Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 iii Paper 201 5 a Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
For a stopping time of a Brownian filtration, define the reflected stochastic processThe Brownian reflection at a stopping time form of the Brownian reflection principle states that is again standard Brownian motion. If , leave the path unchanged; the second branch is used only when .
For an almost surely finite , the Strong Markov property says that is a fresh Brownian motion independent of . Its negative has the same probability distribution, so reflecting the future preserves the full path probability distribution. Allowing follows by applying this argument to and restricting to each fixed finite time interval.