Two-dimensional Bessel transition law
ID: two-dimensional-bessel-transition-law
A dimension-two Bessel process starting at has the displayed marginal law, where are independent standard normal random variables. Take the norm of a planar Brownian motion starting at . Planar Brownian motion avoids a fixed point, so the norm stays positive; Itô formula gives drift and a martingale term of bracket . The Lévy characterization of Brownian motion identifies that term as its driving Brownian motion. The squared radius divided by has a noncentral chi-squared distribution with two degrees of freedom and noncentrality .
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