To establish the Brownian weighted quadratic variation in L2 for the deterministic partition of an interval, decomposewhere and .
The summands in are martingale differences: is -measurable, and the following Brownian increment is independent of . Their conditional means are zero, so distinct summands are orthogonal in L2 space. Since and ,For the Riemann sum error, the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality givesThus the triangle inequality in L2 space provesThe time integration variable is .