Brownian increment ($W_t-W_s$)

An increment of a Brownian motion between deterministic times $s<t$ is $W_t-W_s$. It has normal distribution $N(0,t-s)$ and is independent of the filtration up to time $s$. Increments on disjoint time intervals are independent. Their covariance is the length of overlap of the corresponding intervals; this also follows from the Brownian covariance kernel.