Choose the common dominating probability measure and let , be the Radon-Nikodym derivatives. The assumed second moments imply first-moment integrability by the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. Since is a separable Banach space, the measurable is a strongly measurable function, and both expected values exist as Bochner integrals.
The difference of these Bochner integrals satisfies
The first inequality is the norm bound for a Bochner integral, and the second is the scalar Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. Since , the first factor is at most
With the Hellinger distance convention of the original PDF, the second factor is . Multiplication proves the Hellinger bound for differences of expectations:
The proof uses only the two laws and their common dominating measure; no absolute continuity of measures assumption between and is needed.
Let be the first exit from . On that compact interval the drift is bounded. The Girsanov theorem therefore gives, through every fixed time , a probability measure equivalent to the original one under which the stopped process has Brownian increments before .
If has Lebesgue measure zero, the normal distribution of Brownian motion gives
Since , countable subadditivity gives . Thus the killed law at time is absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue measure on .
For a measurable set , define
where is its indicator function. This is finite because has finite measure and hence . If the sets are pairwise disjoint and , then
The continuity of the positive linear functional therefore gives
so is a measure by countable additivity. Moreover, a set of zero Lebesgue measure has zero indicator in , so is absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue measure.
The Radon-Nikodym theorem now supplies a measurable function such that
Consequently, first for nonnegative simple functions and then, by approximation by nonnegative simple functions, for every nonnegative ,
Applying the stated characterization of the Lp norm to shows that and . The Holder inequality makes continuous on , while bounded simple functions form a dense subset; hence
This is the positive functional representation on Lp.
The relation is an instance of absolute continuity of measures: it means that every -null event is also -null,
By the Radon-Nikodym theorem, this is equivalent to the existence of a nonnegative Radon-Nikodym derivative whose -expectation is one.
If , uniform convergence on compacts in probability under implies the same convergence under . Indeed, let be the Radon-Nikodym derivative. For every event ,
Integrability makes the second term arbitrarily small for large . Thus implies ; apply this to each event where the supremum on exceeds a fixed tolerance. Only absolute continuity of measures is needed, not equivalence.
Usual conditions for a filtration Created 2026-10-05 Updated 2026-10-06
The usual conditions are completeness and right continuity of a filtration: contains all subsets of null events in the ambient probability space, and . They allow the standard continuous-time martingale, stopping time and stochastic integration theorems to be used without repeated augmentation qualifications. An absolute continuity of measures change preserves old null sets but can introduce new ones; the usual completion under the new measure may therefore be understood when needed.