For a deterministic path in the Cameron-Martin space of Wiener measure, the law of is equivalent to the law of enhanced Brownian motion. The Cameron-Martin theorem gives equivalence for the underlying Brownian paths; the canonical enhancement of the translated path is exactly the rough-path translation, including its mixed area terms. Continuity of this translation transfers small-ball positivity at the identity to every control signature.
If with deterministic , the finite-time Cameron-Martin theorem densities have second moments bounded uniformly in time. Their uniformly integrable martingale limit is the strictly positive displayed density, giving equivalence on the full infinite continuous-path space. Finite-time densities alone do not guarantee such a global density: a nonzero constant drift has infinite energy and its infinite-horizon path law is singular, distinguished by the limiting ratio .
Cameron-Martin theorem for a linear drift Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
For the Cameron-Martin space of Wiener measure path , the Cameron-Martin theorem says that translation of Brownian motion by this linear function changes its law through time by the density
Here is a finite-horizon Girsanov theorem statement with the sign fixed explicitly. Let be a Brownian motion under , and let be predictable with almost surely. If
is a true martingale with , then the measure defined by makes a Brownian motion up to . The sufficient Novikov condition is . Merely being a local martingale is not a sufficient density condition.
For a deterministic absolutely continuous function with and derivative , take . Novikov's condition holds because its exponential is deterministic and finite. Under , the canonical process has the law of a Brownian motion plus . Thus for every bounded measurable path functional ,
This derives the Cameron-Martin theorem density formula from the Girsanov theorem, rather than assuming the two measures have the same drift convention. Replacing by changes the sign of the stochastic integral.
The question's path space is the whole half-line, not just one finite horizon. When , the density martingale satisfies
It has a uniformly integrable limit of mean one, strictly positive almost surely. Integrals here converge in and almost surely. The finite-time identities then identify as the density on the full path sigma-algebra, since finite-time cylinder events generate it. This is Cameron-Martin shifts on infinite Wiener path space. Finite-horizon absolute continuity of measures alone does not imply infinite-horizon absolute continuity of measures.
The Cameron-Martin theorem on Wiener space says that the translated measure is equivalent to Wiener measure precisely when is absolutely continuous, , and . In that case
For such , the exponential is a uniformly integrable stochastic exponential. Under the measure defined by this density, the Girsanov theorem makes a Brownian motion. This identifies the translated law and proves equivalence; replacing by gives the inverse density.
If fails the Cameron-Martin condition on some finite interval, the finite-horizon theorem gives singularity there. If it belongs locally but , the log likelihood is a Brownian motion run at that diverging energy clock minus half the clock. It tends to under one measure and to under the translate, producing disjoint full-measure events. Thus the measures are singular.
False for a general continuous . For example, take . The Brownian Hölder regularity gives almost surely as , while
almost surely. The original and translated path laws therefore concentrate on disjoint measurable events and are mutually singular measures.
More generally, the Cameron-Martin theorem gives the exact criterion: translation by is absolutely continuous precisely when is an absolutely continuous function, , and .
True. Since , it lies in the Cameron-Martin space of Wiener measure. The Cameron-Martin theorem says that the translated law is equivalent, and in particular absolutely continuous, with respect to Wiener measure. Its Radon-Nikodym derivative is