )cp'" -ly 'PO!.

ds+

J0

• dv +

-lX.;:pO!. -1 X.] J' s

s

[cp"'v-1Xj'

fo

T

ds(

J0

s

0)

Proof: (4412) is a consequence of Theorem 3.1 and of the Remark which follows this Theorem. In fact, as noted in this Remark, it is feasible to take h in (303) to be (4.13) h

= b(C(w

»

C-l(w )cp\-ly

98

To compute the r.h.s. of (3.3), assume for the moment that Xo ••• Xm have compact support. Borel and bounded defined on [ O,T J with values in Rm, consider the stochastic differential equation

= Xo(x) x(O) = x

(4.14)

dx

dt + Xi(x) (dwi +

and the associated dy

equation (1.5)

= ( E So g(Yt)dt has a density oa Rd+P • Now (5.27) E

So

T

g(; t( w,(x,O») dt = E

J0

+CXl

2

1 s t s;T gv (Yt)dt

so that the measure (5.27) has a density. Since

riP

1>( w,{x,O»

"" Cfl trW ,x), the result is proved.

Remark:The detailed proof may be found in



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conditions. To appear.

ON A REPRESENTATION OF LOCAL MARTINGALE ADDITIVE FUNCTIONALS OF SYMMETRIC DIFFUSIONS M. Fukushima ;( College of General Education Osaka University Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan

§ 1 Introduction

In studying the absolute continuity of diffusions with respect to Brownian motion, a very important role is played by the following representation of the positive continuous local martingale multiplicative functional L of the t

Brownian motion (Wentzell [7]): d L

t = exp {

t

L oJ L(X)dB s s

i=l

-

1

2"

d

t

I 0J r.rx s )

i=l

2

ds},

where f. are measurable functions with P

t

x

oo We say that an AF (n )

sequence M

E

.

o.n

M is locally in ..

llt,

if there exist a nest {K and a n}

n=1,2, ... , such that

( 2 . 3) PX ( Mt =M(n) t ' Vt

(3.8)

l(f,A) =

Proof:

1 +

1

L

m! [f (·)l(f,S.)

m=l

0

m WJA

For multiple Wiener integrals (C = {all closed sets )}(3.8)

reduces to

(3.9)

l(f,A} = 1 +

I

m=l m.

which is well known [5J.

For the general case, we use (3.6) in (3.9)

and write L(f,A)

=1

ex>

+

L

W(f,A) m

m

L

m=l m. k=l

135

=1 + =1+

1

L kT

co

k=l' co

1

"k

[f

L

co

1

W.(f.S.) j=OJ· J

"k

k

0

W]A

k

L --k' [f L(f.S.)

0

k=l .

W]A

The expansion formula (3.8) for exponentials of the form (3.7) can be extended with the Wiener integral f by a stochastic integral f Proposition 3.2.

0

W.

0

Win the exponent being replaced

The result can be stated as follows:

Equation (3.8) remains valid for f E

such

that f is bounded. Proof:

Define f to be a discrete simple function if f is a simple

function

such that P(aiEJ) = 1 for some finite set J. written as f(t.w) g(t.c) = Then g(·.c)

(3.10)

E

k

I

i=l

Such a function may be

= g(t.a(w)) where a = (a 1 •..•• a k ) and c.I A (t) for c E JK. 1 i

L2(T) for each c

L(g(' .cLA)

1 +

E

Jk so by Corollary 3 of Theorem 3.1.

21 m! [g (·.c)L(g(·.cLs.) 00

1

0

m W ]A'

This equality holds in L2(n.F.p) for each c E JK and hence it continues to hold in L2(n.F.p) if c is replaced by the random vector a(w). By proposition C in appendix C. replacing c by a(w) in the stochastic integrals is equivalent to replacing c by new) in each of the integrands

136

and then forming the stochastic integrals.

(To apply propositon C to

term on the right of (3.10), let Bi = SA.)' 1 equation (3.8) if f is a discrete simple function. the

This verifies

Conclude that E[L(f,A)] = 1 if f is discrete and simple. if p

1 and If(',')1

l(f,A)P

= L(pf,A)

Moreover,

r for some constant r , then exp(t(p2_ p

)! f(t)2 dt)

l(pf,A) so that

(3.11) Now choose any f E La2(Txn) with If(w,t)1 -< r. Then there is a sequence of discrete simple functions f. f in L2(Txn) such that J a Ifj{w,t)! r for each j. Hence (fjoW)A (foW)A a.s. in L2(n) so that taking a subsequence if necessary, we can assume that (fjoW)A with probability one.

Thus L(fj,A)

(foW)A

L(f,A) with probability one.

the estimate (3.11), the collection of random variables {L(f.,A)P:p J

is uniformly integrable for each p l P(n) for each p > 1.

Moreover, T.

>

-

1 so that L(f.,A) J

By > -

l}

L(f,A) in

in LP(T An) for each P > 1 a since these functions are uniformly bounded. Now (3.8) is true for f J

T

replaced by f j, and it is then easily verified for f by taking the limit in L2(n) term by term as j +00. n 4.

A likelihood Ratio Formula let {Zt,t E T} be a bounded process defined on (n,F,p) and let

{W(A) , ACT} be a Wiener process defined on the same space.

= o({W(B), B C A}, {Zt' tEA}). We assume AnA' = ¢ -WeA') in F(A)-independent. For any F(A)

let

that collection C the support

137

St contains t.

Hence, Zt is F(St) measurable.

For any C satisfying

c l - c 3' the stochastic integral Z 0 Wis well-defined. Now, let P' be a measure on (n,F) defined by: dP' = exp{Z --dP

(4.1)

0

W- -21 Z2

and set

For any C satisfying cl - c 3 ' proposition 3.2 yields (4.3)

It follows that L(Z,A) = E(

(4.4)

F(A))

and pI is a probability measure. Next, let FW(A)

=

a({W(B),BCA}), and define the likelihood ratio

by (4.5)

A(A) =

I FW(A))

We shall use (4.3) to derive an expression for A(A). Proposition 4.1.

(4.6)

Z (t) m

Let tErm and define

= E'(Z(t l)Z(t2)··Z(t )IFW(St t m

Then the likelihood ratio is given by

t))

1 2'" m

138

A(A)

(4.7)

Proof:

=1 +

I

m=l m.

[Zm(')A(S . )

0

wm]

We begin by writing

and using (4.3).

Observe that with P-measure 1,

= E[Z(tl)Z(t2)···Z(tm)L(Z,Stlt2··tm)IFw(A)] =

E[Z(t l)Z(t 2)···Z(t )l(Z,St t t )!FW(St t t)] m 1 2'· m 1 2'· m

=

A(St t )E'[Z(tl)···Z(t )!FW(St t)] l"m m l"'m

and (4.7) follows.

n

Two special cases are of particular interest. a fixed unit vector (i.e., DaD {t ERn: (t ,«)

>

-

a}.

First, let a

E

lR n be

= 1) and let Ha denote the half space

Then, the collection C = {H () T} is a one-

parameter family of sets such that

rm

a

is vacuous for m > 1.

That is,

two or more points are always C-dependent. In this case the likelihood ratio formula reduces to A(A) = 1 + [Zl(·)A(S.)

0

W]A

AE C

139

and an application of (3.8) yields

(4.8) where

In this case we see that the likelihood ratio is expressible as an exponential of the conditional mean. The second case of special interest results from taking C = {all closed sets in T}.

For this case

St t t = {t l,t 2,···,t } 1 2··· m m Hence, with P-measure 1

and

-Zm(t) = E' Z(tl) ••• Z(tm)]

Furthermore, if we assume that Z and Ware independent processes under P then Z is identically distributed under P'. can write

{4.9}

A(A)

=1 +

I

m=l m:

where pm is the -mth moment (4.l0)

(p

0

m

\fI)A

Hence, for that case we

140

Equation (4.9) provides a martingale representation of the likelihood ratio for the "additive white Gaussian noise" model under very general conditions.

In the one-dimensional case, it was recently obtained in

[7]. Equation (4.7) is an integral equation in that A occurs on both sides.

In special cases [2,6,9J the equation can be converted to yield

an exponential formula for A in terms of conditional moments.

141

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142

Appendix A:

Proof that Simple Functions are Dense

The purpose of this appendix is to prove the following proposition: Proposition A.

Conditions c 2 and c3 imply that the space of simple functions is dense in L2(rmxn) for each m > 1. a

-

Proof:

We begin by introducing some additional notation. t = (tl ••.•• t m) E Tm• define the -support of t by

For

>

0 and

where B( .t i) denotes a ball with radius and center tis and define Define LZ(rmxn) the same way as but with St(-) = U £>0

condition hZ replaced by the stronger condition: for each Am Am t E T • ¢t is Finally. let CE(T xn) be the subspace of L2(rmxn) consisting of ¢ E LZ(rmxn) such that ¢(·.w) is continuous on E

rm with

probability one.

Proposition A is a consequence of the following sequence of lemmas.

lemma A.l. Proof:

U l2(rmxn) is dense in

£>0

Let f E

under conditions c2 and c3,

E

be bounded by a constant r

>

O. For any E > O.

there is a Borel measurable mapping u(,.£) of the open set rm into a finite subset of rm such that

-


0 £ the bounded functions in are dense in the lemma is

(T

established. Lemma A.2.

tI

144

Proof:

Let f E

be bounded by some constant r > O.

such that V

VE

0, V(x) : 0 if Ixl

1, and

Choose

f V(x)dx: 1.

mn

For a > 0, define Va E by Vo(x) : and define a function f O on Trn by the convolution: fO(-,w): VO*f(',w) for each fixed w.

rn

C

r"

C

Here the function f(· ,w), which is a priori defined on (IRn)m,;;; IR mn, is extended to a function on all of IR mn by

the convention

: 0 if

Trn.

Note that fO is bounded by rand

sample continuous, and since V(x) : 0 for Ixl

0, fO E C

2E_ O(Trnxn).

Observe that If-foU 2: E[

f If(s) - fO(s)1 2 ds]

Tn
1. Proof:

Consider the following two conditions on C:

(bl)

There is a countable subcollection of 1m which covers Tm a.e.

(b2)

There is a countable subcollection which covers

of disjoint sets in 1m

rID a.e.

By a sequence of lemmas it is shown below that conditions c2 and c3

condition bl

condition b2

the conclusion of Proposition B.

Lemma B.1. m U

U

1=1 TIEP(m) Proof:

2

Let

= (Pl.···Pm)

E E ,

E (Sx)

-

m.

= (ql, •.• ,qm) E T

}

=I

(*)

Choose a permutation

= rr(ql.···.qm) so that for some 1 with 1

1

m,

147

where "P." denotes that p. is to be omitted. 1

1

That is. the permutation

is choosen so that Pl •...• Pi is a minimal set from ql •...•qm with the same support as Pl •...• Pm. ql····qmESn=s

Now Pn+l' ...• P E S m

N

Pl •... •Pi

since

p

Pl •... • To show that R is contained in the left side of (*). it remains to .:L

show that Pl •...• Pi are C-independent.

Now. if Pl •...• Pi were not

then p.E S P for some i. 1 Pl.···.Pi.···. i {AEC: Pl' ...• P E A}

Then

{AEC: Pl •...• Pi' ...• PiEAl.

Intersecting all the sets contained in this collection of sets yields that

s

Pl'·· .• Pi

=

s

Pl •... 'P i •...• Pi

which contradicts our choice of Pl •...• Pi.

Thus Pl •...• Pi are

C-independent so that R. and hence R. is contained in the left side of (*) •

Lemma B.2. Conditions c2 and c 3 imply Condition bl. Proof:

Let

m denote the -subsets of T of the form Alx ... xAm such that.

for some IT E P(m) and some t > O. a)

An ••..•An are C-independent. closed rectangles whose vertices t

have rational coordinates in T C lR n. and

0 is a countable subset of rand Then 1m m

148

m

"9.,

-

m -

U

m 9.,

°{( X,y) : XE T , YE (S ) - }

= U U II R.= 1 IIEP(m)

U

R.=l IIEP(m)

(B.1)

-

IIoS

m,9.,

where

The first term on the right hand side of (B.l) is equal to Tm by lemma B.l. pm(Sm,R.)

Thus, to complete the proof it must be shown that

= 0 for all m

1

and 1 < ! < m.

By Condition c2,

is a closed subset of 19.,

Tm-9., which increases as

decreases to zero. Since S • = FO - U F, it follows that S • is a Borel subset of Tm. m,.. c m,.. By Condition c3, the section

of Sm,! at

has lebesgue measure zero for a.e. y E

Fubini's theorem, jJm(S lemma B.3.

X

m,...) = 0 for

- m.

1 < R.
1 cover Tm a.e .. We claim that for each i > 1 there is a finite collection of disjoint ni sets Di" ... ,D'n in I such that D. = U D... Condition b is then 1 i 1 j=l 1J m satisfied with = {D .. :i > 1,1 < j < n.}. It remains to prove the I

1J

-

-

-

1

claim. By induction, it suffices to establish the cliam for i = 2. .

Fl = Alx ... xA for some Borel sets Al, ...•A CT. Thus, F' m m j=l where Kl •... ,Kr are disjoint and each Kj is the product of m Borel subsets of T.

In fact,

Now

r = U K,

J

is the union of all sets of the form

B1x..• xBm such that B.1 = A.1 or B. = for each i and such that B. = '1 k 11 for at least one i, and these sets are disjoint.

So D2 = .U K. n F2. J=l J The sets Kj n F2. The sets Kj n F2 are disjoint sets in 1m as a required so the claim is established. Lel11l1a 8.4.

Condition b2 implies that the linear span of {lA:AE 1m} is dense in L2(Tm). Flx... xF m where each Fi for any A E 1m and by Condition b2,

Proof:

Let F

IF =

L

d AE1m

lAnF

E

Rn(T). Then A n F E 1m

m. a.e. in T

Since the linear span of functions of the form IF is dense in L2(Tm), the lel11l1a is established.

150

Appendix C Proposition C.

Assume Conditions cl - c3. Let Bl, ... ,Bk be closed subsets of T and suppose that ai(w) is an F(B i) measurable random variable with values in a finite set J for 1 < i < k. Suppose for each C E Jk that h(""c) E h(t,·,c) whenever c i and

and that

= h(t,·,c') a.s.

= ci for all i such that Bi

St.

h(·,·,a(·))ow'" = h(·,·,c)oWml c-a _ () .

Then h(·,·,a(·)) E La(T xn)

a.s.

For each e E {O,l}k, define

Proof:

By condition c2' the set {t:BCS t} is open for each i so that is Borel for each e. Since U = Tm it suffices to prove the lemma when

e

h(t,·,c) for all t.c. and e. = 0 for 1

first

= h(t •.

-

where h(t.w,c) Thus,

Te

Now, for definiteness, suppose that e.1
(kjex)(x - T] (k )

OkEZd

s

- F(T](O')(q»)] ;(dx)dS s

is a

martingale.

is just JotF'

(cp)

The second term on the right side of (cp)ds , the third term converges in

to

(here

term converges to zero. as

m = Jx 2

+

F(Tlt(cp» is a martingale. TJO(cp)

2;(dX)

cp E J(R

r F' (Tl s (cp»T] s (cp)ds t

'0

Q(ex),s.

and

1}

0'

F E

t

Also by the central limit theorem the distribution of m 2\\cpl\;

This determines the weak limit,

In fact, for each

2 (QiJ.)

J0 F" (T] s (cp) )ds

\\q>\\22 m2

is normal with mean 0 and variance

of the

d)

L

), and the fourth

Thus any weak limi t point of {Q (ex) ;

must be such that for all

0'

(1.1)

d

cp

Uh1enbeck process under

) ,

TJt(q»

under any weak limit Q(m), uniquely (see [6]).

is a one dimensional Ornstein -

Q(a)

We still must prove that

{Q(O');O'

1}

is relatively compact.

Before stating the relevant theorem we int,oduce some notation. n

=

(n 1, ••• ,n

d)

and d

(x 1'· •• ,x d) E R where

a = (a

, then

For

1,

••• ,a

d)

are multi-indices and

n "i nd x = Xl , ••• ,x d

q? E

set

and

\\cpl\a n ,

a D =

0 8

1al

x

If

= ad

oX 11 , ••• ,oxd

sUPd' xER

156

(1.2)

Theorem: d

D([O,

(1.13)

>

t ) ...

J

t )

J

Thus the third term on the right side of

(1.7)

converges in

to (1.15 )

-m211Cll1l22

o

s

Thus the weak limit

P

on

d

C([O,=),..P'(R»

> s)ds •

j

(=)

,of the

p(ct),s

such that for all

distribution with mean zero and variance

is the unique measure d

Cll E ,.P(R)

1l 0 ( cp )

has a normal

and for all

F E



161

is a

P

(a> )

- martingale.

(T]t(ct'l), ••• ,Tlt(ct'n»

Note that for

is just an

n-dimensional time-inhomogeneous

Brownian motion with covariance

where

p(t)

is non-increasing. In one and two dimensions the diffusion coefficient converges to zero as the time gets large and in three or more dimensions it has a strictly positive limit. We want to emphasize again that even though the limit in each of these examples was Markovian, this is not the usual situation. complicated interactions the limit is hardly ever Markovian.

For more For example

if the interacting system is the stochastic Ising model and we hold the potential fixed except for the external field, then as we vary the external field there is at most one value of the external field for which the limiting process is Markovian.

The Markovian limits obtained above

resulted from the linear nature of the interaction.

This linearity is

one of the clues that the rescaling used in the next section may result in the more interesting limit obtained there.

Another clue th£ the

rescaling in the next section may work is contained in the second moment computation.

From

(1.11)

we see that, if

p

(1. 16)

lim E t ...

d

3 ,

constant d-2

(k)T] t (j) 1

\k _

o:>

as

j!

\k - j \

Every example that we have for which the rescaling in the next section yields an interesting limit satisfies

(1.16).

162

2.

Rescaling Space and Time. In this section we again consider the voter model but use a diffe-

rent rescaling.

Thus

P

will be the same as it was in section

1.

Since we are going to speed up the time we can discover how to renormalize by considering the asymptotic behavior of (2.1) as

0'

lim E t .... cc

')' cp(k/O')ll

k

goes to infinity.

behavior of (2.1)

P

(2.1)

From

is asymptotically

indicates that in

we see that the asymptotic

1

If

whereas i f

f d fdw(x)cp(y) R

3

(1.11)

j

depends on the dimension.

is asymptotically constant

in

t(k»2

2

and

1

Ix

R

-

yl

d

1 or 2

then

d:2: 3

then

(2.1)

dimensions we should divide by d+2

or more dimensions we should divide by

This

d-2 dXdyad+2

If

a

d

and

d = 1 or 2

this yields the uninteresting limit which is identically zero, thus we concentrate on the case d+2 (0')

TJ t

_

(cp) - 0'

-Z\,

I

O')ll

to be determined later. on

d:2: 3

e(O')t(k)

Let

under

For , where

pea) P

i-L

and 13(0')

let

is a function of

be the distribution of and

We use the same notation,

pea) , here that we used in section

The meanings that they had in section

1

even though they are different. 1

will not be used in this

section. Again it is not difficult to show that

{p(a):O':2: I}

is rela-

tively compact by checking the hypotheses of Theorem (1.2), so we will concentrate on identifying the limit. Then

Fix

cp E

and

F E



163

d+2

(2 .2)

(cp»

-

So

p(k, j)[ F('ll - T)

S

(a) (qJ)

oo» -

cp(kja)(11 s (j)

F(T)(ja)( )(cp»]dS

Ba

S

-

=

2 +:

d+2

-

- S;F"

(11

s(a)s(j)

- 'D,8(a)s(k»2cp2(kja)a-(d+2)8(a)dS

_.£ - 3 _ 0(0' 2

8(a)t) d+2 -

=

- CP(;))'D,8(a)sU)S(CL)a

r

t 1 (a) " - 2'0 F (11 s

\' " ' .

.

-11

B(a)s(k»

2 2 k cp

2 ds

-d -2 0' e(::;;)ds

- 2. _ 3 - 0(0' 2

8 (O')t)

= F('D,t(O') (cp»

-

t

foF

I

2 (11 (a) (cp»1] (0) (0"2 Llcp)0'-28 (a)ds s s

t

p p(O,j)E \.I[ (11 (O')sU) S

-1,fo F"

'i1

s (a ) s (0»2]0-""2 8 (a)ds

1 st" (0') \' \ ' . . 2 2 1./ -d - 2 0 F (11 s (cp) )[ P (k , J ) ( \ (0' ) s (J) - 1] 8 (a) s (k» cp ('Y 0')1)' P

-

-

is a

8 (0')

0

P =

t1

(a

-2

S (o j t )

- martingale.

i.

2 p (k, j)E \.I[ (11 (I)')s (j) - 11 (O')s (k) )2]cp (kja)O'-d ] 0'-2 8 (I)')ds 8 S

At this point it is clear that we should take

Now consider the third term on tie right side of

(2.2)

164

P

(2.3)

2 (j) -T) 2 (0»

j

Q'S

.... where

p

as

2

] = j

Q'S

Q' .... 00

- 2m 2P

(0

.)

,j

2

(T";Q' s )

,

is the probability that a random walk with transition function

+ p(j,k)] Thus for large

Q'

starting from the origin never returns to the origin. the third term is essentially

Finally we come to the fourth term on the right side of

(2.2).

In all of the examples which we have of this rescaling the computations all have the same ingredients and this term is always the most difficult to handle.

We want to show that it converges to zero in

In this particular case it is not too difficult to show that in fact it converges in

because we have tractable expressions for

the second and fourth moments of On the other hand, even with

T)s(k)

(1.11)

given in

and

(1.11)

and

(1.12).

(1.12) , the computation

is tedious and we will leave it to the reader to check that the fourth term does indeed tend to zero in Note also that

as

E[ g(X\(",.w') =gt(w.X(w,v l one has g(X) E L(Z;n..E:.F) and x: = K + g.

is the "dual predictable projection" of the jump measure of A c JRP

that is for all Borel subsets

v([O,tlxA)

Y

C {!lI Ys l > 1. } + y t

rely discontinuous) local martingale. Next, At last,

Y = (yj) , J";P

= 0,

position:

B

CO=O,

s,,;;t;

and they are characterized as follows: first,

where

?/ 2 •

a positive predictable random measure on JR xlRP .. ith

\1(w;l\>«03> = y(w;(OJ)

(e

i

-1. - iI (I z \

'1.) »)) (ds , dz ) •

Then (c r , [9, proof of 0.51)], or [7J): (2.3) LEMMA: An adapted, right-continuous process

Y

with left-hand limits

is a semimartingale with local characteristics (B,C,v) if and only if, for all u eJRP, the process e i < u] y> _ pu is a local martingale. Now we go back to equation (1.1). In the following we assume (1.2), (1,3), (1.4), and

(B,C,v)

denote the local characteristics of

The following is an increasing predictable process:

Z over

174

We have a factorization

l b

c

= (oj) j""m'

c = (c

Y

(dt,dz)

an ::IRm-valued predictable process,

j k)

k ' an mxm nonnegative symmetric matrix-valued predictaJ, "m ble process, 0

Nt(w,dz),

a predictable transition measure on ::IR

From (2.4) it is easy to see that one may choose

m•

b,c,N

such that

(2.6) Now, define the following collection of predictable processes on - - , with ue:::IRm+d ,and with this additional piece of notation: if -zE::IR m and XE::IR d, we denote by y = (z,x) the vector of ::IRm+d whose components are c

(putting

= zj

if

yj

jk t

L

gj-m,l c lk t t 01 k-m,l gt '[ j-m,l c lq k-m,q l,q""mgt t gt

cg,jk t

(2.7)

yj

=x j-m

otherwise.

if

j,k ;,;:m

if

k ",m

.2!!.

and

l' e

If

with

V(w,x) = U(w)W(x),

we will denote by M (n) =mc

onto

/t of both 11.n= {Pta.: PE,./{J and

ll!!

(3.4) THEOREM:

are continuous.

and PI its marginals on I2. P M-':> Pin. (re sp , l'

M Ul) =m

(3.,3) THEOREM: A subset if

bounded measurable

p!-'L

Of course. the mappings:

are continuous from

i.!!;

U

W bounded uniformly continuous on

(Q)

and on

reV)

is also the coarsest one for which

(resp.

M =c

is relatively compact i f and only J1*,=

are relatively compact

respectively.

(pll)

be a sequence converging to

l'

in

Let

Fw = {XfX: (w,X)E F} .!§. '(s-closed in -n lim sup(n) P (F) = '1. Let V be a bounded measurable

be such that each section .;. O.

be such that

sup(n) sUPs

xnEl':k'

1.s ,

be a sequence of points in

t? 0

s there exists a sequence n Llx (t n ) ------? Ax(t). We have

Since

t !x(s)!) for all

Then:

induce the same topology on l"k' Proof. Let

s
n,gn,U t

/0(t[ vsn,gn"u

,i< I(Zn X K n » ] dAn exp u s-' s- - ss •

We turn now to a first set of conditions. (3.10) Condition on

pn: n

0.11) Condition on

K

(3.12) Condition on

Zn:

:

(pn)

pCO in

converges to

M (12) •

=m

= 0 , all

lim(n)pn[suPs.,;t lim(n)pn

bounded I-stopping time

T

on

n.

I:;. fJ = 0

for all

(3.13) Tightness and linear growth condition: for each a predictable process

"'n

A on and that:

JIll) 0

such that

nEiN

0

and all

there exists

and a predictable increasing process ,vn (t n 2 n At - Jo dAs is increasing

V(os»

(i) (11)

f;>

£.>0.

\x(s)I),

lim(D)pDUs('An,A:co»f)

=0

all

for all

the Skorokhod distance on the space

nelN • .>0,

where

Ss

denotes

D«(O,co),JR+);

(iil) there exists a measurable process

0

on

such that

a s o , wEll the set (t: Vt(£v) such that for all t 0 we have

> a}

is discrete, and

tor all

(3.14) Convergence condition on solution-measures: this is a condition on each pIt being a sOlution-measure of (1.1,n). n co pn£) = 0 for all m+d (n) T _ T £: ';> 0 , u eJR ,and all bounded I-stopping time T on

a sequence We have:

(pn)

0.15) Continuity of

.,.T I

lim

gCO: for all

n..

WEn,

es o ,

is continuous

185

on

endowed with the uniform topology (or equivalently with 00 since gt(G.I,x) depends upon x only through the values x(s), s tJ :IN is tight. Henc e i f "Z /' 0 there d ",mc nE -n exists a bs-compact subset H of such that P (H) '" p(X E H) 't for all Since

nEJN.

Xn

most all

There exists

a'70

such that

xEH

is a solution of (3.28), we also have "'"' E S2-

and all

n EJN.

If

£. '7 0,

n

sUPs,,;t

Xn(w)£*(w)

a. for P-al-

we obtain

,u

X(.)EHnac(.»

"'n vg(X ),u)eXPi £. , s s- sss and Xn(.)EHn*(.)} 3O«'l+lu!2)('l+a) (t('1+0 )Ign(X n) _g (Xn»)dA ;of 1 )0 s s s s J where for the last inequality we have used (2.13), (3.25,i) and the fact Ix(s) 15 a

that

if

XE H.

last term in 0.38) tends to

0

Now, lemma 0.30) implies that the

when

n l oo ]

since "170

is arbitrary,

we obtain (3.14). It remains to prove that if

P

then and the theorem will

is a very good extension of fo110w from (3.16). We may assume that

(pu)

Let

,f,P) ,

M lole a bounded martingale on

=n (p )nEJN'

is a limit point of

(il.,

n ...,

P

tends to s "'"t ,

and

in

UE B

that is F -measurable. Then =:s E[U(M t - Me)] because each surable

U eB

limen) En[U(M t - Ms)]

=:

me

M

=mc

(ft).

(li)

0,

is a very good extension. The set of all F and F=s' =sE(Mt-M IF ) =:0. The right-continuity of M s =sE(M - M IF ) =0, and the result is proved •• t s =s (.IT.)

generates a a--field that is in between

mc so we have proTed that implies that

3-d.

PROOF OF THE MAIN THEOREM (3.16). Let us begin with a "Gronwall lemma", whose proof is reproduced here

for the sake of completeness (see [12J).

191

(3.39) LEMMA: There exists a mapping property:

11

F

(resp.

k:

_lR+

with the following

is a right-continuous nonnegative predicta-

ble (resp. adapted) increasing process on some filtered probability space

11

(Jl.,!,,!:,P),

.!!

FO ",0,

FT

Each stepping time

is predictable, and hence is announced by a sequence stopping times: we have

U(n,j)a) ,

qeJN,

=

Rn(a,a',a",q)

c>(a)

= inf(t:

a'> 0 ,

put

jXtl>a).

we put rn(a)A en(a')f)V

s

secondly the existence of

for at least one

s Condition 0.10) implies the existence of "7

with

Condition 0.13,iii) implies: firstly the existence

such that p(J)(sup

NV

s-.;;N) " ' a for at least one Pn (..1Z s There exists

a' >'1

0.11) there exists

such that

such that: n

s..

I

'i.

4.

(3.51) From 0.47) there exists

ssN)";;

N \K(J) l>a t -'1).,;; £/16. From s n (Xl IK s - Ks -:I.) .:; such that: n

p(J)(sup

£/8. From 0.10) there exists pJL(sUPS:!ON \K: I>a' f/8. Then

qEJN,

such that N)s £/16 3EJN f/8. From 0.10) there exists

and that: such that:

f -:;.0,

=====j>

of

pn(sup

[O,Rn(a,a',a",q»,

s

n

Then

f 4'

195

a),

and consider the Tn,s defined in 0.47). q CD CD -CD We have: lima too cr(a) = (]), and: lim(q) 1Tq =(]) P -a.s., thus P -:.s. Therefore it suffices to prove that, for each fixed a, q and if T = T]lAC) /Irr a ,then q

«])

n

is a

-n

;:::(J)

P

-local martingale, while knowing

P -local martingale for each nEJN. Actually, n one may replace "local martingale" by "martingale", since M is bounded o] by 1.+40 - exp t

E -n

ill c u jYt/lTill»J

ill gill U

CD

E [U(expi 00 n

'En[U(pill,g ,u _ ;nn,g 'U)J. tI\ Too 't" t II Tn n By

T f

T:),

we have

)

2pq luI'

because of (3.11) and (3.20,i).

be a t's-compact subset of H Ign(w,x) _gCD(w,x)l, s

to the measure

s

=

and let

this "ess sup"

boeing taken with respect

:=

Then

for all. xeH, pCD_ a• s• in lAo (use (3.60». By (3.15) and Lebesgue convergence Theorem. we have

-n

P

n -n

CD

-a.s., and (3.55) implies that

p (FH:,;>£)---O.

But

0.

Le t

An = Hn.F.

F be

Set

J

n[n (,n Ht b t Hn [cn,jk + (Nn(dZ)fj(z)fk(z)]

I'n

f

n e IN.

for all

j't

t

n

Nt (dz ) •

t An , I'n An An "'n -I'n B =b .F, C =c .F, -y (h)=N (h),F.

/'

If

uEJR

m

we set

0.63)

/'J'

n U n '1. wt' = i -

hence i f

Cf\i(z) = e

(3 . 64)

Hn

t

i i

n,

Wt

",j

n jk/'k f.n (i A\ Ct' U +jNt(dZ) e -'1-iI{IZI,;;"1.})

A

-'1- Lc u /f(z»

'1.

/'

+2"ku jf(z»)

2

,

we have

A /'b n '1" "'j An, jk "k "'N n (l1J ) - 2" Lj,k.;m U c t U + t 111



0.58) implies:

We pick w

i

o

t

/'

/'

[\bn(W)_bCD(,-,)1 s s

+ \cn(w)_BCD(w)/ s s

+

and a

O.

0.65) implies that there exists an

Consider an infinite subset ::tPc]N. infilldte SUbset ]Nil (w)cJN'

-N:(w,h)IJdFs(GJ)

dFs(w)-full subset

D(w)cJR+,

with

0.66) An j\oo, N ("",h) = N_,... ,h)

s

In particular.

lim

An

n

ACD

....,,() M ('"',h) = N (w,h ), w

S

0

S

s

which yields:

0

lim a 1 CD \z l>aJ) = O. Hence. since Jrl' is dense in C, it is easy to check that 0.66) holds for all h EC, and in particular h::lfa (recall that f(z)=z for z small enough ) ; Then 0.64) and 0.66) imply that: limn .., -.rll() Hn(w)wn''U(LJ) = HCD(w). in by (3.70), """'n.""oo m Z _ _Z in • A simple computation shows that the predictable

process with finite variation in the canonical decomposition of

BD.,

while

I t,Zn I,; 1.

because of

\f I,; 1..

Zn

is

Thus (3.72) implies (3.20,11).

By (3.71) we have V([Zn,j,zn,k J

(3.76) Since

Cn,jk

- [ZOO,j,zoo,kJ \

0,

h(z)!( Izj21\1.)

0.

For each

h: lRm----'P:ffi



it follows that

continuous, such that

L .Sn AA S

S

S

lH (2 < Y_ I f I > +

is a local martingale. Thus

If' /2..iA +

L

j .. d

crt j j

G ••

210 IV

A/,."

Proof of (4.12). By (2.26,a), it suffices to prove that if is a good extension of (Q,r,I,p) and if X and X' are two solutionprocesses on this extension, then X= X' P­a.s. Let Y =X ­ X' , cT'(n) = inf(t: IXt \ '" Il or n), g = g(5b ­ g(XI). Then we have Y = goZ •

'Xt

Since of Z on this space ded by (4.1), Y is tion is Y = M I + F' , to this process Y,

is a good extension, the canonical decomposition is still Z = M+ F, and since g is locally bouna special semimartingale whose canonical decomposiwith M' = geM and F' = geF. We will apply (4.13) and in (4.14) we have .,­, jj

fl

=

L

",jk(1"kl "'jl k,l..:m g g.

Let nlOE be fixed, and G (depending on n ) be given by (4.16). We have that N = Iy 12/ H ­ G is a local martingale. But (4.16), (4.17), .-.J tV ,v ,v the facts that g=g(X) ­g(X') and that Y=X­X', and (4.10), imply that Gt,,;;; 0 i f t c:r(n). Since Iy 12/ H :;0 0, i t follows that ,.J

(Ntt\o­(n»t"O is a local martingale that is nonnegative. Hence it is a nonnega ti ve supermartingale, and since NO = 0 we must have Nt Ao­(n) = 0 P­a.s. for all t .. O. Hence ]yj2/H = G on [O, 2(2d+l).

I

x

y}.

It holds

By Holder's inequality,

E!nt(x,y) - nt,(x' ,y') I

p

+

-

1

2p

1

) 2} .

221

By Lemma 1.3 and Proposition 1.1, we have

(1.7)

Elnt(x,y) - n ,(x',Y')1 t

-p

< Cp, T IX-YI

-

-2

< c8

p,T

if

P

!x-y!

2.

and

8

-p

p

p{ Ix-x I

P

I

Ix'-y'l

+ Is-s'

P

I

2. 8}.

Since

we get the assertion.

T

+ Ir-s' I +

2) t- t

%

'I }

.J2.

21 t- t I2 }

+

2. 8, where

Then by Kolmogorov's theorem, nt(x,y) {(x,y)! Ix-y!

p

Ix' -y' I {Ix-x' I

I

is a positive constant.

C

p,T

is continuous in

[O,T] x

0 are arbitrary positive numbers,

and

The proof is complete.

The above lemma leads immediately to the "one to one" property of the map

for all

t

a.s.

We shall next consider the onto property. Lemma 1.5.

Let

is a positive constant

T >

a

and

p

We first establish

be any real number.

Then there

such that

1f t

(1. 8)

Proof.

We shall apply Ito's formula to the function

t

(x»

- f(x)

= L

i ,j

Jt

0

zi

s

J

s

(x»dM

j

s

E

[O,T].

222

Let

K be a positive constant such that I

I

J

holds for all

i

< K(l +

and

j.

Ixi

2

)2

Then,

Therefore,

IE1tl < 2rldjp!KfE(I+ It: s(x)1

2)Pds.

o

Similarly,

so that

IEJ t

I

Therefore we have

< Iplrtd + 2Ip- I

I)K2f E(1 o

+ It:s(x)

12) Pds .

223 E(l + !!;t(x)1 2)p

2.

(1

+ Ixl

+ const.J\(l + !!;s(x)1 2)Pds.

2)p

o

By Gronwall's inequality, we get the inequality of the lemma.

Remark. Therefore, inequality (1.8) implies

(1. 9)

Now taking negative

P

in the above lemma, we see that

tends to infinity in probability as

x

We shall prove a stronger convergence.

Lemma 1.6. of

Rd.

r:

nt(x,w)

We claim

be the one point compactification

Proof.

1

if

is a continuous map from Obviously

nt(x)

x

= 00

[0,00) x

is continuous in

into

l R

a.s.

[0,00) x Rd.

Hence it is enough to prove the continuity in the neighborhood of infinity.

Suppose

p > 2 (2d + 1) •

I

tends sequencially to infinity.

Set

nt.(x)

Then

d R u {co}

Let

!!;t(X)

It holds

224

By Holder's inequality, Proposition 1.1 and Lemma 1.5, we have I

I

Eln (x) - n (y)I P < (En (x)4p)4(En t s t s

t

(x) _

I

s

(y)1 2p)2 £.

Cp,T(l + Ix/)-P(l + lyl)-p(lx-yIP + It-sI

if

Set

t,s

E

[O,T]

and

x,y

-x1 = (xl-1 , ... ,x-1 ). d

E

d

R , where

C

p,T

is a positive constant.

Since

we get the inequality

Eln (x) - n (y)I P < C (1 1 _ liP + It-sI t s - p,T x Y

a

2).

Define

n (x)

if

x., °

if

x

t

=

°

Then the above inequality implies £.

E/n (x) - n (y)/P < C T(lx-yIP + It-sI t s P,

In case

y = 0, we have

2),

x., 0, y

°

2)

225

Therefore

nt(x)

This proves that

d

[0,00) x R

is continuous in nt(x)

is continuous in

by Kolmogorov's

[0,00) x

theorem.

neighborhood

of

infinity.

Proof of "onto" property (Varadhan). t

= Rd u {oo}

on

Define a stochastic process

by

A

E;t(X) if

Then

t

(x)

Thus for each map on

is continuous in

[0,00) x

t > 0, the map

t(o,w)

Rd

by the previous lemma.

is homotopic to the identity Then

which is homeomorphic to d-dimensional sphere

t(o,w)

is an onto map of

Now the map

t' we see that

by a well known homotopic theory.

is a homeomorphism of

one, onto and continuous. map

x

E;t

Since

00

Ad

R , since it is one to

is the invariant point of the

is a homeomorphism of

Rd.

This completes

the proof of Theorem 1.2.

2.

Smoothness of the solution In the previous section, we have seen that the solution

of Ito SDE (1.1) is a homeomorphism for all ficients are Lipschitz continuous.

t;t(o,w)

t, provided that coef-

We shall show in this section that

226 k-c1ass, if coefficients are of C then for any

t.

is a Ck-1_diffeomorphism

We first state

Proposition 2.1. that coefficients

and Freid1in

X ••• ,X 1, r

t

a.s.

I

where

I

Proof.

in

k=l

Jt

X_'

0 --k

s

(x)

s

(x)

satisfies

cUt,s

(--) dX j

Following [2], we will give the proof.

(0, ... ,0,1,0, .•. 0)

(1

d

+ he£, where

R

and let

x' = x

Then it satisfies

(2.2)

+ r2:

(.::.::.t.) dX. J

is the identity matrix and

Xk(x)



k-1_c1ass is of C

Then

Furthermore Jacobian matrix

(2.1)

Suppose

k-c1ass of equation (1.1) are of C and

their derivatives are all bounded. for any

12]).

11 (x,x') t

is the £-th

h

component)

Let

be a unit vector

is a non zero number.

Set

227

S (x,x') = (x), (x'), n (x,x')) is a t t· t t 3d-valued R stochastic process with Lipschitz continuous coefficients.

We may consider that

Then by Proposition 1.1, we have

E!St(X'x') - ss(y,y')jP

Therefore

St(x,x')

2

is continuous in

dX£

exists and is continuous in

To get (2.1), make

t

(2.3)

h

(t,x,x')

in

2d• [O,T] x R

and has a continuous extension to ---(x)

+ jx'-y'jP + It-sI

tend to

(t,x)

°

122)

[O,T] x

This proves that

for almost all

in (2.2).

w.

Then we obtain

(x)

This proves (2.1). Consider next the SDE for the pair

Coefficients

dX£ (x)).

of these equations are of Ck-l-class and their derivatives are bounded. We may apply the same argument to the pair. have continuous derivatives

Then we see that

provided

k > 3.

---

dX£

Repeating this

argument, we get the assertion of the proposition.

The smoothness of coefficients

X j

is a local property and boundedness of

and their derivatives are not needed.

boundedness is not satisfied, choose for each class functions xjn) , n=1,2 •.• and derivatives of each associated to

xi

n)

X(n) j

, ... ,x;n)

such that

X j

xjn) (x)

are bounded. coincides with

In fact i f the

a sequence of Xj(x)

if

Then the solution for

Ixl < n i;(n) (x,w) t

228

t
0

k-l C -class in

II; (x,w) t

Ixl .::. m < n

infinity, we see that

if

T

n

I ->

n },

Therefore

(x,w) > t.

Since

is of

I;t(x) T

n

(x)

tend to

k-l is of C -class everywhere for any

I;t(x,w)

It remains to prove the smoothness of the inverse map

-1

t ,

We

I;t •

claim Lemma 2.2. (c.f. Ikeda-Watanabe [8]) t > 0

singular for all Proof.

x

Dl;t(x) is non-

a.s.

We shall consider a matrix valued SDE for each r

(2.4)

I -

The solution

and

Matrix

K t

t

K X-' (I; S-K s k=l Jo

L:

satisfies

k s

(x) dM

K DI; ex) t

x

t

I

for any

t.

In fact, by

Ito's formula we have

(2.5)

dK °DI; (x) + K dDI; ex) t t t t

Substitute (2.1) and (2.4) to (2.5), then we see that the right hand side of the above is

O. This proves

KtDl;t(x)

=

I, showing that

Dl;t(x)

is nonsingular. Now the inverse mapping theorem states that k-l a C -class map.

Theorem 2.3.

We have thus obtained the following theorem.

Suppose that coefficients of equation (1.1) are

of Ck-class and their first derivatives are bounded. k-l is a diffeomorphism of C -class for any

Then the solution t

a.s.

229

In later discussion, we shall mainly concerned with Stratonovich SDE.

Therefore it is convenient to get analogous results for Stratonovich

SDE.

Let us consider a SDE

(2.6)

t

where the right hand side denotes the Stratonovich integral.

If

2 are of C -class. the equation is written as the Ito SDE

(2.7)

Therefore if

Xl' ...• x r

together with their first and second derivatives

are bounded, all coefficients of equation (2.7) are Lipschitz continuous. Then the solution

is a homeomorphism for any

t

a.s.

We then

have

Theorem 2.4.

Suppose that coefficients

SDE (2,4) are of Ck-class (k

2).

XI, ... ,X

of Stratonovich

r

Suppose further that

XI, ••• ,Xr

together with their first and second derivatives are all bounded. the solution

k- 2-diffeomorphism is a C for any

t

Then

a.s.

Here,

Let

M be

CO-diffeomorphism means a homeomorphism.

3.

Case of Manifold In this section, we shall consider SDE's on manifolds.

a a-compact, connected Coo-manifold of dimension Ck-vector fields on

M where

k >

2

and

d.

Let

XI' ••••Xr

be continuous

be

230 semimartingales.

We shall consider SDE on the manifold M;

(3.1)

A

o


since

1

be a geodesic

II

(_a)

a l Yo

The covariant derivative

y(t)

exp

x

o

(3.6)

II

-1

increases the distance. YO such that y(O) = YO and

(_a)

al Yo

X at

YO

a

II Since

exp

is written as

a

i

(-k) II z x k(YO) (-.) ay Yo i ' ay1. Yo

increases the distance, we have

y(t)

X(yO)

II.::. II

a

.

2

(k)y II (l: xl.k (yo) ) 0 i ' ay

1

2

1

2 2 .::. (l: x k(YO) ) i

i

'

Note that

a

i

x and YO'

a

k ax

k(YO) = - k , ay

k(YO)

=

0

Then we have i

x (yo)

Remark.

i

x

since i

X,k(Y O)

is bounded in

(yo) - l: j

(y 1 ,

.

J

d ,Y)

.

k(YO)XJ(y o)

is a normal coordinate with origin

= k a x i (yo)' ax

Inequality (3.6) implies that

Yo'

If the sectional curvature of a connected complete

Riemannian manifold is greater than a positive number, then the manifold is compact.

Hence the solution of (3.1) is always a flow of diffeomorphisms

236 We shall finally consider the equation (3.1) when the Lie algebra generated by vector fields

Xl ••..• X r

is of finite dimension.

We will

not assume any condition to the manifold where the equation (3.1) is defined. For two vector fields XY - YX.

X. Y. we define the Lie bracket

It is again a vector field.

fields

il •.•. ,i

n

n l

it as

as

The Lie algebra generated by vector

tx.1.

is the linear span of vector fields

[X.1. _ ,X.] ••. ]. n=1,2, ...• where 1.

[X.Y]

E

n

1

[X. [ •.. 1.

{1,2, •.. ,r}.

2

We denote

L.

Theorem 3.8.

Suppose that

Xl •...• X r

00

are complete C -vector

fields and that the Lie algebra generated by them is of finite dimension. 00

Then the solution

of SDE (3.1) is conservative and is a C -

diffeomorphism of

Proof.

M for any

t > 0

a.s.

We need a fact from differential geometry.

(e.g. Palais [17]) that any element of exists a Lie group

product manifold

of

M. i.e. there esists a C -map

there exists

M such that (a) for each

from the g ¢(g,o)

is

M and (b) ¢(e.o) = identity, ¢(gh,o) = ¢(g.¢(h,o)) G.

(Lf.) The map

g --..¢(g, 0)

is an isomorphism from

G (= right invaraiant vector fields). X of

(L) G is a Lie ¢

G into the group of all diffeomorphisrns of M. (iii) Let Lie algebra of

It is known

is complete and that there

00

G x Minto

a diffeomorphism of g, h

L

G with properties (L) - (iii) below:

transformation group of

for any

w.

such that

be the

For any

X of

L

237

(3.7)

X(f o ¢ ) (g)

Xf(¢(g,x»

x

00

holds for any C -function

G such that Now let

X.J

(j=l, ..• ,r)

Here

fo¢x

00

is a C -function on

LX.J

t

relating to

be elements of

Consider SDE on

j

X. J

by

G

) odMjt

is a Brownian motion, the solution

If

a Brownian motion on Lie group [9] •

M.

on

f o¢ (g) = fo¢(g,x). x

the formula (3.7).

(3.8)

f

G.

is so called

Ito has shown that

it is conservative

His argument can be applied to the above (3.8), provided that

j=l, ••• ,r

satisfies property (1.4).

general

j=l, ... ,r

Then the conservativeness for

can be proved by the method of time change, as

we have stated in Section 1. Set each

(t,w),

=

where

is the unit of

is a diffeomorphsim.

fo¢(e,x) + L j

f(x) + L j

Therefore

e

I

I

We have

t

X.(fo¢

o

J

x

t

o

J

is a solution of (3.1).

s

G.

(x»odM

s

(e»OdM

j s

j s

The proof is complete.

Then for

238

4.

Decomposition of solutions Consider a Stratonovich SDE on a manifold

M:

r

(4.1)

j=l We shall assume from now that vector fields for simplicity.

The solution 1

Xl"",X

r

are of

00

C

is a functional of vector fields r

Ms, ••• ,M O 2 s < t, obviously. s' how the functional is written explicitly.

We are interested

We begins with a simple case.

The following proposition is more or less known.

Proposition 4.1.

Suppose that

fields and commutative each other.

Xl""'X

r

are complete vector

Then the solution of (4.1) is rep-

resented as

(4.2)

where

Exp sX

generated by

Proof. f

(x

_00

i,

X., 1

< s
t}.

the differential from

as

Dt(W)

onto

Rt(W).

Rt(W).

is a x

of

Dt(W) ,

is defined as a linear map

such that

X

x

t

IrJ X

)

x

E

T (M).

x

Given a vector field

X

at the point

We define a new vector field

x

Then

Given a point

of the map

to

Tx(M)

T(X,W).

It is the domain of the map

Denote the range of the map diffeomorphism from

(4.1) with life time

E

M.

on

M, we denote by

-1

(x)

X -1

(x)

X

x

the restriction of on

R t

X

by

'

Then it holds

00

for any C -function Let

1

f

d

(x , .•• ,x )

on

M.

be a local coordinate.

we see that the i-th component of is

i

(X) (x)

Taking

f(x)

= xi

above,

ralative to the coordinate

241

(__d_ dxk

Hence, denoting Jacobian matrix with components

-1

Now let

as

t

the vector

is

be the inverse of

The vector field

Then it holds

-1

(X) f (x)

for any COO-function f on M.

With a local coordinate

1

d

(x , ... ,x ),

we have

-1

Remark. and

If X

and 5.3

X

hold.

is commuting to all

X

then

These properties follow from Proposition 5.2

of the next section.

Suppose now we are given

other

M and continuous semimartingales

(4.4)

Xl"",X r'

00

C -vector fields

Yl""'Y s

Consider SDE

on

242 on

A sample continuous stochastic process is called a solution of (4.4) if

o(x)

t < o(x)

M with life time

is in

D t

for all

and satisfies

f(s (x» t

00

for all C -function on

M.

Then we have

We shall first ohtain SDE governing the composition map

Proposition 4.2. t

E

[O,o(x»

satisfies SDE

(4.5)

Proof. f

We shall apply an extended Ito's formula [14].

00

be a C -function on

coordinate

1

Ft(x) =

M and let

d

(x , ... ,x ), we shall write

L

j

J

t

(x»odM

we have by Theorem 1.2 of [14],

j

t

St

t

as

(x).

Let

Using a local

1 d (St"",St)'

Since

243

(4.6)

L

dFt(l;;t(X»

.

. aFt 01;; (x»odMJ + L ---.(1;; t t t. t

J

J

aX

. t

The second term of the right hand side equals

L

i,k where

is the i-th component of the vector field

1 d (x , ... ,x).

relative to the local coordinate

L

k

t

t

L

t

k

The above is equal to

k )(1;; (x»odN t t

01;; (x»odN t

k t

Hence (4.6) is written as

df(nt(x»

The proof is complete.

Remark.

Instead of (4.4), consider

L Yk(K )odNk .

(4.7)

k

Then the composition

(4.8)

t

At -

j L Xj(A )odM t t j

t

t

oK t

+L k

satisfies the equation

t

k * (Y )odN k)(A t t

244 This can be proved analogously as Proposition 4.2. We can now get the decomposition of solution of (4.1)

Theorem 4.3.

Consider two SDE's r

l: Y (I:; ) od}1j j=l j t t

(4.9)

(4.10)

If

Xj = Yj + Zj' j=l, •.. ,r

o
0

a.s.

The second half will be obvious.

Corollary. n

(x)

and the

n (x) t

is the solution of (4.1) for all

t

The first half of the theorem is immediate from

Proposition 4.2.

then

Furthermore, i f both of

are flows of diffeomorphisms, then so is

n (x) t

= I:;tOnt(x),

hold, the composition

If

Zj' j=l, ... ,r

are commutative to all

Yl""'Y r

of the theorem is determined by r

(4.11)

Proof.

.

l: z . (n ) odMJ j=l ] t t

Since

Zk

by Proposition

5.2, which will be established at the next section.

A typical example of the decomposition of the solution is that of linear SDE on

d; R

245

where

A is a dXd-matrix, B

is a dXr-matrix and

Wiener process.

The equation is decomposed to

Clearly we have

s. t (x)

e

At

x.

: e

Consequently, nt(x)

i;t (x)

x +

-At

W t

is a r-dimensional

Then

B.

t

Jo e-AsBdW.s

We have thus the decomposition

eAt(x + Jt e-AsBdW s)' o

Some other examples of decompositions are found in [13].

We will mention that the technique of the decomposition is used in filtering theory in order to get a "robust" solution (c.f. Doss [6], Clark [4] and Davis [5]).

where

Consider a SDE on

is a Wiener process.

d R

Suppose that

are commuting each other, but they are not commuting with the equation to

XO'

Decompose

246 r

t

= L

j=l

= Exp W1X

Then. it holds

t

Then

1

0

and its Jacobian matrix

are locally Lipschitz

continuous with respect to the Wiener process and

if

N > 0

there is a positive constant

II w. (w) IIT

N

II w. (;;:;)

and

Consequently the vector field continuous with respect to

II

W. (w)

-1

IIT =

sup Iw (w) O = A(f)a It is obvious that second order forms can be multiplied by COO functions on M. So we may also define : DEFINITION. Let f and g be COO functions on M. Then df.dg is the second order differential form 1 d 2 (fg)-fd 2 g-gd 2f ). df.dg = 2( We know that T(M)CT(M), so each second order form has a restriction to T(M), which is an ordinary form. It is obvious that d2fIT(M) = df df.dgIT(M) = 0 Remember now that we have global coordinates on M. We prove the intrinsic character of the "full second order differential of f" as it appears in

262

the cla£sical books THEOREM (trivial).

d 2f = D.f d 2xi + D.. f dxi.dx j 1

lJ

Proof: fix aeM. We don't change anything by replacing x i byi x i -a , so . . . 1 2 . . J= J we may assume that x1(a)=O, in which case dx1.dx (x1x ) , and the for2fl 2g1 mula reduces to the fact that d = d ,where a a g(x) = Dif(a)x

i

1

i

+ 2Dijf(a)x x

j

This is just the Taylor formula of order 2 : f(x)-f(a)-g(x) has a zero of order ?3 at a, so all differential operators of order 2 at a vanish on it. Just out of curiosity, it is natural to wonder about forms of higher orders. It turns out that they exist, that one can define the d and • operations in a nice way, but there are deep differences between orders 2 : essentially, for n>2, they are dual to something larger than differential operators of order n. They seem to be quite useless and inoffensive.

Our next step consists in extending the product • and the differentiation d to arbitrary 1-forms. This is now obvious. Given two 1-forms p=a.dx i 1 and a=b.dx j , define J i j 2i j i p.a = aibjdx .dx dp = aid x + Djaidx .dx We must check that the result doesn't depend on the coordinate system. Now we have the properties : - the product is commutative, and bilinear w.r.to Cill (M) multiplication - d(fp) = fdp+ df.p which in turn characterize both operations uniquely. Note that (18)

dpIT(v) = p

p.aIT(v) = 0 •

There is another intrinsic characterization of the d operator ( which doesn't extend to higher orders ). Let w be a form of order 1, and h(t) be a curve in M. Then we have d



-

h(t),w> = < h(t), dw> •

Differentiation raises by one unit the order of forms. There is another such operation, deduced from a linear connection f • Since f maps linearly T (M) into T (M), its dual ( which we denote by f too) maps a a forms of order 1 into forms of order 2, with the property that (19) f(p)IT(V) = p r(fp)= ff(p) • The Christoffel symbols appear in the expression of f (20) r(dx k) = d 2xk +

as follows

lJ

Note that d-f is a second order form whose restriction to T(M) is zero, i.e. just a symmetric bilinear form. If w = aidxi is a form

263 k

.

.

(d-r)w = (Dja iand on a Riemannian manifold we may take the trace of this quadratic form w.r. to the metric to get the scalar function k ij (21) -ow ( just consider the left side as the definition of 0 on forms, since we don I t need any general theory of the 0 operator, and remark that -odf = according to (10)).

f:::,f

6. ITO AND STRATONOVICH INTEGRALS In the usual set-up of stochastic integration, the Ito integral has an awkward geometric status ( it doesn't"behave well"under a change of coordinates ), while the Stratonovich integral has an awkward analytic status ( as Yor [1J shows, the approximation procedures which are traditionnally used to justify its use aren't valid for all semimartingales). The use of second order forms will clarify the situation. Roughly stated, the true stochastic integral is a second order object, like the semimartingale differentials themselves. To reduce it to first order, one may use two geometric procedures, which yield Ito or Stratonovich integrals. Also, remember that forms zhouldn't be integrated only on paths, but on chains, i.e. on paths provided with formal multipliers. Here our multipliers will be predictable ( locally )bounded processes. For simplicity, we shall omit the multipliers most of the time. a semimartingale with values in M, and let Q

=

a i d x l +a i j d x l .dx J be a (Coo) form of order 2 on M. Then we define the stot chastic integral /t Q X

Yt =

/t Q Xo

=

/t

o

l

S

of Q along the path X o i )dX + s

as the real valued process

Einstein convention

Let (Kt) be predictable process. Then the stochastic integral of Q alors the chain KoXt is the process --0 t t . 1 t . . / Q = / K dY = / K a. (X )dX l + -2/ K a .. (X )d KoXt 0 s s 0 S l S S 0 S l J s s o

PROPERTIES. 1) Probabilistic. Those of the usual stochastic integrals in : stochastic integrals are real valued semimartingales ; they remain unchanged if P is replaced by an equivalent law Q ( more generally, if Q«P the P-s .i. is a version of the Q-s.i. ) ; they are local on 0 ( if two semimartingales X and X' have the same path on some subset A of 0, the corresponding s.i. have the same paths on A ). Etc •.• The use of mUltipliers is convenient at many places. For instance, if U is a coordinate patch, it is convenient to use the multiplier I!XeU! to localize. If S,T are stopping one uses the multiplier IJS,TJ'"

264

2) Differential geometric. The first main property, of course, is the fact that it is intrinsic ( this is another expression of the principle of Schwartz: incidently, the principle of Schwartz itself might be recalled by a notation like It K d 2X ,G > ). More generally, let F : M N be o s s a map, on let G be a form of order 2 on N. Let also Z be the semimartingale FoX with values in N. Then we have It G It F*(G) Z X o 0 Also note the following simple formulas (22) I d 2f

the pull-back of G on M ).

Xto

It df .dg =

X

f(X), g(X) >t

o

DEFINITION. Let w be a ( Coo) form of order 1 on M. Then we define its (Stratonovich ) integral along the chain KoX as

I

(23)

I t dw KoX

t w o

KoX

o

Assume a linear connection f is given on M. Then the Ito integral of w along the chain KoX is (24)

(I)

I

KoX

tW o

I

t

KoX

fw

o

Let us pause for a discussion, since these definitions are the main point in this report here, Ito and Stratonovich integrals are given the status, both oan be used with arbitrary predictable multipliers. ( 80 the usual statement that S-integrals are less general than I-integrals is no longer valid here : this is due to the fact that we are working with COO forms. For qUite general forms the d operation would require more regularity than the r operation ). The Ito integral requires more structure than the S-integral, which is the main geometric object, as was discovered by Ito himself, and confirmed by all the subsequent work on the sUbject. Finally, we remark that no approximation procedure, no smoothing of the path, has been used to define the S-integral. SOME PROPERTIES. a) The main property of the Stratonovich integral, as noted by many authors ( personnally I learnt it in Yor [1J ) is the following: if w is a closed form, then It w is just the integral of w, in ---

X o

the differential geometric along the continuous path For an exact form w=df, this reduces to (22), the general case requiring a localization. b) Let F : M---;;oN be a map, and w be a form on N, Zt be

Then

265

we have

It F*(w) • This corresponds to the second order formula

X

0 * * just before (22), and the obvious property that F (dw)=dF (w). The corresponding relation for Ito integrals is a rare event. Indeed, denoting by the * (rw) same letter r two connections on M and N, the property that r(F* (w))=F is extremely restrictive. For reference below, note the formula on N , F*(rw) = r(F*(w)) +

(25) If

where the "greek" coordinates xC>' refer to N • c) The main property of Ito integrals is their relation to martingales. X is a martingale with values in M ( relative to r ) if and only if = (r)/ t w is a real valued local martingale for any form w of order 1. In X thisocontext, trivial identity (26 )

It w

X

o

(r)/ t w + It (d-r)w X

0

X

0

appears as the true expression of Ito's formula in a manifold M, since 1) it reduces to it when M=Rn with its trivial connection, and w=df, and 2) if X is a martingale with values in M, it gives the decomposition of the left side in its local martingale and finite variation parts. Let us give two applications of these computations to the Brownian j motion X of a Riemannian manifold M. In this case, if g=aijdxi.dX is a second order form reduced to its quadratic part, we have 1 t i' 1 ij (27) It g '2 I a .. (X )d = -2G(X )ds, where G = a .. g 0 s s s X o

1) Applying this to formula (26), and taking formula (21) into account, we get that G = -6w , a nice formula due to Ikeda-Manabe [1J. 2) Let us return to the situation of b), and look for the condition that F(X t) be a martingale with values in N • Looking at the rigbh side of (25), the first term gives a martingale by integration, while the secend is the purely quadratic second order form Q Y D .. F Q -rk.. Dk F Ct a f Ct .. d x i .dx j f.Q . + r eyo F Di FeD j F

Applying (27), we see that the condition is the vanishing of the functions Q G = .gi j • This is exactly the definition of a ha-rmonic mapping F : JVl---Y N ( Hamilton [1J, p.4 ). d) Let us end this section with a basic property of the Stratonovich integral. Let w be a form of order 1, and let f be a COO function. If we know the real valued semimartingale Y It w , then we may compute the t= X integral It fw = Zt by ordinary Stratonovi8h integration. More generally, if K is a (28)

X

0

predictable (locally)bounded process

I.Xt

o

fw

ItK f(X hdY 0 s s s

jtK f(X )dY + s s s

0

Y>s

266

7.

SEMlMARTINGALES AND PFAFF SYSTEMS Consider a distribution of submanifolds of dimension p in M, described as 1 ( stable under multiplication by cro functions ) of on the distribution. Locally we may describe

usual by the space ro all c forms which

..• ,n-p).

the distribution by the vanishing of forms avoid localization difficulties, we assume that the

Since we want to

are independent at

each point and describe the distribution globally. A differentiable curve h(t) then is an integral curve of the distribution if and only if

It

h

= 0

for

1,2, ••• ,n-p

o It is entirely natural to say that X is an integral semimartingale for the distribution if we have YCt = I t wCi = 0 for 1,2, ••• ,n-p • t Xo This property doesn't depend on the choice of the basis wet • Indeed, let w be any other form that vanishes on the distribution, aud let

Yt=/ t w ;

X Y = Itg (X O. On the other hand, 0 the t Oi OOiS s geometric meaning of (29) isn't at all obvious, except in the trivial case

writing w=g

=

we have

of a completely integrable system : then we may assume that (locally) exact forms, and moves in some

We

write

(29)

(29)

are

simply means that the semimartingale

=

Ci

integral manifold F

constant (

Ci

=1, •• ,n-p).

in its explicit second order expression:

(0)

It dw = 0 for X o and remark that weJ => fwe1-, and so

we.:!: It df.w X o

=

I xt0

d(fw)-fdw = 0 • Using the

Schwartz principle in the reverse direction, we may say that a second order tangent vector

L

belongs to the distribution if < L,dw > = 0 for all weJ

( therefore, = 0 for any form G ). It turns out that any distribution has some non trivial second order integral fields: namely, if A and B

are first order integral fields, then AB+BA is a second order integral

field, thanks to the formulas

(1) (32)

< AB, dw > = A -

>

0, exterior differential)

< AB+BA, dw > = A + B •

So AB and BA are second order integral fields if and only if AB-BA is a ( first order) integral field. 8. THE LIFTING OF A SEMIMARTINGALE THROUGH A CONNECTION The results on this section were explained to me by Schwartz. They are generalizations to general connections and general semimartingales of the classical "stochastic parallel displacement" theory, due to Ito and Dynkin.

267

The extension to general connections can be found also in Malliavin [1J, for brownian semimartingales. The geometric "second order language" can possibly bring some additional clarity to the subject. We shall use the "horizontal subspace"point of view for connections. For simplicity, instead of considering a fiber space, we consider just a product W=UxM, with global coordinates (xi) on the "base" M (19:::n) and (xO') on the "fiber" U As usual, 11 denotes the projection on the base, but we mention it as little as we can: if g is a function on M, we also denote by g the function gol1 on W • This concerns in particular the coordinates xi, and D. has a double meaning, as %x i on M and %x i on W. l

A connection r is a distribution of subspaces Hx ,u e Tx ,u(W), called horizontal subspaces, such that V(x,u)eW , 11* is an isomorphism of Hx,u onto - Tx (M) so Hx,u is supplementary to Vx,u =Ker(I1*1 x,u ), the vertical subspace of Tx,u (W». Then any tangent vector teT x (M) has an unique horizontal lift H(t) at (x,u)eW • To compute H(t) it is sufficient to know ( often denoted by V.l )

(33)

Going to the preceding section, we see that the distribution of horizontal subspaces is associated to the forms (34) gO' = duO' + l

Then any semimartingale (X on the "base" M has a unique lift Xt t) values satisfies the Stratonovich with prescribed initial gO' 0 differential equations that is Xo ) i (35 ) dU0't + r Ct( i Xt,Ut *dXt = 0 of course, even if r is CCO , one must be careful about the possibility of an explosion in (35). and X may have a finite lifetime. t We want to compute the second order tangent vector to the lifted semimartingale X , that Ls 2

xj D d _vi uO' D ' > t ij + and to compute from (36) the brackets .

(R 3) For any X,Ys*(M) (infinitely differentiable vector fields)

is an infinitely differentiable

function.

A Riemannian connection is a map

*

(H)

x

*

(1.1)

satisfying the following conditions:

(Co)

Xll

of independent random variables with

the cornmon distribution Pie Edt} = e-tdt

(3.2)

n A sequence ( x ( n) , c,c ( n ) , n ( n ) ' •••••• , n ( n )) E T ( k+ 1 ) (H) . 1 k

defined inductively as follows x(o) = x , £;(0) = £;, niO) = nl"" y (n)

x

(n+1)

,£;

-

nj

(n=O,l, ... )

(n)(e n+ 1) (n)

n(e n+ 1;n j

...

)

)

(n=O,l, ... ) where llx(dE;) is the uniform law on

Le. the unique prob-

ability law which is invariant under the orthogonal group defined by

< > .

means of the inner product

The isotropic transport process is defined by x(t)

Y

£;(t)

Y(x(n) ,£;(n)) (t-1 n )

I] .

J

(x

(n)

(t) = 11(t-1

, £;

(n) (t-1 n) ) (

"

("

n;n;n))

"

where 1

= e ... +e It can be shown that this defines a Markov n 1+ n. jump process on T(k+1)(M). Let at

00

e

be the space of differentiable functions on M which vanish

In order to compute the infinitesimal generator of the iso-

tropic transport process, we introduce the following operators: Pf(x,n 1,···,nk ) ,!, :

f(x,£;,n

x

1,

.. ·n ) lJ k x(dE;)

(fEe, t.>0)

277

"'_At

- Ie

o

f(y(t),Y(t),n

1(t),

... ,n

k(t»dt

(fEC, A>O)

(fEC,t>O)

(fEC,t>O)

It will be clear from what follows that these operators map C into C. t I[Zk+P-I]T f ds o s

=

t IT (Zk+P-I)f ds, 0 s

fEC

To prove this, it suffices to obtain the corresponding result for Laplace transforms.

To prove this, we first obtain

= f = k) From the smooth dependence on initial conditions,

Lemma 3.1.

into C.

maps C into C and (A-Z

The result now follows from Laplace transformation of

Propos i t ion 2.2. Lemma 3.2. Proof.

maps C

RAf '1

E{I o

+

I }e -At

.•.•• ,nk(t»

'1

The first integral is

'"

Ie

o

-t -At e f(y(t),Y(t),n1(t)' •.•..•

The second integral is

dt

278 E {J e -At f (x (t ) , I;(t ) ,11 (t ) , ..... , 11 (t ) ) d t } k 1 T

E{e

E{e

-AT 1

-hI

00

EJe

-AS

o

00

EJe

°

-AS

1

f(X(Tl+s),I;(Tl+s),1I1(Tl+s), ... ,lIk(Tl+s))ds}

f(x(s;x

(1)

),I;(s;1;

(1)

),1I

(1) (1) ), ... ,lI k(S;lI )ds} 1(S;1I1 k

Lemma 3.2 immediately implies the series representation

From this it may be shown that R

A

maps C into C, in particular RAf is

in the domain of Zk'

Lemma 3.3. Proof.

(A-Zk -P+I)R f = f A

Apply (I+A-Z

k)

to Lemma 3.2 and use Lemma 3.1.

Thus we have proved that RAf-A

-1

f

=

1

A- (Zk+P-I)RAf

By inversion of

the Laplace transform the first part of the theorem is proved. prove the second part i t suffices to show that ¢ for any fEC.

R (A-Zk-P+I)f-f A

Clearly 0) t

-

Brownian motion, then, for any (L;«)

1 v2 E[exp(- -2

Jto

is the radial part of a two dimensional v >0 : ds/R 2) IR .. a, R .. yJ .. I (ay/t) / I (ay/t) sot \I 0

That is to say, the first Hartman law with parameter tional law of ds/R 2 given R .. a and R .. y. o s o t

f

ay/t

is the condi-

The key to (l.e), and apparently to most results concerning ratios of Bessel functions as completely monotone (c.m.) functions of

IV ,

is a suitable

Cameron - Martin - Girsanov type result which relates one Bessel distribution to another. One advantage of this approach is that many ratios of Bessel functions in Ir and in variables.

I\I(r)

and

KV(r), known from the literature to be c.m.

IV separately, turn out to be jointly c.m. in these

287

The representation (l.e) of the first Hortman law is

disappointing

in several respects. It involves a conditioned process (or Bessel which is an inhomogeneous diffusion), and as a result the connection with the other Hartman laws (l.e) is so obscured that it is not clear why the law is infinitely divisible. Also, the second Hartman law is still more deeply hidden in the Bessel bridge. These matters are rectified with the help of the two parameter family of Bessel diffusions drift

BES(ll,o)

of Watanabe

[46J,

with index

u

0

and

o.

Our justification for the term "drift" is the result of d Rogers and Pitman [4cD that if X is a BM in R with a drift vector of 0 I) then X is a BES(ll,O) with index j J " (d-2)/2. In section 4 we present BES(ll, 0

(l.g)

.. inf{t : R .. x}. t

be the first time that the radial motion hits (l.h)

P with Xo .. Yo

E exp [ - 2I v 2

fOOT

x

dS/R

21

sJ

x. We show that

.. I ( 0) t

makes the infinite

-

divisibility of the first Hartman law plain. by decomposition of the

T for y > x. and the laws with the Laplace transforms (l.e)

integral at appear

y

as factors. Next. time reversal reveals a'tiual" representation for

the second Hartman law. namely E exp [-

i

v

2

J:

J ..

dS!R 2 s

x

where

L

sup{t : R t

x

= x}

K (ox) ! K (ox) V

0

is the last time at

x.

In view of the last exit decomposition of Pittenger and Shih

[39]

[j,6]. Hilliams [49J). the infinite divisibility

(see also Getoor and Sharpe

of the second Hartman law and associated factors with transforms (l.d) is now obvious. In section 5 we shall prove the following theorem

Theorem

(1.1) :

Let

be a

with a constant drift vector X

(l.j)

where 80

t

=R

t

(8(t),t> 0)

= v!lvl,

v

BN

.

1n

d R •

0, and let

d Rt

2, started at

0,

= IXtI.-Then -

8(foo ds!R 2) s

t

is a

EM

in the unit sphere

Sd-I

and independent of the BES«d-2)!Z.lvl)

d

of R , starting (R ,t > 0). t -

process

The reader is warned that it is critically important in the above theorem that

X starts at

O.

This result is to be compared with the classical skew-product for Rd-valued

EM. (Ito - Mc Kean [Z8) , § 7.15), which

ii.s)

when v

= o.

Amongst other things, the skew-product representationVexplains the result of Reuter, mentioned in the discussion of Kendall's paper

[3OJ ,

that

for Blf with drift. with T as in (l.g) , the hitting angle 8(TX> is x independent of the hitting time T. Indeed, it is plain from (l.j) that x 8 (T x) is independent of the whole radial motion prior to T X I which improves the result of Wendel

of

Tx'

(48).

and the same holds true for

Lx

instead

289

Inspection of (l.h) and (l.j) reveals that we have a new representation of the result of Hartman and Watson of

0(T x )

on the circle

that for

d

=Z

the distribution

(which is von Mises with

ox)

is a

mixture of wrapped normal distributions, as well as the corresponding results for

d > 2. By the skew-prouJct representation of complex

ffi1

with no drift, another such representation of the von Mises distribution on the circle,with parameter

ay/t, is provided by (l.e).

We note here the remarkable fact that in all these representations arising naturally from

the mixing law is the

N1

same. Remarkable, because,

as will be shown in SectionlO to settle a question raised by Hartman and Watson themselves, the mixing law is not unique. Also in Section 5, we show how the invariance of the family undertime inversion, discovered by Watanabe enables one to give a simple representation of the

Bessel bridges in terms of this family. Consequently, the

second Hartman law and the factors whose transforms appear in (1.0) and

(l.d) may be reinterpreted in the context of Bessel bridges, but the actual translations are left to the reader.

2 appearing in the formulae s above transform very simply in this representation, which helreexplain the It also turns out that the integrals of

dependence of the formula (l.e) on

ay/t

ds/R

alone, and the resulting

ubiquity of the first Hartman law.

In section 6 we leave Bessel processes for a while, to develop a simple general formula for the density of the (infinitely divisible) law of the last time

y that a transient diffusion on the y, but we return to apply this result to Bessel processes

line hits a point

L

(R,t > 0 ; pV) t x x, we recover the result of Getoor [13J that

in Section 7. In particular, if at

(l.k)

with (1. Z)

is a

BES(V,O) started

pV(L e.dt) = (l/Z)V[f(V)tV+1r l exp(- yZ/Zt)dt, a

V

y

Eo exp(-

o.Z

2:

Ly) - Zf(v)

-)

(o.y/2)

\}

290 There are equally explicit formulae for Let

KY be the probability on V

of (l.k). (Note that be denoted

BES(V,O). defined by the right hand side

(0,00)

is just as scale

2y2

3ud that

will

in Section 9), The 1,::>.,,18 seem to have been first V encountered by Hammersley [I!l, who showed thar

KY is the

(l.m) where

K

v

W distribution of fT o XP-2 dt for x x

0

Wxgoverns the real valued

is the hitting time of a for this on the line starting at has the Student

x, and

(X ,t > 0)

ffi1.

These laws appeared again in Ismail

t

0, independent of

-

R

t-distribution with

starting at

(E(t),t

is implied by the infinite divisibility of

is a

0)

IV' K

T

a

BM

.lith distribution then v 2v 2 degrees of freedom, and

that consequently the infinite divisibility of the Student this infinite divisibility of

(y!2V)2V,pcl!V

BM

and Kelker [25J, Where it was pointed out that if

12 B(R)

=

t

Grosswald

t-distribution

[IS]

es t ab l i shed

by an analytic argument, subsequently

simplified by Ismail [23J, but these authors seem to have been unaware of Hammersley's result (I,m), from which the infinite divisibility of

KY

v

T for a < x, qimilarly, the a infinite divisibility of is plain in (l.k) by a decomposition at L b for b < y. The connection between the two representations of in (l.k) is obvious by decomposition of the integral at

and (l.m) is provided by representation of Bessel processes used in Getoor - Sharpe

[i 5J

and a time reversal. Indeed, Getoor and Sharpe

rediscovered (l.m) by remarking that if the process

(2P-t xP!2, t

an d

y

Sharpe

= 2P- 1

IJ

P!2. wh'l e t h x e '

-v

started at

reversa 1 resu 1 t

0

f

shows that this latter process with index

from the time

I

Y, where v 'II'

y

0

< T ; W) 0 x

-

= P-I

"49J or

-v when reversed

A(T that it hits zero is a BES(V) started at o) killed at the time L = A(T) that it last hits y (see

Remark (4.2) (ii) below).

-

t 0-2 At = 0 Xs ds, the

in (I,m) is time changed by the additive functional result is a Bessel process with index

°< t

°

an4

(3.3) and

291

In section 8 we apply Watanabe's time inversion theorem to obtain the distributions of T

for a

= inf{t

y

BES(Jl,o)

Hannnersley

process

[:9J

R. In particular, the fact. noted by both

and Ismail and Kelker

[25], that

of the inverse of a ganma variable with index implies that

T y

for a

BES(j.J,O)

V

is the distribution 2 and scale y /2.

has this gamma distribution. We also

encounter an infinitely divisible distribution discovered in a different context by Feller

[9].

Section 9 is devoted to the probabilistic interpretation of certain ratios of Bessel functions studied

by

[24J

and

and Kelker

[26J

we give new proofs and extensions of many of their results.

a,v > 0

In particuldr, we consider the functions of (1. n)

C.)

1

Iv ( Iii)

.;a

IV-I (! O. For =t 5-

and a

BES(v)

from

[sO.

started at

denote the law on

of

v

by

is the following Proposition. which is a slight

refinement of Lemme (4.5) of

Proposition (2.1)

Let

[59.

a > 0,

V

> 0

and let

T be an

time such that EO TV / 2 < co. a

(2.a)

Then pV (T < co) ..

(2.b)

(2.0)

(n, F=)

pV. We recall now a number of basic results x The key result for comparison of BES(v) processes with

different indices

x

F .. cr{R • s > O}. .. s-

a

on

F

=T+) dpo a

I. and

Rr Yexp(-

.. ( ;-

1

-

2

V

2

J:

2 dslR ).

s

(

t)

stopping

294

Remarks (2.2) I) The probabilities

for

0

Watanabe

[42J

and

o

pV are mutually singular on 0

v, because

with

shows that the

(3.3) (i) of Shiga and and BES(V)

processes escape from

zero at different rates. 2) Similarly, for

0

are mutually singular on

F(

with

p

+v

the laws

= t,oo

) : cr(Ru ,u > t). This follows from the -

For

T bounded this is just a restatement

previous remark, by time inversion (see theorem (5.5)

FToof of the proposition: of Lemme (4.5) in po martingale a

defined by

t

LV., (Rt/a)V t and observe that

v

(L t "T)

below).

T satisfying (2.a), consider the

To pass to

LV

pll and p V a a

exp(- -I V2 2

r 0

2

ds/R ), s

is uniformly integrable. Indeed

v

v

sup L < sup (R la) , t 0

(2.f) on

where Conditioning on pA and a (2.g)

a

Rr

now shows that the distributions on l{+ of

Rr

under

are mutually absolutely continuous with density A P

dr)

P a (RTE:

dr)

:

=

(

)

r

EaLexp (­

I

2

2 v cT)IRr = r

]



On the other hand, from Molchanov [37J ('H.e also Kent [3IJ) we know that the BES(v) process has transition density (2.h)

296

By comparison of the two formulae

one immediately obtains the result

of tiheoreme (4.?J in [51J. namely for r;

t z:«)

I

1

(

0

] =I At(ar)

2 C ) Rt=r t

/ I Wt' (ar)

By a similar application of Proposition (2.1), the formula of Kent

[3U

for the Laplace transform of the hitting time

of

BES(v)

develc?s into the following joint transform of

which was given as theol'eme

Proposition

(2.3) :

(2.j)

a

in [51J :

(4.10)

S.b > O.

For

expr-

1.

L: 2

\)2

Tb and C(Tb) .

C(Tb ) -

1

2"

c:e = K

2

a

for

jbJ Ji (bS) -rab < a, ce.. I

(as)

TJ

A

a < b. In

particular

(2.k) where

E:

+ 1

if

b < a,

E:

=-

1

for

a < b.

From the formula (2.j) it is eesy to see that the Hartman laws with transforms(l.c) and (l.d) can be described as the distributions of C(Tb) for a BES(O) procesr started at a and conditioned to hit another level b before an independent exponentially distributed random time. We return to this point in Section 4 after first considering this kind of conditioning operation in a slightly more general setting.

297 However, we feel that, since our Cameron-l1artin-Girsanov type

(2.1) is one of the keys to our results, we ought to give another simple application of it, before passing to (perhaps) less standard manipulations later (see section 4 for Indeed, we now show how

formulae

(&7J)

may be deduced from

Proposition (2.1). Let

EM .

(Bt't .2::0) be a

r = Ix I, e = x/r, R t problem of calculating

Ed • where

IB t I,

8

t

d

2, starting at

x;

O. Put

and consider for example the

B/R t •

(2.l) where

T TaA T is a b is the first time R hits a or b, and spherical harmonic of degree n. By the skew-product decomposition of

(see Ito - Mc Kean [28J, p. 270), one has, for (2.m)

E(S.Q,(8 ) n t

C

t

IRu ,u

> 0) = s.Q,(e) expC

-

n

]lr ErLexp(21

(2.n)

A=

t > 0 :

i- n(n+d-2)C tJ\

is the clock defined in (2.d).

On the other hand, from

where

\:

X

(]l

2

(2.1) we have that for V

2 C T

1

s 2 T) ;

R.r = a]

2 1/ + v) 2 , and we hope the reader will forgive

us for using

the same notation for the co-ordinate process R as for R = IBI. Thus, ]l = (d-2)/2 and v 2 = n 2 + n(d-2) in (2.m), it emerges that the

taking

expectation (2.Z) is identical to (2.0)

where

A

(4-2)/2 + n.

298 Finally, this last

expectation can be calculated from the kno\Yn Laplace A

transforms of

T and T under P by a routine application of the strong a r b Harkov property (see Ito - Hc Kean [28J p , 30), and it is found to be

(2.p)

la

'r-)

A

IA(bs) KA(rs) - IA(rs) KA(bs) I (bs) K (as) A A

Substituting (2.p) for the

pA r

I (as) K (b s ) . A A

expectation in

(21.0)

now yields the

formula (9) of Wendel [47J, and we leave it to the reader to check that the other formulae of Wer.del

be obtained in exactly the same way.

299

3.

DIFFUSIONS. In this aection let {x ,0 < t < t -

r; < -

00

;

P ,xE:(A,B)} x

be a regular diffusion on a sub-interval

(A,B)

of

[-oo,ooJ. To avoid

unnecessary complications, we assume that

(3.a)

= inf{t

r;

>

°:X

t-

= A or

B},

so the process is killed when it reaches either boundary. Given

a > 0,

we wish to record some basic results concerning the diffusions xe (A.B)} and

xE(A,B)}

diffusion at a constant rate hit

B in the t

obtained by first killing the original

a. then conditioning this killed process to

case, and to hit

A in the -I-

case. Since the original

process may never hit these boundaries. as for example in the application to Bessel processes which we have in mind, this conditioning is to be understood in the sense of Doob

r 6]

and William8

[3.9J. Following Hilliad' s

description of this operation with no killing (i.e. a

[!.9],

of

= 0)

in section 2

we take

pat to be defined by the requi rement that for each x x < b < B. the process X run up to the time T has the same law under b pat as it does under P conditional on (T < Va)' where Va is an x x b exponentially distributed killing time with rate

Putting

m

cr(Xs,O dpat

(3.b)

_It_

dPx

=e

a

(x,y)

independent of

t), this is just to say that for

S

-or b

I

¢", (x,b)

'"

where (3.e)

a

= Ex

on

X.

x < b < B

b

e-aTy.

a. 0, e-aTy should be interpreted as the indicator of the event (T y < (0). Note that ¢a(x,y) > 0 for all a 0, x,y E.(A,B) by the

For

assumption that

X is regular.

300

Before going further, we recall some well known facts concerning which may be found for example in either Take a point

xot!; I

Ito

¢a(X,y),

and tolc Kean [28J or Breiman

[3 J.

and define

ts.a:

y < x -

• J/¢ (x ,y),

a

0

0

y > x o'

8i nce the identi ty (3.e)

is valid whenever

y

x

z, one gets :

(3·f)

which shows that the choice of reference point

affects ¢at only by o a constant factor. Similarly there is a function ¢a+ which gives the

analog of (3.f) for

x > y. These functions ¢at

X

and ¢a+

may be determined

as solutions subject to appropriate boundary conditicns of the equation (3.g) where

(G-a) ¢ = 0,

G

is the generator of the diffusion.

Proposition

(3.1) : Let

T be an

time,

drat x

on

x

ProOf: For

f\(T < 1:;)

T Tb, this follows from (J.b) after conditioning on using (3·f) and the strong Harkov property. For general T consider T AT let b,

b

tend to

Band use (J.a). 0

301

It follows easily from the above proposition that the prObabilities {p

define a new diffusion process which is transient with

x

is.n: except if

a

=0

and the original diffusion

{Px}

is recurrent, when

pot • p • x x pat x

Clearly, the probability all

x,

< 00)

is either 1 for all

x or 0

for

Since

(3.i)

Eat x

= lim Eat e-

STb

b+B x

at motion hits B in finite time a.s. iff the limit lim $ (b) $ (b) is strictly positive for some (or equivalently b+B at a+S,t' nll) S > o. the

I

Let

Pt(x,dy)

Then from

be the transition function of the original diffusion. (3.1), it is plain that the

at

diffusion has

transition function

(3.j) A formal calculation based on (3.j) shows that the gene ra toc d:xt must be

Gat

(3.k)

=

and in particular if d

2

d

G = a(x) ---2 + b(x) --, dx dx a further calculation using (3.g) reveals that at d (3.1.) G = G + 2 a(x) ¢at(x) dx' where

=

¢at· As we shall not make any use of these formulae foz

generators in what follows, we shall not attempt a careful justification, but rather refer the reader to Kunita

[33J

and Meyer

are deftly handled in a much more general context.

[3{] ,

where such matters

302

Of course, after some obvious substitutions such as everything

above applies equally well to the

conditioning

X killed at rate

a

at

for ¢at'

process obtained by

to hit the lower boundary point

A

instead of the upper boundary point B. As the reader can easily verify, we have

Proposition (3.2) : If either the the result is the

(a + B)t

In particular, taking

or

at

process is conditioned.

St,

process.

B = 0,

we see that the

at and

are dual in the sense of section 2.5 of Williams

processes

As a consequence,

either process can be presented as a time reversal of the other. To be precise, for

y( (A,B). let

(3.m)

L

Y

sup{t

y}.

Then we have

Taeorem (3.3) Fix

>

o.

theorem (2.5))

(William!:>

Suppose that the

at

process hits

A in finite time with

probability one. Then A is an entrance point for the y

(A, B)

at

process, and for. each

the proces ses {X(s-t). 0 < t

{X(t),O < t < Ly

are identical in law.

Remark : Williams

states this theorem in the case

a

= 0,

starting from

a process satisfying hypotheses which make it identical to its own Ot process, and with the roles of

A and B reversed.

303

However the apparent extension above to a general superficial one. by

e

(3.2) with

e

a > 0

is only a

O. Williams proved his

theorem by first establishing a special case and then arguing that the result could be

to the general case by the method of time

substitution. The result can also be deduced from the time reversal theorem of Nagasawa [33J. via the work of Sharpe

[41J.

The connection wi th Sharpe's work is

easily made after noting that

(3.n) serveo as a scale function for the

at

process. with

s(B-)

=0

and

s(A+) = co.

The reader should be well prepared by now for the conditioned Bessel processes of the next section. But lest our change of hitting rate from

a to

02 , and our use of

the tenn"drift" for 0 in that section seem mysterious. we recommend the following trivial exercise

Exercise (3.4) : Show that. for Brownian motion 15 > 0, i)

e

ii)

tbe} 02t

iii)

changing

iv)

for +

v) (Hint

t to

EM with drift + 0

+ above changes

BH with drift

Y. the

-!-

+ to - ;

02t

the recipe iii) applies to iv) too. use (3.2).

on the line with zero drift.

+ox

process is

/y2 + 62

(BM)

process is

BM with drift

304 To conclude this section, we record the following result, which will not be required

the end of section 4.

Given a random time

= O{Ft(t

L, define

< L), FtC [t,t

OJ,

and let L be as in (3.m). y

Theorem (0.5) :

that the regular diffusion

meaning that for dpat x dp x

is.«)

(3.0)

= c(x,y,a)e

-aL y

=

I. Then ----

on

=

is transient,

x

()(Ly > 0),

Y

c(x,y,a)

Proof: For

P (L < 00) x y

x,yE (A, B) ,

-

{p }

where

-aL 0) / E e x y x

-aL Y (L

y

> 0)

t = 0 and F Q above and t" by the regularity and transience of {p}.

where (J.q) is obtained by taking c(x,y ,ex) E' (0,00)

= 0)

pat ' ht x a.s., an d on t h e r1g so it follows that (J.n) holds with

btB

(J.q)

) pabt(L y

-aL b y)

-a(Tb-L b) y I Lyb > 0)

b t B. On the left we have

L btL ,

Y

Px(e

y

e

x

305

Finally, to turn (3.q) into (3.0) use (3.f) and the obvious formulae (3.'1')

x

5.. y

¢a (x,y) ¢a (y,x), (3.8)

Remark

E

x

(3.6) :

e

If

-aL

y (L

¢ (x,y) E yay > 0)

=0

e

-aL

x > y.

y

A is an entrance point for the

as will be the

case in our applications to Bessel processes, the Laplace transform of

L

appearing in (3.0) above can be computed very easily, since -aL

(3. t )

Y

-aLy

y

while by Williams's time reversal (3.5) (3.u)

whence

ts.»:

E e

-aL Y

y

I ¢ (y,a)] I [lim ¢ (a,y)l.

:[lim ¢ (y,a)

a+A

a

a+A a

0

.J

As will become clearer in Section 9, it is interesting to ask what can be said along the lines of Theorem (3.5)

the basic diffusion

is recurrent. To focus on the most important case, fix the probabilities pat on _ for a > o. y

Note that

y

y

is

for

a > 0,

o

for a

a,S> 0, from (3.8) and (3.5) we have

is,»

c(a,S) e

-(8-a)L

y

on

-' Y

where at c(a,S) : c (y,y,S) and, as a consequence, for

I

a,S,Y > 0

c(a,Y) : c(a,S) c(S,Y).

IE

at y

e

-(S-a)L

y,

x

y > A and consider

y

pat(D < L < 00)

{p}

O. Still, for

306

Our analogue of Theorem (3.5) for this recurrent case is

Theorem (3.6) : Suppose

{p } is recurrent. x

y > A. there is a strictly positive function

For each

cr-finite measure

My

such that H (L

Y Y

00)

a

a

0

y

_'

a

f (a) y

and a

each defined uniquely up to constant multiples.

and for every

a > 0

dpat -at y - L .. f (a) e y

O. One can take

Then for

f

y

_. for every

(a) .. t/c(a,Y). a> O.

y

(3.x/7.)

M (A) .. c(a,y) Eat(e Y Y

(3.xb)

aL y

A)

.. lim c(a.y) pat(A). y

a4()

Proof: The fact that (3.xa) defines a measure which does not depend on a is immediate from (3.w). The rest of the assertions follow at once, using -aL M (A) .. lim M (A e Y) for (3.xb). y

o-o y

Remark (3.7) : It follows from Proposition (3.1) that for an arbitrary diffusion

(P x),

and for any

a

the Law

BR(x,y. t)

of the bridge obtained

given X .. x and X a y 0 t is the same for either the at. ai. or original process. As a consequence,

4S

the conditional distribution of

0,

(X.O < S

-

S

< t)

-

at process at time be described as follows : under M , y

using the last exit decomposition of the a-finite measure Hy

y' the L has y

L

a-finite distribution

M (L Y

Y

dt)-f (a)-t eat pat (L Y

Y

e

Y

dt)

for any a > 0, and, conditional on Ly a t, the process (Xs,O 5 t) is a BR(y.y.t). For an even simpler description of M in terms of local time y at y, see Remark (3.9) below.

307

EXample (3.8) : For

0, let ll) 0 ; W

(Xt' t

be a Brownian motion with drift

started at zero, and let

sup{t : X = a}. By the method of time inversion used in Section 5, t one finds easily that L has a gamma distribution, with

L

(1,

1 02

';(e-

"7" f>

L) = (I +

and

2

1

L)- .,.

i

2 t/2

e

since

+

is the

from

(3.6) that the M(A)

= 11

-I

11 E [exp(z L)

_

; AJ

M governs

(3.9) :

=I

1

dt,

M(LEdt) = (2trt)

(Xs'O

2

s < t)

as a

bridge.

that in the last example we have My(LyEdt)=pt(y,y)dt,

(3.y)

where

is the transition density of the diffusion. In fact this

Pt(x,y)

holds quite generally, as a result of the following description

formula

M, which the reader can easily verify using (3.1). UnderM y

local time

100

at the point

Lebesgue measure on (X ,0 < t < L ) t Y

Tu

defined by

the nice constant is obtained by taking y

in (3.xa). Thus

of

(see (3.4), one finds

W

a-finite measure on

does not depend on

and given L = t,

O

process obtained from

= infit

y

(0,00). and conditional on

: 100 = u}. Thus, the M

y

M (0 < L < t) -

y-

a

0

100 = u

(X ,0 < t < T t

-

-

u

distribution of

the process

; P ), where y

L

y

is the potential

0), up to a constant c > 0, whence,

(Tu'U

cE [I(T Y

the total

has distribution which is a multiple of

has the same law as

measure of the subordinator,

Y

y

< t)dt

u-

= cEy

[1(1 0

t

>U) dU

= cEy

308

If

My

and

(2 t,t

0)

are appropriately normalised this leads to (3.y)

for any diffusion with sufficiently regular transitton function -see e.g. Getoor of

My

D4J,

and (6.d) below. We note that this last description

makes sense with

with arbitrary state

y

a recurrent point for a strong Markov process

309

4. CONDITIONED BESSEL PROCES5ES.

v,o

For from the

BES(v)

processes obtained

diffusion of Section 2. From

(2.3), it is

0 > 0, x > 0, one can take

plain that for (4.at)

+02t and +

> 0, consider now the

2 (x)

¢IV

i-

0 t

(4.a1)

2 (x) .. x

-V

K (ox), V

and V

(4.bt)

¢lOt (x) .. 1,

(4.M)

¢1

where

V

o0}(x)

.. x

-2v

x > 0. The results of the last section reveal that for

BES(v)

t

diffusion conditioned

02 t

to be referred to as course

BES(V,O)

is just

0 >

is given for

°

v 0

(4.ot)

the

with infinite

[0,00)

BES(v,o). Of

the transition density

of

BES(V,O)

by

Pt' (x,y)

which shows that our

°

BES(v).

and (3.j)

From (2. h) ,

a diffusion on

BES(v,o)t, or simply

0 >

yt

-1

BES (v, 0)

I (ox)

v

-]

2

2

2 2

I (oy) I (xy/t) exp -(x +y +0 t )!2t,

v

V

is a process introduced by Hatanabe [46J, and

called by him a Bessel diffusion £rocess in the wide sense with index a .. 2v + 2 is the "dimension", and c '" 0 2;2.

(a,c) ,

where

Remarks (4. 1)

(i)

Watanabe allows his

which corresponds to be extended to

V

> -

a

to be any strictly positive nunmer,

v> - I. The above definition of

if the boundary point

0

of

BES(V,o) BES(v)

can also

is taken to

be reflecting, which completes the correspondence with Watanabe, but the reader is warned that because the assumption (J.a) is no longer satisfied, the results of section 3 must be reinterpreted with some care to cover this case.

310

(ii)

A further extension of the definition of

nothing new. Because

BES(V), it follows from (4.2) (ii) below that

and

to

V

0

and

8 >0

this process rear-hes

Therefore the

process started at

Williams theorem (3.3) and run to time

0

x

Lx. For this reason, results for

playa dominant role.

v

=6

= 0, for all

in finite time and dies

as the time reversal of a

be reexpressed in terms of

call it, there.

can be described via EES(v,6)

started at can readily

BES(V,O). and it is this process which will

0

311

Rerrm>k (4.2) :

For the sake of completeness, we record the following facts about BES(v,8H. (i)

The

version of formula (4.0) has

K instead of

I

in the

first two Bessel functions only. (ii) In the

case of (4.0), (x/y)v

for

and (S.Z),

these two factors. By inspection of BES(-v)

should be

is just

killed when it hits zero, a fact which is implicit in Sharpe

(iii)The

version of (4.d) has

K instead of

I

everywhere, and

a factor of - 1 in (4.dS). Thus from (4.k) below, the extra drift term in this case increases from (iv)

is

to - 8 as

BM \vith drift

x increases from

0 to

- 8 killed when it hits zero,

a fact which is intimately related to remarkable properties of

BES(t,8)

described in [4Q1 and [49]. For

8 > 0, v,x

on the space

0, let

C(R+,R+). and let

the reader that the "8"

v 8

Px'

x

be the law of BES(v,8) correspond to

refers to killing at rate

we should now declare that

BES(v,8)+

t

started at x Qe remind

8 2• Strictly speaking

is absorbed rather than killed on

reaching 0, to keep the trajectory in COR+JR+), but this won't ever be impor.tant. By a straightforward

application of Proposition (S.l), we obtain

the following extension of Proposition (2.3) to Bessel processes with drift :

312

Theorem (4.3)

x.a,r > o. v

Let

_

(1.e+)

where

exp [- '2 a

Iv(ar)

2

t

!£e('YX)

B TrJ = I ( 8x) \i£e(yr) v + ( 2 ) 1/ 2, and .;;f?= I. if x < r

C(Tr) -

e = (i

y =

if

O.

2

!

K,

x > r,

The corresponding formula (4.e+) has

K substituted for

in the first

I

ratio of Bessel functions only. By Williams time reversal. for

r < x, the

expectation on the left side of (4.ei) is identical to exp r, L:

RemaPk

+i

C(L ,L ) -

r

x

t

2

6

(L

x - Lr

)J

(4.4) :

We note from (4.et) the formula

va

(4·f)

P'

x

(T

r

< co)

= Hv.s ' (x)

».s

/ H • (r), r < x ,

vlhere

(4.g) a result which is also obvious from (3.n) and (4.a).

a Thus - HV'(x)

serves as a scale function for

J:

expression (4.h)

y

BES(v.a)t. The alternative

du / U(I (Ou» 2, v

which is the equivalent of forii1Ula (2.5) in Watanabe [!16j. is a simple consequence of the classical fOITaula for the Wronskian : Iv(z)] = z-I

From well known asycptotics of Bessel functions which are displayed in Section lit one can now obtain the asymptotics of (4.et) when and those of

when

r -+- 0

or



r -+- 00

or

x-+- 0,

0:>.

In particular, one obtains the following formulae. the first

of which

imply the interpretations (1. h) and (l.i.) of the Hartlz:!an laws. and the third of which is equivalent to a result of Kent by virtue of

CopoZZary (5.6) below.

([31J.

theorem (4.1)),

313

Co!'oUOX'!J (4.5) :

EV, 0

(4.i)

exp [;

0

EV'o

t a?

exPti- a

0

2

C(Ty , 00)1 .. 1 C(L

y

0:

/ IV (oy) ,

e(OY)

K (oy) / Ke(OY),

V

e .. (V2 + a 2 ) 1/ 2

where

t t exp -

J

I

s\

(6Y)

(4.j)

V' o Vl2 1 S2 T " I v (yy) (1 + E0 exp - 2" y 2 ' 0 V

(4.jll)

E'

V 0 o

2 2] 1. S L .. - - - (I + lL)V/2 ' 2 Y Kv(OY) 02

y .. (0 2 + V2)1/ 2 •

Proof:

Proceed thus from Theo!'em (4.3).

(i)

In (et) put

(ill!) In

(j)

put

In (et) put

x .. y. 6 .. 0 r .. Y. 8 .. 0

.::

{4.k}

I

o.

and K

-\l:ll

and let

x

00,

-+ co,

x ... O. r ... O.

define

(x)" I (x) / I (x) ; K V

We note that on putting

lJ:V

and let

x .. Y, a .. 0

(x)" K" (x) / Kv (x), x > O. >-'

the formulae (4.i) and (4.i_) above make obvious

the result of Hartman and Watson I

r .....

and let

r .. y. a = 0

(j:r:) In {e+;w;} put

For

and let

• IToposition 7.1, th3t for

are continuous distribution functions on

It now emerges that for fixed 0 > 0 and x > 0, the o for pll• 0 are mutually absolutely continuous. x To be precise, we have

both

(0,00). laws

314

Theorem (4.6)

Let

8,x > 0,

O.

(4."l)

on

and for every

(!t+)

stoP?ing time

!oo'

T,

(4.m) Note

on On

(T

= (0),

a

1

by convention.

Proof: It is enough to concider the case For bounded stopping times

T

and prove (4.m).

the ref.ult follows at once from

and (3.1). To ey.tend to unbounded expression above. Since

> v

(Mt,t

T 0)

let

denote the right hand

is an

under

it only remains to show that this martingale is uniformly integrable, or, what is the same, that its almost sure limit as expectation equal to

t

4

00

has

1. But this is immediate from (4.i)

mentioned above that

increases to

as

z

4

pV.8 x

and the fact

co,

Com nary (4. 7)

Let

Z > 0

be an

random variable. For fixed

x,8 > O.

the function V

v , 8 Z, v > 0

E

4

x

is right continuous, and continuous except possibly for a jump at VD inf{v : Ev,8 Z < co}. X

from

co

315

Proof: Use (4.6), the continuity of

I (y). and the monotone and u

dominated convergence theorems. Note

0 DOor x· O.

The above result is clearly false if either

T. 00, condition on f L

Proof: Starting from (4.6) for exit decomposition at time

Corollary (4.9) : For

x

together with (4.i-).

> 0,

()( D

L y

)ll-V

_. and use the last

"I

r +(u 2-v 2)C L 1

exp[

Proof: This results from (4.8) on letting 0 passage to the limit being justified by (3.5).

Y

0, using (13.£),

the

316

5. n:E RADIAL AND ANGULAR PARTS OF BROWNII\N MOTION WITH DRIFT. This section offers two different approaches to

Rd

BN with drift in

and its decouposition into radial and angular parts, using firstly the

Cameron - Hartin formula, and secondly tiee inversion, to transform to the more familiar case with no drift.

D. Williams seems to have initiated the use of the

- Martin

(Clf) Eorraul.a to ca l.cul a r a distributions associated with the radial and angular parts of EM with drift (cf : the end of Kent's paper [31]). The method

Ls also

(D'O, [32J,

used more or less explicitly in a number of recent papers

[48})

but in none of these papers is the argument

developed to its fullest extent. Fix an integer

d

2

I, and for

0

0, let

the canonical realisation of Brownian motion in R with a constant drift

=

....

0 of magnitude

....

a =101

the unit sphere in Rd. Thus

Bt(W) = w(t), =a(Bs'O 2 s 2 tl. {Bt,t d R starting at the origin, and pO is the

....

(Bt + to,t time

0). According to the

d

a;

p8}

be

started at the origin

in the direction

n=

C(R+ ,Rd),

0 ; po}

po

is standard

PM in

distribution of

CM formula, for any

stopping

T,

(5.a) where or

(

,

)

is the inner product in

Rd . (See e.g. McKean [29J p.97

Freedman [llJ,§l.ll). The applications of the 01 formula below hinge largely on the product

form of the Radon - Nikodym derivative, which can be exploited by virtue of the following general (and trivial)

317

Lemma (5.1) : Let

(n,V,

P

Q be probabilities on a measurable space

and

with

where

G

>

(i)

dP

°

= GH

is

For

Z

= =

%

and:

0, Q a.s.,

/

and

P-independent, they are also

Q-independent,

P(G) P(H) =1,

G/PG on

=

0, let

k

at

H/PH

= U(d8)

vM(k,d6)

(S.b) U

= vM(O)

on

1:e.

be the von Mises distribution on

vM(k)

concentration parameter

h were

..

is 0

H

Sd-l

centered

k. That is,

Cd(k)

-I

....

exp k(6,u),

, th ' f orm pro b a b 1i Li1ty on 1S e un1

Sd-I , and

Cd(k)

is the

normalising constant (S. (1)

Cd(k)

(5.a2) where

V

=

= fU(d6)

exp

=

(k/2)-V Iv(k),

r(V+I)

(d-2)/2, and the formula (5.02) will be later derived in (5.4) (iv).

Starting from the easy case and the CM formula which is implici t in

[4cD.

Proposition (S.2) : Let 1

T be an

0T given

'R T

i) ( ' YV

.£!!

0 = 0, using part (i) of the Lemma above

easily obtains the following proposition.

)

t

R =

Ist I. jRt = a(R s ,0 < s < --

stopping time. Then. the

(T < (0)

is

t), 6

t

=

&t/Rt • and

. P6 cond1tional law of

318

Now for pO

T r

= r}.

inf{t : R t

it is obvious by symmetry that under

the uniformly distributed angle

radial process for all

(R.O < t < T) t

-

-

8

is independent of the stopped

Tr

:R T .

generating

r

Moreover,

r

/> (T r

< co) .. 1

0, r > O.

0

Thus part (ii) of the Lemma and the CM formula (S.a) imply Pr>oposition (5.3) : Let

where

{Bt,t

origin,

Rt

(i)

p6"}

0 ;

=

IBtl.

is a

R1

8

The hitting angle

The

(ii)

p8

with drift

inf{t : R .. r}, t

in

starting at the

and the radial process up to time

T

distribution of

8

T

vM(or}.

is

(R ,0 < t < T ) t

-

r

under

po

is identical

conditional on

Uo is an exponentielly distributed time with rate Po

Tr •

r

to the distribution of the same process under

which is

R

p8

(iii) The distribution of

(Tr < Ud),

6"

T r

8 t .. Bt/R t•

t < T ) , are r

(Rt,O

r > 0, and let

+ 02 •

independent of this process.

Remarks (5.4) : The first four remarks refer to the correspondingly numbered assertions above.

Stern

for

(i)

This extends independence results to be found in Kent

(43).

and Wendel

(ii)

This may be found in Kent

GS].

But. see (v) below for a further extension.

d - 2. The joint distribution of

obtained by Reuter (see

5OJ).

I'IJ, and in oT and Tr r

Gordan and Hudson

[171

in this case was first

319

(iii) An immediate consequence of this is the result of (Rt.O

t
O,

(vii) By a further application of (S.l) (i) to (S.a), for

cs.eu

the pt conditional law of is identical to

(5.e2)

the

po

­

conditional law of

On the other hand, for decomposition of BM on Sd­l

­

d

d 8M in R

e

r

t

where Uo is exponential with rate (B ,0 < t < T) under pO. t

T IB r) T

(Bt'0 2. t

t

2

Tr)le

02

T

r

=

e,

Tr < U ' o

independent of

r

2

one can start from the classical skew­product

with no drift, use the reversibility of

as in the discussion of "spinning" in It'O ­ McKean [28J,

section 7.17 to argue that under

po

for each

r

>

0,

321

Bt •

(5.!) where

is a

1l

r

0) is BESlvl (v) (a subscript is now being used to indicate the starting position of a process). Then, the identification is a consequence 0)

as

BES

of the following remarkable result, which will be the key to several further developments. Theorem (5.5) : (Watanabe For all

V

and only if

> - I,

y,6

[.46].

theorem (2.1».

0, a process

(t U(l/t),t > 0) is a

(U(t),t> 0)

BES

i!-!

BES

y(v,6)

if

6(V,y).

Watanabe's time inversion (5.5) and the Pythagorean property of the BES(V)

family, discovered by Shiga and Watanabe

Corollary (5.6) : Let an independent (5.j) BES

o

(Xt,t

0)

where

be a

imply the following

BESo(A,a), and let

> - I,

a,e

(Yt,t

0)

O. Then the process

be

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0';: 0, \I > - 1/2, if

In particular, for (Be t ,;: 0)

is a

BMo

process in (5.jJ is a

-

and

It]

X t

• IB t

+ otl

whete

is a BES (\I -

(Yet t ,;: 0)

--

0

0 >0

and

then the

2

BES (\1,0).

--

0

This last presentation of

BESo(\I,O)

underlies the work of Kent

Proof: Let At = t X(l/t),

Bt - t Y(l/t). By Watanabe's inversion, A and B are independent BES (A) and 2) processes. Now, by the Pythagorean property of [42J, + B 112 is a BESy(\I) with starting place y = (a 2 + s2) 1/ 2 and index \I = A + + (which corresponds to adding the dimensions). Inverting once more yields the desired conclusion. We

how

Watanabe's time inversion can be used to obtain a very simple description of Bessel bridges. Somewhat more generally, consider a family of diffusions d indexed by a parameter YES in such a way that on a subset S of It if

pX

governs the co-ordinate process

starting at

0, then the laws

Inversion Hypothesis (sX(I/ s) , s

EXample 1:

>

(S.

7). For

(Xt,t,;: 0)

{PX,y,OES}

is pO t., h ! y' we ave d S _It and governs

pX

y-diffusion

satisfy the

y,o ,,-S, the

0)

as the

distribution of

examples in mind: E1

with drift vector y

started at

Then (5.7) is a variant of the familar time inversion property of

Example 2:

S =It+

and

pX

governs

BESo(V,y), where

V>-

O.

BM. is fixed.

Then (5.7) amounts to Watanabe's time inversion. For such a family of diffusions there is an extremely simple description of the bridges obtained by conditioning the two ends of the sample path over a fixed time interval :

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{prJ

Theorem (S.8) : Let

be a family of diffusions on

S

satisfying the

inversion hypothesis (S. 7). Let

y, tiE s. Then, the processes

t > 0,

o 0

For

y

(6.e) (ii)

x

the formula (6.e) cefines an infinitely divisible

probability dist=ibution on : (i)

x > y, the distribution defined by (e.e) on

For

If

(0,00)

is

sub-probability with total mass given by (B.a).

an infinitely divisible (ii)

(0,00).

is an entrance point for the diffusion, simple formulae

0

for the Laplace transform of the law (B.e) can be obtained from (3.v). on

r of the diffusion will coincide

(iii) In practice the 2 C (0, 00) with

=t

2 d d a(x) ---2 + b(x) dx' dx

Suppose simply that

a,bECOO(O,oo) , with

Y

hypo-ellipticity of y, a function 00 3 C on (0,00) such that

a> O. Then

dm

-)

(y),

hence = Pt(x,y) (s'a) (y),

and the formula (6.e) becomes

ie.«: )

exists, by the

p : (0,,,,,)3 3(t,x,y) .. pt(x,y), of class

In this case, one has dy =(s'a)

thb-e

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x > 0, Y > 0,

Pl>oo[ : For

P (L

x y

> 0,

t

< c) .. E [I - u (R

x

Y t

)J.

Put Mt " s(Rt)' and recall that for each x > 0, M is a Px-local martingale with continuous paths. One can thus apply the generalised Ito (or Tanaka) formula to the process H t uy(R t) .. (s(y» AI. (Az.t >

Accordin.g to this formula. if (see Ueyer

t

-

denotes the local time of

0)

M

at

Z

[35] Chapter VI ; II), the process (u (R ) I -- AS(y) t > 0) Y t 2 s(y) t • -

is a

P -martingale starting at u (x) which is square-integrable (it even x Y belongs to BMO - see [15J tMoreme 4, p , 334). It follows that P (0 < L

x

On

Y

< t) ..

l:ll

E

s(y)

x

AS(Y) t

the other hand, Ito - Mc Kean ([28] p , 175) show that for all 3

(t.x,y) 0) be the s right continuous inverse of a local time process

A for the point

y. Then

A(L ) = A(T )

Y

where process

(J

(J

A(Ly). But by Ito's excursion theory (see e s g , Heyer [36]) the

(A(,S)'O

2

s

2

(J

Py )

has the same law as a process

where

Y is a

random time independent of

and

(J

is an exponentially distributed

Y. Since the exponential law is infinitely

divisible, the conclusion is immediate.

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7. DISTRIBUTION OF LAST EXIT TIMES FOR In this section we record explicit formulae for the distribution of L

sup{t : R • y}

Y

when

(Rt,t

t

distribution of From (6.e

l

)

is a

0 ;

Ly

BES

y > O. and consider also the joint

x(v.8).

and the clock

C(L ) '

y

and the formulae (4.g) and (4.k) for the scale function of

BES(v.8), for all

v.x.o

O.

(l.a)

where

tS .. O.

.. y/v.

The formulae below for densities follow immediately from (?a) and the formulae (2.h) and (4.a) for the transition density of

BES(v.8). The

corresponding formulae for the Laplace transforms can either be derived

J:

from the density expressions using the well known formula

tr.»

exp(-

t (it)

.. 2y (y/x) v Iv[a.(xAY)]

or they can be obtained using (3.v). Notice that the total mass of the law of

Ly

on

(0. 00 )

can in each case be obtained by setting

the formula for the Laplace transform. Formula as

and is included only for the sake of completeness. 0,> O. x> O. v

(?a)

v

tS

P , (L Edt) .. x Y

0 :

dt Iv(xy/t) exp(- (x 2+y2+82 t2)/2t] 2t I

v(8x)

K v(8y)

ex. ..

0

in

was obtained earlier

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a > 0,

x

= 0,

\I

0 :

(7.d) 2t (at) \I K)ay)

(7. 'j)

Case

(7.e)

0 = 0, x > 0, \I > 0

J

r (x 2 +y 2 )/2t P \I (L E.dt) '" dt(\I/t) (y/x) \I I,,(xy/t) eXPLx Y v

Finally, the case

0 '" 0, x

= 0,

\I > 0

can be obtained from either the last

x tend to 0, or the previous case by letting zero. The result is the formulae (l.k) and (l.l) of Getoor.

case by letting

'V

'V

From the Laplace transforms (7.c) and (7.e)

Corollaries (4.8) and (4.9) for change of law on

Ty ' valid for all

E\I,a{exp[_

x

tend to

and the formulae of _, we now obtain y

of FToposition (2.3) and Theorem (4.3) with

analogues of the instead of

0

\I

+1)2C(L y ) - t

0, X > 0 :

S2 L y

J ; Ly

> O}

Ie [y(x..,y») r 0

if

0 = O.

Kv 0) y y C(o) y

oy.

Hartman law with parameter

given

(0

y

d

iastead of

given

(a

Y

Ly '

> 0),

is just the first

> 0)

Obviously when

Ty

= 2v

+ 2

is an integer

one can go further and express these results in terms of the radial and d, angular parts of a inn but we leave this to the reader. From the results of the previous section, we obtain explicit formulae for both the density and the Laplace transform of identity in law of

(B.b)

1

and L , we have for all y

y



From

v,x,a

0,

v,x dt v,o r. ]-1 , Po (TyEdt) = t 2 PI It (x,y) LG(o,y)

t

T-

y

where here again, and in the formulae below, and

T

(7.a)

and the

> 0,

0 is the starting point

the drift. From (B.b) and (4.0), we obtain, in the

x

0 > 0, x > 0

dt Iv(xyt)

(B.c)

i- [(x 2+y2) t

+o2/t])

2t Iv(ax) Kv(OI)

v

(B • if)

where

E' o a

Xl,

a,,(x,y)

2

exp(- TAT y) = and

b"

IV(oa,,) Kv(Ob,,) Iv(ox) Kv(OY)

= b,,(x,y)

,,= x 2 + y2 +" 2 ,

2 + b2 a"

are defined by the requirements

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or, to be more explicit

To derive

a>."

t

[(x+y)2 +

>.2flz -

t

[(x_y)2 + >.2)

b>. ..

t

[(x+y)2 + >.2J

lIz -

t

(x_y)2 +

>.2J

"». 1/z.

from (8.0) one uses the following identity, valid for

o

< a b < which results from (7.b) after substituting using (2.h). and making the change of variable u" lIt

x = a, y = b, E = 0,

The derivation of the corresponding formulae in the remaining cases is straightforward. One obtains 0, x =

° dt (y c) v eXPt

te.a)

Case

where

{j

1-

(it +

2t (j'V K ( 0, x = 0 the infinite divisibility of

and (8.'!) , which is the exhibit the remarkable fact that the Po distribution of T Y and the pv,y distribution convolution of the pV distribution of T y o o (ii)

T y

is sean using \)

The infinitely divisible law (8.e) was encountered by

Feller [9] (see also [IOJ) in the study of first passage times for a continuous time random walk : for positive integers V the law (8.e) is the distribution of the first passage time to starting at zero with jumps of + 1 at rate at rate 2y2/(x2+y2)2.

V

of a compound Poisson process 2x2/(x2+y2)2

(iii) We do not kDow if the distribution of divisible for 0, x > o.

T

y

and jumps of - 1 is infinitely

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9. COMPLETELY MONOTONE FUNCTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH LAST EXIT TIMES OF BES(v) Our aim in this section is to explain how the complete monotonicity of certain ratios and products of Bessel functions,

of which were

studied by Ismail and Kelker [26], can be related to behaviour of Bessel diffusions prior to last exit times. Ismail and Kelker showed by purely analytic arguments that for

& > 0, there is an infinitely divisible probability distribution (0,00)

with Laplace transform in a > 0

v+

rev + 6 + 1) 26 I 6 ( /ci) ------';';"""-;;.....;:.-- = rev + I) (IcY:) 6 I V (lci)

(S.al)

and that as

[-ax

V > - I,

t , 6 on

V 6 l ' (dx),

e

0

v

v 6 + 00. 1 , 6 converges to the

1nw 1V

with Laplace transform ,-V

(9.a2)

(va)

Ir(v

where the identification of due to Kent @IJ. Here

T

y

i-ax = Joe

V,....

+ 1) 2

Iv(va)

1

V

is the hitting time of

as the y

V

(dx)

= EoV

BES (v) 0

12

exp(-aTy 2y ),

distribution of

for a

usual reflecting boundary condition at

1

(Ty/2y2)

is

process, and the

0 must be stipulated for

-1 < V < O.

Ismail and Kelker also proved that for v > 0, 6 > 0, Y > 0, there is an infinitely divisible probability distribution Kv , 6 on (0,00) with Laplace transform in a > 0 (9.bl)

and that as

_rev___-;;-_..;.v__ = [-a.x + 6) 2

6

K (/ci)

6

r (v) ( lii) K.v+6 (lei)

6 + 00, Kv,e with Laplace transform

0

e

K

V,6(d)

x ,

converges to the infinitely divisible law

KV

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00

(9.b2)

v

f° e

K V

v exp (- aL y), 2 y/2

K (dx) = E

0

where the idenfication of KV as the pV distribution of o

Ly 12y 2

is

made by Getoor's formula (l.l). In view of the obvious Laplace transform identities corresponding to the convolution identity ,Va ,v,S * , ,

(9.a)

and its companion with

,V+S,

V

> - I, S > 0,

instead of

K

"valid for

v > 0, these results

of Ismail and Kelker are equivalent to the assertion that for each

y >

°

there exist on some probability space two processes with independent increments

(9.d)

(Tv, y

V

and

> - I)

(LV,

V

y

> 0),

each with decreasing trajectories coming down from 00 to 0, such that for . t h e appropr1ate . 1 , v , and LVI 2y 2 has each V 1n range, TV I2y 2 h asaw law

V K • Then, taking simply

have distribution

,V,s .

y

y

y

a

1/12, the increment

TV - TV+S would Y Y

Note that because the trajectories have n finite limit at infinity but O V not at their start, this increment would be independent of T + but not y

of

TV, in contralt to the usual case of a process with independent y

increments starting at zero. It would be interesting to find a presentation of

BES (v) for varying o

even for all

V

in which such processes were embedded, (perhaps

y with independent increments in

(y,v)), as the results of

Ismail and Kelker would then follow immediately from those of Getoor and Kent. We do not know of any such representation, but in the course of our investigations,we shall provide probabilistic proofs of the existence of

,v,S

for all

V > - I, S > 0, and of

Kv,e for all v > 1, S > O. The

gap in our argument for the second case if

0 < V< 1

is curious, but

stems from the fact, obvious on differentiating (9.a2) and (9.b2) at a

a

0, that

(9.el)

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while (9.62)

V Eo Ly

c

y2/2(V-I)
- I, so the Laplace transform of tV (9./)

exp[-

J:

(I-e-

ooc)

,

ex > O.

AV(dxl

is decreasing,

V

in (9.a2) is

tt is clear that the existence of laws

(B.g)

t

t

V,e

satisfying (9.al) is

> - I,

V

(where'1:iecreasing' means "decreasing when evaluated on any Borel set") since t v,6 then appears as the infinitely divisible law with Levy measure v+6

V

A - A

..

V

• But we can determ1ne A

differentiating with respect to a

by taking the negative logarithm and

in (9./) and (9.a2). After using the

recurrence formula (.13.4) for the derivative of

(9.h)

[

o

Iv' the result is

I (k) x e-nx AV (dx) .. --,,\>+-::..1- - _ , a > 0

21ci Iv(k)

which proves that (9.al) holds for

V

> -

I,

e ..

I, with the measure

tV,I(dx) • 4(V+I)x AV(dx) This is a probability measure,in keeping with (9.el) for certainly not obvious at this s t age that Still the problem of showing that

A-;

1 v,l

y" 1/12, but it is

is infinitely divisible.

decreases is now reduced to showing

that V -+ l V, 1 / (\1+1)

• 1S

d ecreas mg • ,

V>

- I.

The argument is completed by appealing to the result of Getoor and Sharpe

05J,

(B.i) where (Rt,t

that 1 V, 1

(A(t),t 0)

0)

is the

distribution of

A{L )/2y2, v> - I, Y

is the additive functional of the Bessel process

defined by

to

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(9.j)

A(t) • Jt I(R

o

< y)ds,

s-

the final touch being the fact that for (9.kV

lJ

-+

plJ/lJ is decreasing on Y

y > 0,

!LY-'

lJ > 0,

which is obvious after using (4.9) to write (9.k2)

for an arbitrary fixed

V

>

o.

Turning now to the production of of

V, K the (9.

u

distribution of V -+

The steps (9.ml)

nV

Kv,e,

nV

let

be the Levy measure

Ly/2y2. We want to show that

is decreasing,

V > 0.

to obtain (9.i) give this time e

-ax

nV (dx)



, V

>

o.

The substitution v = lJ + 1 now reveals that (9.m2)

but the appearance of

lJ + 1 on the right is most frustrating. Indeed,

shall establish below an analogue of (9.i), namely (9.n)

where (9.0)

is the (B(t),t > 0) B(t) •

plJ y

distribution of

B(L

2

Y

)/2y , lJ > 0,

is the additive functional t

r

JO

s > y)d/!.

1 (R

and in view of (9.m2) and (9.k). it follows that (9.l) holds for

V

> I.

we

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This gives the existence of be obtained by letting

Kv,a

for

v> 1, a > 0, and

K1,a

can

v + I, but we are cheated of the result for

0 0, with a representation of this f.unction as the Laplace

transform of

2x nV(dx), a measure which has infinite mass for

in view of (9.e2). Ismail [ZtJ showed that actually c.m. for all real for v < below.

e+

V and

e

K,,_a(v'a) /

0 < '11
0

spent

a result

and due originally to Cieselski and

3,4, .... Curiously, the companion with e = I do not seem to combine to yield

(d-2)/2, d

identities (9.n) and (9.0) for K such an attractive result.

Ismail and Kelker [26J give formulae for the densities of

in terms of the Bessel functions

and

We come now to the proof of (9.n). We shall establish the following result, which encompasses (9.i), (9.n) and the joint Laplace transform of the BESy(V)

before

for

x = y

by

spent below and above

giving y

by

Ly' We use the notation of (9.j) and (9.0).

Proposition (9.2) : Por

V

> 0

V Ey exp{-CaA(Ly )+SB(Ly »/ 2y 2}



=

IV-I

Note : To recover (9.i) and (9.n) put either

I (,Ta) K \)

\!

Cia) K)v13)+Ii3KV-1

a or S equal to zero and

use the recurrence formulae (13.4). To recover

x = y, put a = a

for

and use the formula (13. S) for the Hronskian. Proof: Fix v > 0 and put

Since

f(O)

calculate

= Eo

f(x)

= ExV exp{-

(oA(L ) +SB(L y

y

»/ 2y2}.

exp(- aT / 2y2)f(y), it suffices in view of (9.a2) to y

f(O). But by remark (4.2) (ii) and Williams time reversal

theorem (3.3), or by the result of Sharpe [4IJ, f(O) = g(y), 't-7here V g(x) = E- exp{-(aA(T ) + aB(T 2y2} x

0

-v

where Px governs a BESx(-V) zero. Now g is a solution of G_vg where

G_

= ag

on

0

»/

process up to the time

(O,y) ; G_vg = ag

v is the generator of

BES(-v).

on

To when it hits

(y,oo),

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The determination of

g

is now completed in the manner of

[is]

Section 8,

the constants in the general solution being determined by the boundary conditions g(O) = I ; g(y-) .. g(y+) ; s ' (y-) .. g' (y+).

It is also possible to derive (9.2) from the special cases (9.i) and mentioned earlier, using the independence of the excursions above and below

y - see the end of this section.

We address now the question of complete

of the ratios

n.n) in the Introduction. Our description of the positive measures on [0,(0) 2 which have these ratios as Laplace transforms is based on the limit as

0

of the measures

noted, increase as

decreases.

(9.3) :

.!.

(i)

u

Y

Z

y

y

y > O. Thdn for

exp(t /

does not depend on

This

--

=2

_,which, as we have already

> 0, end

Z

0, y

C(L )Jd;f M (Z) y y

M

y

is a

infinite total mass. Moreover, for each

cr-finite measure on 0 > 0

Y

-

_measurable

with

I (oy) K (oy) Eo,a Z exp(t 0 2 L ) ' y 0 0 y

(ii)

1'1 (Z)

(iii)

M (Z) .. lim.!. y u

Y

on

and

:

Y

The identities (i) and (ii) follow immediately from the formulae

of (4.8) and (4.9) for change of law on (3.xb), using (13.2).

_' and (iii) follmqs like y

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the identity (ii) shows that My here is BES (0) in (3.8). Thus the descripy in (3.7) applies, where from (7.a), and (2.h) we find In view of

Rerml'k (9.4)

identical to the My tion of M

y

associated with

My(LyEdt)

m

dt

in keeping with (3.y) • The measure M can also be described as the image of the measure M y

associated with

BM

in (3.8) after the spoce transformation and random

time change described at the end of section 7.

Pl'oposition

Z > 0 be

(9.4) : Let

!L _measurable. The function y

(i)

is the Laplace transform of a positive measure on -I

f(a,V) - V

Let

V

E exp(-aZ). y

Then the function (ii)

(a,v)

f(a,lV)

is the Laplace transform of a pod ti ve measure on If

Z - A(Ly )

for an additive functional

[0,00) 2•

A, then, for each

V > 0, the

function

(iii)

a

Vf(a,v) (=

(exp -aZ»

is the Laplace transform of an infinitely divisible law on same is true of the function (iv)

v

f(a,lV) / f(a,O+),

for each a > 0 such that

f(a,O+)
0

except in the trivial case when

At

=0

f(a,O+)
0,

C(L)

P

v >

O. the law

is infinitely divisible.

y

has

y

probability

V

under

infinitely divisible law under the

QV(F) Y

M [exp (-az -

Y

M

y

+v

[exp(-az - -} v

2 2

C(I,

» ;

FJ

Y

C(L

y

»J

and (iv) follows because the collection of

divisible

on

is closed under weak

Remarks (9.5) : (i)

Suppose that for each

v, Z has a right-continuous density

gV(z), z > O. Then by approximating

gV(z) by

pV(z < Z < z + £)/£, and

using (9.4) (i) with the indicator of the event of

Z. we Bee that for each

(z.:::. Z .:::. z + £)

z > 0, the function

(9.pl)

is the pointwise limit of c.m. functions, hence itself c.m ••

instead

R+

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(ii) The proof of (ii) shows that f(a,v) where

= v-I

EV exp(-aZ) Y

is a density for the

h (0)

a

Assuming that for each

a

= ro

Jo exp(-

M (dw)e y

-az(w)

1 -2

v

2t)

h (t)dt, a

distribution of

this density is right-continuous in

sort of argument used in the last remark shows that for each

G(L ). y

t, the same t > 0, the

function (9.p2) is e.m ..

Exq!'p,zes

(i)

(9. 6)

Take

Z

= Ly

f(a,v)

in (9.4). From

= 2I v (1Za

y) K

v

(12a y),

r > 0

hence from (9.4) (ii), for each

we have

the function

(9.ql)

a result which ue already know from (7 .f). This cotapLemenr s the fact, noted in [51], that as a consequence of (2.j) each of Hartman's functions (l.a), (l.b), (l.c) and t l cd) becomes completely

(a,v)

monotone

after the substitution

of an extra factor of

/.i

A v/Z and the

in the 2c8llilsnt of each Bessel function. The

infini tely divisible laws on tho: line arising from (9.4) (iii) and (iv) have already appeared in

and (7.f). From (9.pl) we recover the c.m.

of the first Hartman function (l.a)while the conclusion of (9.p2) seems very complicated. (ii) Take pV y

Z

= A(Ly ) '

distribution of

Z/ 2y2

the total time spent below is

the c.m. property of the first Taking

y

show that

= 1//2,

lV-I,I, and (9.4) (ii) and (9.a2) yield of the

Ismail and Kelker

Z has density V

g (z) - 4V Ev_l(z),

y. From (9.i) the

z > 0

functions in (l.n). ; theorem 1.9 and formula (4.15)

346

where for

II

- I, 00

exp ( - J.2

(B.q2)

ll,n

) z.

: n =

(j 11,n

I ,Z, ••• )

being the increasing sequence of positive zeros of the Bessel function

J . From (B.pl) we learn that for each

of the first kind

11

function (B.q3)

\I -+

LIv_1 (a)

z > 0

the

is

hence also (see (9.7) below) (B.q3')

(iii) Take Z a B(L ), the time spent above y before L. From (B.n) y y and (9.4) (ii) we obtain the c.m. property of the second of the functions in O. n)

,

have, for

On the other hand. following Grosswald

1\> 0

the function

y

we

k\l(z)dz,

and from (9.p]) we find that for each

Taking

[j4],

> - I,

\I

the

pV y

is therefore

2VK,,(Z). v

(9.q5)

Ismail also showed that

where 1 m (r) .. -

zn

x

roo 0

ds e -st/Z

which identifies the function Thus for each (9.q6)

Im{K . ,-(x) K) . ,-(x)}

mlei(t)/I 0,

n" 1.2 •••••

..

(a,v) ....

(9.1'1)

(lei) n

and for each (9.1'2)

a> 0,

Ke+1\i + n (I0) u

time with rate

(7.b), and the fact that the jumps to 00 after an exponential

-

v/y, one finds that for

V E [exp(-aT ) y u

; T < u

(0)

=

v >0

exp [-u/gVa(y ,y)J

where

This is a special case of a well known formula which holds for any Markov process with nice enough transition function - see e.g. Getoor

04J,

(iv)

If

formulae ('1.9) and (7.15). exp(-w(a»

is the Laplace transform in a

[0,(0), then W(O) • 0, and

divisible probability law on

of an infinitely w(a)

has a c.m.

derivative (9. iil )

where

c

tions, and

d da w(a)

=c

+

[

0 e

-at tA(dt),

is a positive constant which will always be zero

our apFlica-

A is the usual Levy meascre satisfying A(t,oo)
O. It fo l Lows by the Criterion 2 of Feller [10], XIII.4, (9. t2)

if

f

is c.m. then so is

w(a)/a

=c

+

J:

e-

at

Applying these observations to the that for

v >-

the function of

1

that

f(¢),

and an intef,ration by parts shows also that (9.t3)

for all

w(a)/a

is c.m. with

A(t,ro)dt.

W's in a

we leRrn fuom (9.t1)

(with the substitution

a = y

(9.t4)

v

and similarly for (9.t4')

2y

> 0

v da Wy(o,a) = - I +

-I d

2

is c.m •.

12 0, \) > - I, -

to the result of SUlcz

which is

\)

[44]

for

J'\). From (9.t4') we

K\) which we have not seen in the

obtain a companion inequality for literature

(9.t5')

o

KV-I(a)

a > 0, \) > I.

-

The Laplace transforms (9.t4) and (9.t4')

determine the corresponding

Levy measures by (9.tV, but the Levy measures in question are specified much more

by the alternative formula

a

y

by

in (9.s7) and taking

Laplace transform of

(9.q4)

v-I

V 1 ,1

y

Indeed after dividing

we recognise a multiple of the

in (9.al) and a multiple of the function in

instead of

v, Thus the Levy measure BES (v)

bution of the time spent by local time at

= 1//:2

first reaches

y

belnw

I (given

y

Av y

for the distri-

before the tiIDn

'] < 00)

T

I

that

is given by

(9. t6)

where

Lv is defined in (9.q2), and the corresponding Levy measure for

time spent above (9. t7)

where

k

y

v

is

ny 0,

v>

v is defined below (9.q4). Adding the two

Le7Y measure for

- I,

gives the

'I'

Recalling that the inverse local time process at an exponentially distributed

with rate

(LU'U

0)

jumps to

00

vly, for \) > 0 these

results can be re-expressed as follows, without reference to local time.

352 For fixed

y > 0

process

(R

s

let

N

> 0) -

.3

N

and

+

+

t > 0, let

of duration at least

above

y

: R

= y,

=1/--{s

s

be the number of excursions of the

N

R

s+u > Y

t,

d,

0 < u
0,

and as in (9.4), let

= V-I where

(A(t),t

0)

V

E exp{-aA(L )}, 0, V > 0, Y Y is an additive functional. Then for

> 0,

0,

V > 0

(9.M)

u) -

(i Proof: For

+

t

v

2

Tu
0, let ¢u (c ,») = Eu

2 C(L )} Y

1

Y

y

=

by (4.8). is given by (9.s5)

The corresponding exponent

=

as

-

and this implies (9.w) for

> O. The extension to the case

=0

is

justified by (9.88).

The formula (9.w) shows that, provided

(i)

zero, the def i ni,tion of > 0, v> 0, with (9.w) holds for all

f (a, v)

= 00

Z

a

iff

A(L ), the measure in (9.4) (ii) is y

is not identically

= V

=0

(see note below (9.4). Then

O.

(ii) By remark (3.9), formula (9.w) for of the two-dimensional

At

may be extended continuously to all

subordinator

-I Y

a

0

shows that for

times the potential measure

355

10. THE von MISES DISTRIBUTION IS NOT AUNIQUE MIXTURE OF WRAPPED NORMALS.

parameter

8 = 0, specified as in (5.b) by

k > O. centered at

[21T

vM(k,d8) -

(10. a)

I

S , with

distribution vM(k) on the circle

Consider the

1 (k)r

1

0

exp(k cos 8),


0

e
0,

ao.» where

vM(k) =

wN(v)

J:

wN(v)

is the distribution modulo

random variable with mean 0 on

(0,00)

and variance

21T

of a normally distributed

v. and

n

is the distribution r with Laplace transform (l.a). As noted below Theorem (1.1), this

result admits a direct probabilistic expression in terms of a Brownian 2 motion in R with drift 0 - k started at the origin. For vM(k) is then the distribution of distribution of

a

(see (5.2), while wN(v) is the conditional Tt BTl given C(Tx'oo) = v by Theorem (1.1), and is

the distribution of

C(Tx'oo)

by (4.i).

interpretation of (lO.b)

but in terms of conditioned processes obtained from can be read from (l.e). and Watson raised, the mixing measure

n

k

in (lO.b)

EM with no drift the question of whether

is unique. We answer this question here

in the negative : for each k.

n is not even an point of the k convex set of possible mixing measures. To see this, observe that is determined by its sequence of Fourier

coefficients, the [

where

Fk 1

o

n th of which can be expressed using (10.b)

nk{dv) e

is the law on

-

1

2 • fl

n v

0

as

2

n Fk(dx)x,

[O,IJ obtained from nk on

[0,00)

by the map

v ... e- TV. Thus n is unique if and only if there exists no other k distribution on [0.1] with the same n 2-moments as F k•

356

According to a facous theoreo of

°

for a sequence of non-negative

integers 2 nCO) < n(l) 0,

[O,IJ with thG same m(i)-moments as F.

ProOf: According to a variant of Uuntz's theorera, the functions xn(O), xn(l) ...

are complete in

L2[O,IJ

iff

Bya change of variable, the same is true in

= I,

n(O)

n(i)

= m(i-I)+I.

nal to both

and

it be zero on

(£,i], and

¢ in L2[0,£J

there exists

xm(i)+1

for all put

El/n(i) =

2 L [0,e] .

J:

i , Extend

g(x)

=

Thus, by taking

to

¢

00.

which is orthogo[O,i] by letting

q,(y)dy. By an integration by

parts (m(i)+l) Thus for any both

[0. iJ

0 >

° with

(f + og) (x) dx with the sane

probabilities is

and

0

2

xm(i)+l q,(x)dx

£/sup(-'a,b), where

(f _. og) (x) dx

ra(i)-monents as

has a continuous density

f

k

= O.

a = inf g. b '" sup g,

are probability measures on

f. Since the average

F, the conclusion of

To see that the Lemma applies to F k

= -

xm(i)g(x)dx

of these two

Leoma is evident.

F '" F

such that

k

for each fk(O+)

=

k, we argue that

00.

This is an irJmediate consequence of the formula (5.7) (ii) of [51J continuous density

h

k

of

n,let• which

c(k) u- 3/ 2 for some constant

c(k).

as

shows that u

+

00

for the

357

11. OTHER WRAPPINGS Let

Lx be the last time at

x

for the

radial part

(Rt,t

0) of

a m1 in R2 starting at zero with drift 0 > 0 in the direction e., o. According to Theorem (1.1) and formula (l.i). the distribution of the angle 0(L is a mixture of wrapped normal distributions wN(v) with x) mixing measure the second Hartman law with Laplace transform (l.b) fer parameter

r" ox. The n th Fourier coefficient of this distribution is

therefore

K

(r)/K (r), o n (D.!}(i). we learn that

(ll.a)

1 --2

TI

L e

and since these coefficients have a finite sum by 8(L

i ne

nEZ

has a bounded continuous density

x)

K (r)/K (r), n

0

< e
0,

359

Remarks (l1.V :

(i)

Let

be the transition density of

plane with drift 0

in the real direction. It is easy to verify that 'IT

and, put togather with circle of radius circle for

in the complex

x

-1

Ko (Iz-z' I) exp ORe(z-z')

this yields a formula for the density on the

of the equilibrium (or capacitary) measure of this

BH with drift

0 (see Getoor-Sharpe

[t6J

or Chung [4J). The

theory of last exit distributions as developed on these papers can now be applied quite routinely to obtain formulae for the joint density of the time and place of the last exit from the circle of radius

x

with drift

rather than

z

= o.

0

started at an arbitrary initial position

z

for

EM

Though quite complicated these formulae are as explicit as (11.aJ. these formulae gives a means of calculating the hitting

probability for the circle which seems simpler than a direct attack on the

eM

formula and

of Wendel

(47].

(ii) Everything above can be extended to integer dimensions and perhaps even to real dinensions in the manner of Kent results do not appear to deserve space.

BU,

d

based

2,

but the

360

12. CONCLUDING We mention first a characterization of certain processes which admit a skew-product decomposition

to that of

Let

n = COR+JR ). d > 2. We

us work on the canonical space prdbabilities

with no drift in

d

P on n satisfying

#ypothesis (12.1) : There exists

b

R+ x

n .... R d • uniformly bound,::;cl and.

(F )-predictable such that =t

b(s,w)ds.

= a(xs'c

Here of course

e

t

Sd-I

'

s

t). We put

Xt

and let

FToposition (12.2)

Under Hypothesis (12.1),

(X

t

)

admi t s a skew-product,

representation

(12. al ) where

is a

0)

in Sd-I

increasing process adapted to

Io t

(12.a2)

and there exists

r

(R) =t

independent of

if and only if both

b(t.w)

t

is an

2

cls/R ,

s

R+ x

n .... n, a bounded predictable scalar valued

process, such that

(ie.t»

(R ) and (At)

= r(t.w)

8(t,w)

a.e.

dt dP.

361

Proof: As is easily verified, if

of refining partitions of a

d-r I

BM in S

= Son

0

with

n

+

00.

n(

lim sup n

, then, denoting the

in probability as

n

< s) < ••• < sm s)

=

S

0, and

-

k

d

norm in

is a sequence

by

f'\'

Using the fact that under(12.al) the laws

(Wiener Qeasure starting at

are equivalent on

x)

F

"'t

is

for each

P and t > 0,

one deduces fr041 this that the representation (12.al) holds iff the clock is of the faniJ.iar Browrri an form t ie.az); Let version of the density of p(FIR)

=t

=

P with respect to

(L

now be a (continuous)

t)

VI • Now (l 2. al ) holds iff

x

> 0,

=t

and it is iaJediate that this is in turn equivalent to Lt

-is

R =t -n1"",;.:ec::a;.:s.:;u;.:r;::ab::..l::..e::."'/8, and

2

.jJKV = WKV

if

b
b.

a

t =

equation

364

Proof: Fix (O,b)

and let (b,OO) ,

and on

G W

a

where G

a

is the

BES(O)

W(a)

be the expectation in (12.k). Then on

W solves

[1. Z

a

Z

+

a

+

1. 6 2JW, 2

2 1 d 1 d "'2"--2 + - -

cla

2a da

generator. A change of variables now reveals that

W(a) = (Z6a)_1/zY(28a)

where

y

is a solution of vlliittaker's equation (12.j).

and (12.k) results after the usual consideration of boundary conditions. The above proposition provides probabilistic interpretations and ex!:rmsions of soxe of the resul ts of Har trnan [Z:U (see in particular (4.13) and (4. 14) of [22J). Also, if

[3CO

motion of Kendall polar drift

c

P

gove rns the pole-seeking Brown i an

with generator (12.fJ, in

starting at a point

xeY'z

V!ith

d

=2

Ixl '"

dimensions with a

and angle

e=

after using first the skew-product (12.1), then the change of Vnv fa rmu 11'. (12.h), and finally (12.kJ, we obtain U2.1)

where the In the case

(

E exp i\.l8(T

b

) _ NT b ) u.

are as in (12.k), c < 0

and

C

D)l /z £

= e ( b •.a)(:"-a

(ZYa) •

DOW

y

=

(c 2 + za)l/Z,K

= -c/2y.

a > b , this is the formula (32) of Kendall [3iB.

0,

365

13. APPEN0IX. FORMULAE FOR BESSEL FUNCTIONS We record here for the reader1s convenience Bessel functions

Kv

Iv and

formulae and definitions of Stegun [IJ

I

-n (:i!)

=

I (z) ;

n

ASyEptotics. As

K (z)

(13.3)

Iv and Kv may be found in Abramowitz and

indices. For integer

(13.1)

(13.2)

[8J.

or Erdelyi

'V -}

z

r (v) C-}

K_" (z) v

n

0, v

fixCG

z) -v,

v > O.

Wronskian

Derivatives and

uZ

L

v (z)

and real

l\> (z) •

W{K (z),I (z)} V v (13.4)

those formulae for the

which have been used in the paper. TI,ese

recurrences For

v

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We can do this construction of probability measures simultaneously for observables AI' A ... An that commute in the Z' . strong sense that the groups e , k = 1,2, ••• N conmut.e •

= Es+t •

We also note that W(t)E W-1(t) s

We can now evaluate the Schwinger functions by using the limit (3), the Feynman-Kac formula (4) and the Markov property,

(5).

From (3), we have

lim

T-+m

(6) This is valid provided T > s1 > s2 > ..• > sn > -T.

From (4), we

insert EO exp[- rSj-Sj+l V(Q(s) )dslw(s. - s , l)E J J J+ 0

J

o

-(s.-s. l)H for the semigroup e J J+ , j = 1, ••• n-l, and a factor Eoexp[-J:+Sn V(Q(S»dS]W(T+Sn)E

o

for e-(T+Sn)H, acting on 1.

The

tezms W(t+s )E can be ignored, as E 1 = 1, W(S) 1 = 1. The n O T+s 0 remaining expression exp[-L n V(Q(S»dS] lies in the future, as T+S > O. n

Also EOQ(O)E

O

=

EOQ(O).

Putting these remarks

together, the last few tems in the numerator in (6) become

384

e

-(5

n-l

-s lH -(T+s lH n Q(O)e n 1 S

[J

EOexp - 0

n-l

-5

n

V(Q(s» dS]W(Sn_l

T+S x exp[- 0

f

n V(Q(S»dS]l.

Now take W(Sn_l - Sn) of 1.

to the right, and use the invariance

The term becomes Eoexpl-fsn-l-Sn V(Q(S»dS]E -s Q(sn_l s n-l n 0

L

[J

x exp _

T+S 5

n-

n-l

The terms on the left of E

5

)

x

n

1

-5

n

-s are in the past of sn - sn_l' n-l n those on the right are in the future of sn - Sn_l. Hence, by s

(5), we may remove the conditional expectation E Collecting up terms,

s_ s n n-l (which all commute), this part of the

numerator comes to T+ S

[J

EOexp _

O

n-

1

V(Q(s»dslQ(s

'J

n-

1 -

5

n

)l

(7)

Proceeding in the same way with the next factor in the numerator, namely

and combining with (7), we get

We may proceed to the end, and use translation invariance to obtain

385



I

has unit modulus.

This was suggested

by Nelson, and it gives a quick proof of the "diamagnetic inequalities" first proved by Simon using other methods.

See [4J.

The F-K-I formula suggests a general way to quantize systems

in an electromagnetic field:

we just multiply the Gibbs factor

G in the functional integral by

This has been

used by physicists to quantize a Syste: on any Riemanifold if

Jt

paths

has a boundary

aJf"

that do not hit

;

we restrict the functional integral to

aJ1J

in the time interval [0, t.},

We

would then need to show, post hoc, that the quantum theory thus obtained (by projection to the time-zero space) was the one we sought, e.g. that the Hamiltonian is the covariant Laplacian on

Jt

with Dirichlet boundary conditions on

usually omitted.

aJ(,.

This step is

390 §6.

Non-abelian gauge fields -i

The famous factor e

is a (l-dimensional) unitary

representation of a random element (i.e. an element depending on of the "gauge group" U (1)



In this form it has a natural

generalization to other, non-abelian, Lie groups. Let G, the gauge group, be a given Lie group, and let V be a continuous unitary representation of G on a complex Hilbert space L, with dim L

We say that a gauge field is given, if

we are given the following. continuous path

W

To each pair x, y in Em, and each

from x to y, is given a group element g(x, y; w)

obeying 1-

g(x, x', 0) = IG' the identity of G.

2.

g(x, y;

3.

g(x, y; !:'Ug(y,

=

[g(y,

Xi

=

Zi

g(x, z;

We require the map g to be jointly continuous in x, y and measurable in .!e.. The space of wave-functions for a "multiplet" of

particles

related by the symmetry group G is taken to be the Hilbert space K = L @ L2QRm); a wave-function in K is, equivalently, described by a column vector {WO

j

Here, j is the unit vector along x., and w is the straight line J

between x and x + Aj.

The covariant derivative is

lim A-1{V(X, x + Aj;

+ Ajl -

A4()

d dX

( - - iA. (x) J

j

(x) ,

According to the theory of path-ordered integrals [8J we can recover V from A by

vtx, y; for each smooth

(yl = Pe

iVV.dw x-

(x)

We hope to make sense of this relation

for all paths in Q, and would expect the correct form to involve an ordered Stratanovich integral. The energy operator for a SchrBdinger particle in a given gauge potential A is related to the covariant Laplacian t> 1

"2

H(Al

m

LV .• V. j=l J J

We can now pursue the Euclidean method, as in §5, to obtain

This shows that the semigroup is the expectation of a random unitary operator. e

X+Y

Again, let us use (12l X X 2 Y 2

=e e e

for infinitesimal random operators.

Then

thus:

392

e

'i/.l.iw

N

-H(A)t

IT Ee k=l

-

-

-k

kt

where

""N'

Thus e

-H (A) t

-

_

l

- E e

2.. 0!!l.1 2.. .e

.

•. , e

2..

e

e

. ... e

e

e

J

if the limit exists. Let us move all the translation operators to the right. build up to

They

We are left with a path ordered product of

unitaries, N [

IT e k=l



which has the Stratanovich character.

Progress towards proof of

convergence of products like this is reported by Parthasarthy and Sinha [9J.

I would like to thank Miss K. Anderson for her careful typing of the manuscript.

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K. Osterwalder and R. Schrader, Axioms for Euclidean Greens functions.

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The Malliavin Calculus and its Applications Daniel W. Stroock

*This

work was partially supported by N.S,F. Grant MCS 77-14881.

395

Lecture #);;

2.

Statement of the General Problem: Let

function under

(E ,:'1, P)

be a probabi lity space,

l t: E ... R

\lot

,let

= p. t -1

Given an

:'! - measurable

be the distribution of

t

The central problem addressed in these lectures will be the

P

development of techniques to answer the question:

when is

\lot

continuous and, if it is, what can be said about its density? we will be studying this question only when

(E,:,!,P)

absolutely Actually,

is Wiener space;

but in the hope that the underlying ideas will be clearer in a more general setting, we will begin with an

abstract treatment.

To begin with, consid er how an analyst

would attack this problem.

An analyst confronted with the problem of showing that a measure

IJo

has a density would attempt to obtain estimates of the form:

on (0.1)

where

ql

(n) = Dnl\'

uni form norm. 'I'

E

th n-

is the

derivative of

Indeed, suppose that Taking

'l'

S

0

n ,;; N

In particular, if theory,

\lo

l

and

N

E R

2

has a density f

(m)

f E Cb(R 1

o ,;;

denotes the n ,;; N and

C n

,where

,then

(x) = 2n

II '\\u

, we would then have:

IJtpt)dlJo\ for all

and

holds for

(0,1)

=

(x)

0

i

(\i1,,r'lt)

Definition:

(1.12) Remark:

'I!)

0

i=l

'l!» . .

Since

n

=

'I!)

0

E ilCJ: 1)

E il

E

:

p

n LP(P)

X

p

(1.7)

X2

,

= il 2 = il(£)

.

Also, each

can be made into a Banach space with norm

(By Theorem (1.7)

\\I'\lI

J

x2 valent to the graph{J'> ­norm.) normed

1\\ ·\\\X

for each

p

satisfies:

\F(x)\

and

\

max

Id

P


2

2 < p < m

function satisfying

Proof:

2

n

C (R) b

dominated by

lit

n ... ,t ) EX, n p

=

If

l)/2

is given by the right hand side of

1

In particular, if

Finally, if

Cl(l+ !x\2)(cr

oXi

2 ( ­2)/2

n

F E C (R )

\li(x)\

2

.1:

2

and suppose

C (l+\x\ ) a

(x)\

oXioxj

E IJ / p a

F'

(1.2 )

from

X 2

space in which convergence corresponds to convergence in

Corollary (1.13):

then

on

and I

q < p/2

E L3p/p­2q(p)

• and I

then

p

t EX p

E il q

The first part is proved by approximating and observing that

is a non­negative

\\right hand side of

F

with functions is

403

The second assertion is just a special case of the first. the last part can be easi ly proved by considering F (x) .. E

1/ (x

Z

Z

+ E ) 1/ 2

.

F 01 E

Finally,

where

The desired result follows upon letting

E

I 0

Q.E.D. We are at last ready

see how all of this machinery can be put

to

to work on the problem which we posed at the beginning. Suppose that

1/(1,1) E

n

t E K has the properties that

Given

LP(P)

P ,£«(cp 01)-1) -

.. E [

(

(t,l) E K and that

,we then have:

E

0 I)-a -1-,£(9' 0 t)]

t.t )

Hence

where

C=\\(t,1/(I,I»\\ 1

L (P)

1/2

L (P)

\\(1/(1,1) .1/(1.1»\\ 1

+ 211'u1l 2 L

2

' L (P)

1/2

11(1,1)\1 1

31\1111l x

+ 2\1 (IUI)\\ 1

L (P)

\I 1/(1,1)\\

(P)

2

2

L (P)

404

In other words, i f (1.

• E

1/(•. t)

and



E

then

14) (0.1)

A refinement of the technique used in section \lot

itself already implies that t E LP(R l) for 1 p < dx

shows that (1.14)

by

is absolutely continuous and that

We conclude this lecture with the reformulation of the preceding in the form which will be most useful to uS in the sequel . (l.15) Definition:

It.w E M\

t

11)

if

x(n+l)

so that:

K(n)

5

M

• define

Now use induction on

E X(n)

for

Given

[.

i)

X(l). X and

and

for

• E X(n)

E K(n) :

t E x(n+l)

to define

n" 1

(t)

.soo = tlt.H.(It.1l!> x(n)

and

:

j.(n) (It) and

Ii

have been defined. then

and

Finally. let

= n}(n)

1

Lemma (1.16):

If

(the space of

t= (tl •...• t

lit E Proof:

E

and

function which together with all their derivatives F· t E K

are slowly increasing). then and

n)

n

LP(P)

...

1/t

• then

Moreover.

E

In both cases. the proof is a straight forward inductive

argument which turns on Corollary

(1.13)

Q. E. D.

Theorem (1.17):

A = «(ti"j))lsi.jSn

ct.e.+i.i\e

and

t = (.l •...• t ) E n

6

= det

A

and set

1!...J

j=l

«A(ij»)

[A (ij) (2'!1l:t. + (W,It.) +\II(t .• A (i J

J

is the cofactor matrix of

and

For

n

l(.\II = S

where

Let

J

A

j»)]

405

(l.18 ) In particular, if

P

(l

1/tJ. E

,then

L (P)

(1.19) where

Finally, assume

;r = WI

0'"

0

"n

(l

1/tJ. E

_an

0'1

LP(P)

Then for

and for ql

0'

=

define

n

ex>

E C (R ) b

(1.20) Proof:

The proof of

to arrive at (1.20)

(1.14)

(1.18) Once

is precisely like the argument used

(1.18)

ha 5 been proved,

(1.1 9)

and

follow easily. Q. E. D.

Corollary (1.21): 1/tJ. E

n

LP(P)

Let everything be as in Theorem

,then the distribution

IJot

of

,

under

absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue measure on dlJo'

d;Z" E

(1.17) P n R

If is and

n (R )

Proof:

Once one has

(1.20)

,one obtains ,

simply by taking

=

1

01 1 P < co

contraction semi-group S(Pl F= S F 'T T

(1.3)

will be the extention of

But, because of Lemma

(2.7), this identification

boils to checking that S H

'f a 'f

for all

2

- H

ex L

(n 1/2

-t

2

o H

) LJ

( __ tx

kE[aJ

a EA

X

oH

----.a.)

2 - k OX

oX k

k

a fact which is easy to derive.

We have now shown that

is a s yuunc t r i.c diffusion operator on

J:

Of course, we did this under the assumption that

d

=

1

but as we said at the beginning of this present section, there are no serious obstacles preventing us from doing the same thing for 2.10 Example:

Before going on, let

US

indulge in the following

ridiculous exercise; to show that the distribution of admi ts a

t > 0

- dens ity for each

2

6 (t) ,. But

t

S 6(s)d6(s)

°

2

J: (6 (t )

In particular, that

E Z2 and

F E C7CR1)

=

2S t 6(s)d6(s) o

E Zo

t

6(t)

under

\ll

10 this end, note that since

Also, by

I6(t) ,. -1/2 6(t)

d > 1

formula:

+ t

,and so

t 2 -2 S 6(s)d6(s) = t - 6 (t )

o

(6(t),6(t)i = tHence, Then for

B(t) E KCo:»

1) cP E C;CR

[CP'C6Ct»FC6(t»] = 1 \ll [('1'C8Ct»,6Ct)i F(8Ct»]

Now suppose

414

=

+ 1 IJJ

..

=

1 IJJ

(e(t)F(e (t»)] 1 til [(a(t»(a(t)F(e(t»)]

IJJ [q>(a(t»(e(t)F(e(t»)] -E [q>(e(t»F'(e(t»]

TI,at is: IJJ IJJ E [q>'(e(t»F(a(t») .. E [ql(e(t»(MtF)(a(t»)

where

M

t

F(x) ..

- F' (x)

t

Since it is clear that

MPl t

we conclude that for all

and so the distribution of

n

, and so

is an

th

n-

order polynomial for each

t

'>

D ,

D

e(t)

under

\JJ

has a

- density.

Without too much trouble, it is even possible to check that -

n/2

lim t / C (t) < tiD n e(t) as tiD

and thereby get estimates on the distribution of

Of course it is fair to ask whether we could have possibly developed the Malliavin machinery without knowing ahead of time that

a(t)

has as

nice a distribution as there ever was, but the preceding exercise gives the flavor of the applications which we have in mind. Malliavin calculus and Stochastic Integral Equations: Until the end of this section we will again restrict ourselves to

415

Once again this is a matter of convenience and is not done

d = 1

d > 1

because when

=

d

presents any essential difficulties not encountered

1 OI.e E il(L)

To begin with. suppose

II

OI·(a(t+h)

II E II (L)

+ eh

and then compute As for

are

where

h > 0

U

Clearly

OICa(t+h) -aCt»

B -measurable and let t

We want to show that eh

presents no problem and

• note that if

01

E Zn

then 01 =

S

fda (n)

(:,n

for some

2

f E L ({:, n ( t »

(r eca Ll, that

= \.(t 1 •.•. ,t n)

ERn

= S fda ClOl-1 )

(aCt+h) -

01-

(:,n(t)

(:,n

Thus, if

CJ

E Zn

is

B

t

-measurable, then

OI·(e(t+h) -aCt»

E Zn+l

and so ! COl'

n+1 --2- OI'(a(t+h) -aCt»

(aCt + h) - a (t ) ) )

=

(L0I-1/201)- (a(t+h)

Fr om here it is an easy matter to conclude in general that for measurable (3 _1)

01.1'

E llC!)

h > 0

! ( 01· (a (t + h) - a (t ) )+ e h) • Starting from

and

and

B:

Xe

(3.1)

1 R

OI(a(t+h) -

t-

+ eh E ilC!) and

(L01 - 1/2 (1) • (a (t + h) - a (t » +

• one can now show that if

B

01:

C! e ) h Xe

are progressively measurable functions such

1 R

416

a(t),e(t) E :Q

°

'

Set

that

l R

be progressively measurable functions

4 ill T E[IC\\lO'(t)l\ +\I\B(t)\\\){)dt} t t 0 4 I aCs)de(s) + I e(s)ds . If we know o ill TO 4 T> 0 and that E [I dtl < ee o 1\4 t>O

c

t > 0

-t

,and

then we could conclude from:

2

(t) '"

21 t

+ I

o

2

t

0

(s j jds

that

2

t

S. o

(t ) •

+ S.

t

2

+!(a (s»)ds

o

Since

= S. t (a(s)! o +

-1/2

S. t

+O'Cs)!(O'(s»

o

2 -1/20' (s j j d s

i t follows that

(3.3)

• I

t

o

+

J:

t

0

2

(a(s),aCS»)+a (s j jd s

,

417

Of course we arrived at

(3.3)

we have not yet proved.

However, the assumptions that we made are

trivial to verify if a([ntljn)

and

(3.3)

Hence

for simple

by assuming things about

and

a(')

t z 0

e(t) = e ([ntljn) is proved for simple and

a(·)

are simple (i.e.

8(')

n Z I ).

8(')

But from

8(')

and

(3.3)

and

I

I

b: R ... R

bounded first derivatives and define (3.4 )

x(t)

= S.

t

o

,then by

+

S.

t

o

:2:

t

0

0

by

b(x(s»ds

t

:2:

0

, and

(3.3) :

Jt 20'(x(s»(x(s),x(s»de(s)

(x(t),x(t») =

(3.5)

t

be smooth functions with

x(.)

S.

o(x(s»de(s) +

x(t) E X2

If we know that T> 0

for general

which satisfy our basic assumptions.

0: RI ... RI

Now let

(3.3)

plus standard approximation techniques

8(')

used in stochastic integration, one can justify

a(')

aCt)

,for some and

a(')

which

o

2

2

[(2b' (x t s ) +0' (x(s»)(x(s),x(s») +0 (x(s»]ds

In order to give a rigorous derivation of

(3.5)

same Picard iteration scheme that Ito used to solve

one can use the (3.4)

At each

stage one has to check that the iterate at that state has the required smoothness. jus tify at

It is then quite easy to pass to the limit and thereby (3.5)

S.

(3.6) .Lx(t) =

+

t

o

t

[1/20" (x(s»(x(s) ,xes)) + o'(x(s».Lx(s) -1/2 o(x(s»]de(s)

S. [1/2 o

Combining

At the same time, one can derive:

b" (x(s»(x(s),x(s»+b'(x(s»J:x(s)]ds

(3.4) , (3.5) ,and

(3.6)

,we see that

418

• (x(t),(x(t),x(t»,!x(t)}

again satisfies a system of

stochsstic differential equations to which we can apply the same procedure.

In this way, one can use induction to show that the Malliavin

operations may be applied aribtrarily often to

x(t)

In fact, by

being_ a little careful, one can prove the following theorem. Theorem (U):

Let

d N N cr: R -+ R 181 R

functions such that

li oX i

and

1

i

N

oX i

and

are

Given a aO-measurable

-

b: RN -+ RN be

C"'-

functions for all

E (l«",»N

let

x(·)

be

the progressively measurable function satisfying: x(t) ..

(3.8)

Then

x(t)

+

1t cr(x(s»d8(s) + 1t b(x(s»ds o

E (l«e»N for all t

e «(xi

+

t

0

Moreover, if

A(t)

' then A(t) • A + O

(3.9)

0

L:I

t

k=lO

[Sk(x(s»A(s) +A(s)Sk(x(s»

Io [B(x(s»A(s) +A(s)B(x(s»

..

* Jdek(s)

+ LJ Sk(x(s»A(s)Sk(X(S» k=l

where

and a(x) • crcr*(x)

* +a(x(s»Jds

419

Lecture iFl Some Preliminary Applications: In view of Theorem solution

x (t)

to

(3.7)

and Corollary (1.21)

admits a

(3.8)

,we know that the

N

co

C (R ) - density whenever we can b

get estimates of the form:

(4.1) where

b(t). det(A(t»

estimates like

(4.1)

A(t)

(3.9)

is given by

Obviously,

only can Come from an analysis of equation

(3.9)

To understand a linear fashion.

and

observe that

A(·)

(3.9)

enters this equation in

Hence one suspects that the time-honored method of

variation of parameters should be tried.

After a little thought, one

sees that: A(t) • X(t)AOX(t) * +

(4.2 ) where

X(t)

c

X(O,t)

and

Jt X(s,t)a(x(s»X(s,t) *ds o

o

X(s,t)

s

t

,is the solution to:

d

(4.3)

X(s,t)

1+

+

zstsk(X(u»X(S,u)dek(u) k=l s

St B(x(u»X(s,u)du s

t

s

For those who are not familiar with the variation of parameter technique in this context, the best way to check A(·)

(4.3)

is uniquely determined (path-wise) by

that the right hand side of As soon as one has classical result that definite.

(4.3)

(4.3) x(t)

Indeed, since

satisfies

is the first note that

(3.9)

and then verify

(3.9)

, i t is an easy matter to recapture the

has a smooth density if

(','J

a(·)

is positive

is a non-negative bilinear form,

420 A O

0

and so

I t X(s,t)a(x(s»X " (s,t)ds

A(t) Thus, if

EI

8 (.)

o

E> 0

,where A(t)

,then

t

EJ. X(s,t)X' (s,t)ds

:2'

o

Hence our problem comes down to estimating

o ,;;

Y(s,t) • X(s,t)X(s,t)"

(4.4 )

from below.

Perhaps the easiest way to obtain such estimates is to

derive an equation for (4.5 )

s ,;; t

X(s,t)

-1

X(s,' )

-1

t

.. I -

, namely: X(s,u)

-1

Sk(x(u»dBk(u)

k=l s

+ That (4.5)

X(s,' )

-1

St X(s,u) -1 [-B(x(u»+ s

sat i s f Les

(4.5)

and checking that

2

can be seen by defining

X(s,t)X(s,t)

-1

E

]du

k=l Xes,')

(4.6) t

Y(s,t)

+ ; [(Y(s,u) s where (4.7)

-1

-1

.. I -

*

r,S fY(s,u) kal s

,-B(x(u» +

d

t

k=l

(Sk(X(u»

** fCl,C2}.ClC2+C2Cl Tr(Y(s,t»

-1

Given -1

2

(4.5)

,Sk(x(u»

*

St s

where

*Y(s,u) -1 Sk(x(u»)du In particular,

d -1 2:; Yk(s,u)Tr(Y(s,u) )dBk(u)

kal s

+

,one finds that:

) 1+ ISk(x(u» kal

t

.. N - 2

to

*}dBk(u)

C , C2 E RN 0RN l

for

by

The argument involves

I

elementary Ito calculus plus the pathwise uniqueness of solutions linear stochastic integral equations.

-1

-1

)du

421

Tr(Y(s,u)

-1

Sk(x(u»

* )jTr(Y(s,u) -1 )

and

8(s,u) - Tr(Y(s,u)

-1

[-2B(x(u»

*+

:6d-, (2(Sk(x(u»

2

1,

) ; Sk(x(u»

*Sk(x(u»)J)jTr(Y(s,u) -1 )

k-1 Since

Y(s,u)

for any

is non-negative definite,

CERN 0 RN

Moreover,

Tr(Y(s,t)

-1

(4.7)

-1

,and therefore the

\Tr(Y(s,u) Yk's

-1-1 \\cllopTr(y(s,u) )

and the

e

are bounded.

is equivalent to:

d d ,-, t t \' 2 ) - Nexp[- 62SYk(s,u)dek(u)+S (B(s,u)+2 L;""k(s,u»du] k=l 5 s k-1

Hence, by standard estimates, for

1

p
0

so that

for

t(t) .. F(9(t) +"At)

Since

Os;ss;t it is now clear why the distribution of

s > 0

fails to have a density in

2 R

when

on an open interval containing Example (4.16):

0

lJ2 a' a +

dT\(t) .. CI('T\(t»d9(t)

max 19 (s) +}.s \ S;s and

I 3 Xl

one sees that

We can therefore find an

t" 0

E

In order to understand what is happening

,. .. inft t " 0 : '11 (t)

E [0,,.]

any

and

CI"i

throughout an open interval

0

here, firs t observe that

F E C"'(R

1/2

On the other hand, if

ill - probability.

i f there is a

+

and

0

ci

+ CI'e

-ae'

+ CI'e + lJ2 d'CI

2

for x(t)

vanishes

Xl

The preceding example deals with a situation to

which Hormander's theorem could have been applied.

We now want to

look at a situation which does not lend itself to analysis via Hormander's theorem. Let a =

(J:

-t

d d R ® R

and

Assume that for some

00*

where

d R

a(N)

determined by

«aij»ls;i,jsN (3.8)

d b: R

-t

d R

1 S; N

d

- functions.

and

s > 0

Define

a (N) (.) 0 all

428

xes) ,o(s) E X("')

that one should have to check is that His reasoning would be that 2 o (s)]ds

such optimism.

S [(o(s),o(s»)+

The problem is that in general all that one can say is

s (x(s),x(s»)(o(s),c(s»)

°2 (s)

1/2

o

la(')\

Hence if

2

s (0(-),0('»)

while

d8(s) +

I

t

0

e(s)ds

2

for some

6(');>0(')"£

it is possible to show that not only must

(4.18)

negative (a fact we already know) but also However, this is a long way from one to conclude is that for admits a density.

a.e.

(s) \ 1/2

8 (t)2

°

t:>

t(t)

ID '" E lSo 'KiD)

E LP 0

be non; 0

; all that it allows

the distribution of

Without going into more details, let it suffice to

say that equations of the form

I

and

then:

St

(4.18)

in which

(0(s),x(s»)d9 +

aCt) = (X(S),0(S»)j(X(S),x(S»)1/2

(o(s),o(s») +

From

o

s:> 0 •

t

Unfortunately, I have not been able to justify

LP (lr)

,I(x(s),o(s») \2

(x(t),x(t»)

and

I

for all

0 and that from this one ought to be able to obtain estimates on

111/ (x(t),x(t»)\\ that

(x(t),x(t»);

t

(4.18)

are far more delicate than ones

For example, if \ (t) I t 1/2 ; 2 \t(s) \ d8(s) + t and clearly

is replaced by

I

, then

is not integrable even though

0

; 0) = 0

for all

(t)

t :> 0

is still conceivable that a careful analysis of equations like

It

(4.18)

might give some useful insights into these questions, but as yet the final word is not in. In order to end on a less sour note, let uS conclude with an example to which Malliavin's method can be applied with complete success. Ci

:

I R

->

(0,,,,)

be a uniformly positive n

:I:

0

,for some

Let

- function and let '1\:> 0

Consider the process

429

t (.)

given by

(4.19)

..

Jt !X(I p (s - u) II

o

0

co>

where

p

(t) ..

L,

It is not hard to show that

o

(4.19)

uniquely

determines a progressively measurable and

then sup

(4.20)

where

AO'

411011 4 1

AT211p

and

1

Cb(R )

more, t(t) E 1'(,,)

for each

-p"II\

L ([O,T])

B(T) .. 8\\0\\2 t

0

eB(T)T

\\p'\\2

Ll([O,T])

thUll

Further-

we have a special case of

the general situation described in the preceding paragraph; only in this special case will we be able to get integrability estimates on for

t > 0

The technique which we will use is the following. define

a(N) (x) E RN+l

and

Given

N2 2

b (N) (x ) E RN+l

by if

i =

°

if

and consider the progressively measurable process given by

x

(N)

N+l

:[O,al)xe .... R

430

(4.21)

o

It is easy to show that if

(N) (t ) • N

where

p(N)(t).

(O'(t o

Nt'"

P (N) (s -

0 N )(.)

,then

(N) (u)du)d8 (s)

0

(4.20):

,and therefore by

o

_

distribution of

under

SUP\\ f(N)\l < '" N;;,2 t cn (R1 )

(N)

, then

III

denotes the

tends weakly to the

t

(t)

under

\Jl

'Thus if we can show that

where

f (N) t

E

and, in addition,

of

(N) (dx ) • feN) (x)dx t t

.... 0

In particular, if

for each. T "> 0

distribution

x6

a

Ill[ E sup

as

+ Stb(N)(X(N)(S»dS

X(N)(t). s.t a(N)(X(N)(S»d8(S)

,

then

=

f

t

(x j dx

where

f

t

E

b

Notice that for each situation treated in feN) t

E

estimates on that if

(4.16)

exists.

b

N., 2

Thus for each

defined aa in

(4.3)

E) .... 0

fast rate which is independent of

N., 2

\l.'(

sup

and

N;;, 2

The difficult ingredient here is to show

-1\"

then

t"> 0

What is not so clear is how to get uniform

\If(N)\\ t Cn(Rl)

X(N)(s,t)

,we have the "partially elliptic"

jX(N)(s,t)

00

suffice it to say that one has to X(N)(S,t) • I

as

and I) lOa t a lIufficient ly Without going into details,

use

+ St S(N)(X(S»X(N)(s,u)d8(u) s

+ stB(N)(X(S»X(N)(S,u)d u s and observe that estimates on made to depend on

III (

sup

Ix(N)(s,t)OO

V IlB(N)(X)\\op

-1\

E)

can be

alone (Le. independent

431

of

N

One then notes that if the

2 ).

with

introduced in connection

is strictly sl\\811er than one, then

can be bounded independent of 50

>. > 0

long as

>.

E (O,l)

distribution of

>.

If,

simply by replacing

N ':2:

with

teo)

2 I

V

\\B{N){X)\\op

This gives the required result ,one can reduce to the case

= t(t/2>.)

>. < I

and observing that the

is the same as the distribution of

defined

by ..

(y{IBp'(S o

0

and p(t) .. p (t/n) 2>. For more details on computations of the sort outlined above, see

where a{x) ..

1 (2).)1/2

section

in

(6)

(4)

432

References (1)

Horlllllnder, L., ''Hypoelliptic second order differential equations," Acta Math .• 119, pp. 147-171 (1967).

(2)

McKean, H.P., "Geometry of differential spaces," Ann. Pr ob , 1, pp. 197-206 (1973).

(3)

Stroock, D., and Varadhan, S.R.5 .• Multidimensional Diffusion Processes, Springer-Verlag (1979).

[4]

Stroock, D., "The Malliavin calculus and its applications to second order parabolic differential equations," Parts I and II, to appear in vol. 13 of Math. Systems Theory.

The probability functionals (Onsager-Machlup functions) of diffusion processes

Y. Takahashi, University of Tokyo and S. Watanabe, Kyoto University

Introduction. exp[ -1/2

Jo

For the n-dimensional Wiener measure, the functional

T

14>

t

I

2

dt]

is often considered as an ideal density with

respect to a fictitious uniform measure on the space of all continuous paths

Stratonovich [10]

introduced a notion of the

probability functionals of diffusion processes which may be considered as such ideal densities.

Also, physists call functions naturally associated

with these functionals the Onsager-Machlup functions and regard them as Lagrangeans giving rise to the most probable paths

[9],[2],[4],[7].

We are concerned with the following problem: given a non-singular, locally conservative diffusion process on a manifold

M, to obtain an

asymptotic evaluation of the probability that the paths of the diffusion lie in a small tube around a given smooth curve

$t: [O,T]-7 M.

Since

a Riemannian structure is naturally induced by the diffusion coefficients so that the generator of the diffusion is Beltrami operator,

l2

+ f

the Laplace-

f: a vector field) and an intrinsic metric defining

the tube should be the Riemannian distance

p(x,y), a precise formulation

of the problem may be given as follows: let

M be a Riemannian manifold

434

of the dimension n , I

2

generator

+ f

(x ,P) t

x

and

be the diffusin process with the

:[O,T]-+M

be a smooth curve.

Find an

asymptotic formula for the probability P", ( p (x

"o

e

t

t

)

0.

This convergence is clearly uniform in ••• ,K(j), ••• are independent of

Acknowledgment

r.

rE: 6(, since the constants

This

K 1,.

proof .

We would like to thank N. Ikeda and S. Kotani for

their valuable suggestions and discussions.

The above proof of Th.2.2

2 was suggested by N. Ikeda which simplified our original proof. L -conver-

gence in section 3 was suggested by Fujita and Kotani [3] where the same problem is discussed by a purely analytical method.

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[4]

to appear.

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ITO AND GIRSANOV FORMULAE FOR TWO PARAMETER PROCESSES. ATA AL-HUSSAINI UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA, CANADA AND ROBERT J. ELLIOTI UNIVERSITY OF HULL, ENGLAND

Consider a single event that occurs at a random two parameter 'time'

T = (T1,T2)

2

E

• The underlying probability space can be taken to be Q

A probability measure given on

, which describes when the even occurs, is supposed

Q. In addition, we assume that

U (8 , 0 ) : 1

(8

1,82

)

2

E

=0

}

so that the event occurs on neither axis. The a-field F; , t be the product of the

a-fields F

on the two factors of

Q. F

{F

o

=v t

t

= a{L

t1 F

0

t

>

T1- 81

:

8

1

s t

1}

is defined to

E

= a{IT >

and F

t2

and F is the completion of F

0

2- 82

:

8

2 s t 2}

• The filtration

0

} considered is the right continuous completion of {Ft}.We suppose that T and T2 1

are independent under Write 1

F t1

x

x

2

Pt.

1.-

= I t :::.T.

Pt.

1.-

1.-

1.-

J

JO, t i"Ti J

and

(iu'"") dFiU. 1.-

1.-

i = 1,2.

E

Also, Pt. will be abreviated as Pi etc., and for suitable integrands 1 1.L

e,pi?2

t 2 = J0

etc.

465

DEFINITION A two parameter process X X

t ,t 1

ei

where

xt X

1

,t

t ,t 1

=X 2 =X 2

=X 2

i

E

0,0

0,0

+

e1 ,P

+

0,0

tr

U'P 1 + V.P

e2 ,P

e:5 ,P 1P2 'v

1P2 +

e4 ,P 1P2 rv

+

I"V

X can then be written either as

where

u =

where u

=

1,

+ u'P 2 +

is a SEMlMARTINGALE if it is of the form 2

rv

1P2 +

= 1,2,3,4.

t

1

e

e

'P 2 +

if, P1

+

.P

2

e

V

2,

J.p;, v

'P 2 +

3

e 'P 1

+

e

'P 2 or

4

e 'P 1

NOTATION If Y t

r

t

1 - Y is a process write 6 Y for the process Y t t ,t t i: t 2 1-,t2 1 2

2

2 6 y

t ,t 1

and 6Y

t 1,t2

for the process Y

t

+ Y 1,t2

t

for the process Y 2

- y 1-,t"2

t

- Y 1-,t2

t

1,t2

t

- Y 1,t2

t 1• t 2 -

-

Our form of Ito's formula is given by the following theorem. THEOREM Suppose X

t r t 2 is a semimartingale, as above, and

F:R

R is

a twice

differentiable function. Then F(X

t r t2)

= F(X

0,0

) + 6F(X)'P

1

P

2

PROOF.

Recall the differentiation formula for semimartingales in one dimensional time. There, if

f is a twice differentiable function and X a semimartingale

f (X ) = f(X ) + ftf,(X JdX +.lz t o e-: B

°

+

l ° f"(X

B-

Jd

B

466 We also quote the vector form of this result for the special case of a product:

where

[X,YJ

t

z

= (Xc,f)t +

Oee-ct:

tJX tS s s

In both time parameters the continuous part of our two paramter semimartingale X tl' t 2 is zero, so no predictable quadratic variation terms occur in our formulae. Holding

t

fixed and applying (]) to the X and F of our theorem:

2

+ I

[F(X

T

t

= F(X

0,0

)

+

J ] o

Similarly F'(X «.' = F'(X ) + u] 2 0,0

) tJX ] t ) - F(X - t ) - F' (X T] , 2 T],t T] -,t 2 2 t 6]F(X t )dp] + J ] F'(X _ t )V(u],t 2 0 ":: 2 ": , 2

I" 2

t

J 2

6

0

2F'(X )dP2 + u],u

2

A similar expression for F'(X Also F(X

t)

"i> 2

t ) = F(X

"i: 2

) +

0,0

/2

6

2F(X

0

with a similar formula for

V =

e2 .P 2

t

J 2 0

F"(X

u],u

jV(u],u

2

2

)d.P2•

(3)

(4)

is immediate.

)dP

2

+

/2 F' 0

(X

"r"»

jV(u],u

2

)d.P2

Using the product rule (2):

t )v(u],t 2) 2

F'(X _ u] ,

because

"i:":

)d.P r

+

e4 .P 2

Substituting for dv , and for dF' from (4), in this product formula, and finally substituting in (3) the desired identity is obtained.

GIRSANOV'S THEOREM Suppose to >L and write

is a new probability measure absolutely continuous with respect

467 for the martingale of conditional expectations. We also suppose that continuous with respect to

, so that

necessarily independent under L L

tl't2 t], t

> 0

a.s. Note that T] and T

is absolutely 2

are not

.

- ] is a centred martingale and so has a representation

2

where gEL] (Q) Therefore, L

t H(S],t 2)dQs] e t> 2

where H(t], t

2)

t

and H(tl't

2)

t

= L-]

-> t 2

fo

2

t]

= L-]

t l ' t 2-

fo

g(t],s2)dQ s2

g(s], t

2)dQs 2

Write

Analogues of Girsanov's formula are given by the following results:

THEOREM Consider a centred martingale X under measure

-.

t2

Xtt=fofo 2

r

is a weak martingale.

, so that

468 PROOF

We must show that L Write

t

r

t Nt 2

L

] + (LH).p] _. (LH).p]

N

(e.P2 = .p.p] -

et i

t

is a weak martingale under



2

+ H).P2)'P] -- (e(] + H).P2 +

e(R - (]

+ H) (] + H)).P2)·P]

'I'.p]

where

e,P

and

'I'

e(] + H),P

- e(] + H)'P

2

r

2

2

+ e(R - (1 + H)(1 + H))'P

2

Here, and in the sequel, the integrands are, where approproate, to be interpreted as left limits, so that, for example

(LH).p]

=

J

t]

_ t

L

os] ,

2

H(s],t

2)dP 1.

By the one-parameter product formula (2)

LN = (£.p).p] - (L'I').p] + (NLH).Ql + (LH).p]

(NLH).q] + L'I'.q] + (LK),P

1

where K = .p - 1jI + .pH.

However, using one-parameter calculus H

=

formula:

R

1 +

H

.p

2

- R'P ' and by the product 2

Substituting, we have that

+ e(] + H)(] +

-

=

R(e + .p)

] +

H

'P

However, we can also write

2

H) ·P2

- R(e +

0)

of the partition 1; of [o,tl goes to O. This decomposi-

tion into a martingale and a process "of zero energy" is unique.

477

Proof. 1) For a partition

(to, .. ,t

discrete Doob decomposition

(5)

M't"

t.

+

(=

0

of

[O,t]

A'l:

consider the

(i=O, .. ,n)

t.

1.

along

n)

1.

, where

for

i=O).

For d

>'l;'

we have

(6)

- 2

6

A _

since that

t

i+l

1.

ti

(A6 - A" ti t i+ l

)1

is a martingale along 17 . Thus, condition (1) implies 2. is a Cauchy sequence in L Define A - lim A17 t- \1:'loloO t ' as a right-continuous version of the square-integrable

martingale

Lt

L... t.

E [Xt - Atl Esl, At

i

/1 2

As = M - X s s 2( E[(M t-

and the right side converges to 0 as all paths of

A

Then

t

- At . ) 2] } ,

i

1.+1

1.

l't'l,j.. O. This implies that almost

are continuous, and so we have the existence of the

decomposition {3}. Its uniqueness as well as the extension from rO,t] to [O,oo}

is clear since a martingale with property (4) must be

constant. 2} Suppose that

X

is of the form (3). The argument in [4)p.91 shows tha t the random var iables in (5) converge to At in L 2 as 11:'1'" 0 . By (4), the last two sums in

converge to 0 . These two facts

imply via (6) that sup d,l.'l;"

converges to

0

as

0 , and this is condition (1).

Although a Dirichlet process is in general not a semimartingale, hence not an integrator for general predictable integrands by the theorem mentioned above, it does admit a pathwise ItO calculus in the

478 following manner. For a suitable sequence almost all trajectories of

X

i.e., there is an

have a quadratic variation along

process of the form

[X,xJ t

(7)

of partitions of [0,00),

+

=

such that, P-almost surely,

Ix.xl,

(8)

L

lim

=

n

in all continuity points of ties (7) and (8) and for any

So F ' (Xs- )dX s

n

l

[x,xl.

But for any trajectory with proper-

F EO C

t

lim n

2

, the stochastic integral

L

F ' (X ) (X - X t i t i + 1 t.) l

(;' .,.t . < t n

l

exists and satisfies the Ito formula

S

t

So F ' (Xs- ) dXs + L.[F(X )-F(X s

s-

+

)-F'(X

(O,t]

s-

)L:.x

FII(Xs_)d[X,XJs

s

- !F· t (X 2

s-

s

see [2J. References

[11

DELLACHERIE,C., et MEYER,P.A.: Probabilites et Potentiel, Ch.V-VIII Hermann, Paris (1980)

[2]

FOLLMER,H.: Calcul d 'lt6 sans probabilites. Preprint (1980)

[3]

FUKUSHlMA,M.: Dirichlet forms and Markov processes. North Holland (1980)

[4]

MEYER,P.A.: Integrales stochastiques. Sem.Prob.I, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 39, Springer (1967)

Brownian motion, negative curvature, and harmonic maps.

by W.S.Kendall, Department of Mathematical Statistics, The University, Hull.

This article discusses some relationships between the three topics mentioned in the title.

It is now well-known

that Brownian motion and complex function theory are closely linked, and that their interaction has bean very fruitful. A natural

generalisation of complex function theory is to 'harmonic'

functions taking their values in Riemannian manifolds. The report of Eells and Lemaire (1978) surveys work in this field. It is tempting to ask whether Brownian motion and probabilistic techniques have anything to offer; the article is an attempt to that they do. Details of proofs are not given; they will appear in a later production. It is hoped that their absence will allow the basic ideas to stand out clearly.

480

motion and the little Picard theorem.

1.

1.1

...............

Theorem (Picard) ... .... If

is holomorphic then it is constant.

f

Proof (after- Burgess Davis (1975) The complex Brownian motion

Z

BM(C)

is recurrent on open

sets e By L&vy's theorem (see

2.1 ) the image feZ) is a timeis nonconstant then the time-change is nontrivial. The idea of the proof then runs as follows. Let U be an open contractible neighborhood of the starting point of Z. If U is sufficientJy small, and the starting point is not at changed

BN( C \.:.1 ) • If

a degenerate point of

f

f

,then

feU)

will also be open and contractible.

There will be a peculiar random time T such that whenever t> T if Zt is in U then the path of feZ) up to time t will not be cor.tractible in C '\.:. 1 relative to feU) The proof that such a time T exists is the crux of the matter. Burgess Davis showed that such a

T

could be found, with

f(Z)\[O,t]

not null-homotopio in C\:!:1 when t> T and Zt E U • More recently McKean and Lyons (1980) have shown that 'not null-homotopic' can be replaced by 'not null-homologous', a stronger result correcting a contrary assertion of McKean (1969) •

Either way the existence of

a nonconstant holomorphic function recieves a topological-probabilistic contradiction, as can be seen from the diagram below.

c ';t

C

o

1

f

f(Z)/fo,t

zlfo,t) t

> T

1

481

I

(Levy) Holomorphic functions preserve

BM(C)

up to time changes.

There is a straightforward proof using the ItS calculus (see McKean(1969».

Naturally one asks oneself if such methods would work in higher dimensions, and for a first step one seeks a generalisation of

2.2

2.1.

(Fuglede(1978) , Bismut (1980), Ducourtioux, ••• ) Let

(M,g)

and

F: M

(N,h)

be riemannian manifolds. Then

N

is a harmonic morphism, preserving harmonic functions and thus Brownian motions up to time changes. if

(i)

dim M

dim N

(ii)

F

is harmonic ( in a generalised sensei see below);

(iii)

F

is horizontally conformal ( pee below).

Again one uses the

calculus.

The definitions involved appear at

2.3

and

Definition (see Eells and Lemaire (1978» is harmonic if

F

'i'J [ _ _ g . j

where the

r

+

o

are the Christoffel symbols of the manifolds.

It is illuminating to compare this with the formula for the differential generator of

BM(M,g)

• This generator is the Laplacian

482

operator

1::::..

for

M and is giTen by =

Mrijk

where both here and everywhere in the paper we are using the summation conTention for repeated indices. Note that the condition for

F

to be harmonic can be written

a

F

is semi conformal ( Fuglede terminology ) or horizontally

conformal ( Eells-Lemaire terminology ) if the on the derivative when

dF

a

dF

the restriction

dF \ ( Ker dF

is

conformal and surjective. As an exercise, check Fuglede's theorem 2.2 using these

,.

definitions and Ito's lemma 1

The fly in the ointment is best expressed by quoting the following result, now a classic; Theorem If

M=N

= Roo

and

m> 2

then a map that is conformal

in an open region is merely a restriction of a rigid motion that region. Since harmonic morphisms are essentially special conformal maps in such a context this result means THERE IS NO direct analogue

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of the beautiful interplay between complex analysis and Brownian motion as soon as the dimensions get at all high 1 At least for Euclidean spaces of the same dimension the harmonic morphisms become very rare birds £

3.

Geometrical

eneralisations.

The holomorphic universal covering of Because

C

C

is

U

= ball

C •

is simply connected we can complete the dotted arrow

by a holomorphic

in the diagram below;

C-

--

a commuting diagram of holomorphic maps )

Once we have shown the existence of the covering map from

U to

C";!:,1

indicated in the diagram then the proof

of the little Picard theorem is merely an application of Liouville's theorem. However the existence of the covering map ( which must be holomorphic ) is related to elliptic function theory. Thus the Burgess Davis proof is a genuine alternative. This idea of a universal covering suggests a generalisation of the little Picard theorem. The surface

U can be given a metric

compatible with the analytic structure, and of constant negative curvature ( think of a saddle back to visualise negative curvature ). Skipping over the teChnicalities of curvature, we arrive at

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(Goldberg, Ishihara, Petridis (1975) )

Theorem Let (a) also (b)

(M,g), (N,h)

be riemannian manifolds. Suppose

the Ricci curvature of

M is everywhere nonnegative-definite and

M is connected; the sectional curvatures of _H


0

N that

,there is no __ H and /8,T)one

has VA

('­aG )dx x and G(x­y) the kernel of (_lI+m2)­1. For

=0

Remark: The proof for d

or Id = 2,

a.s.

= 2, Ia I < I41T

has been given in [1.26 b)]

(141T

is determined

by the fact that G(x) ;::; _ 1 In x as x :::0), The situation for /4; < co:;> /8,T is open. The "critical" value

I41T

is of course the same as the one for the

trigonometric interactions (Sine­Gordon model) [I.27J. The proofs for

resp.

and d = 2,

resp. [1.26 d ) }. The case d = 2,

lal

>a

o

has been given in [1.26 c ) ]

lal > /8,T has been covered in [1.28].

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Let now u(r) be any real-valued function onffi of one of the forms 2N s, 1) uCr-) asr a 0 2N>

I

2) u(r)

feardp(a)

f

3) u(r)

cos (ar + e)dp(a)

where p is any measure with support in (- 2 !;, 2 !;). In all cases we have n u(r) = L cnr for suitable c n' Define =: (X with A), n (X = A) n

L cn

:

: (X where A),

(X is such that A)

S) (X = U being the function in above theorem. We shall A A) an additive functional of the free field or shortly an

call

interaction (given by the function u). It is shown in all cases 1) - 3) (an small in 1), A small in 3)) that o

-

-UA

converges weakly as A

to a measure

on S'OR

2).

This

e

measure is Euclidean invariant (and yields relativistic quantum fields giving in particular the quantized solution of

For proofs of these statements see [1.29], [1.26], [1.27], (and references therein). The question now arises: can one put the constructed

in connection with

Dirichlet forms? This question was first discussed in [1.11 e)], [1.11 f)], [1.30] and following answer found. Let v be the restriction of generated by the fields

where

distribution u and QJ E

to the a-algebra

is the random fields with

where we use again the splitting ffid

=JR

x JRs, ffi

being the xO-axis. Then it can be proven [1.11 f)], [1.30] that for above models v has the property of the general theory of 1.2., so that again these v provide examples for the general theory.The relation between the diffusion process TIt associated with v and the random field

is such that the Osterwalder-Schrader

energy operator 6) H coincides as a form on twice-differentiable cylinder functions in L2(dv) with H • Next question: is

v

global Markov, so that one can, as in the free field case,

get directly Markov processes out of the associated random field?

510 7)

This is a difficult question

and it remained open for about 10 years.

By now one knows [I.30J that at least in the case where

is obtained

starting from a u of the trigonometric form 3), with A sufficiently small, then

is globally Markov. This settles the questions of existence of a non

Gaussian random field on 2

group

homogeneous with respect to the full Euclidean

and having the global Markov property.

9)

The precise theorem is the following Theorem

[1.30 a)J. Let d

e

=2

be the weak limit of

-U A

-

:u(.): (X A), A cos (ar+8),

U

- A e

A suf'f LcLenn.Ly small, 0 :;; 8

Then

and let