Brownian moment recursion

ID: brownian-moment-recursion

For standard one-dimensional Brownian motion, the Itô formula for gives this recursion. Stop at exits from to make the stochastic integral a true martingale. Gaussian tail integrability and the Doob Lp maximal inequality dominate all stopped powers on a fixed horizon, justifying the limit. Odd moments vanish and .

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