Nowhere monotonicity of Brownian motion

ID: nowhere-monotonicity-of-brownian-motion

Almost surely, no restriction of a Brownian motion path to an interval of positive length is a monotone function. On a fixed interval, monotonicity forces the independent centered normal random variables given by every dyadic subdivision's increments to have the same sign. The probability is at most for a subdivision into pieces. A countable union over rational intervals gives the simultaneous pathwise assertion.

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