For independent one-dimensional Brownian motions , the real and imaginary parts of are continuous local martingales with equal bracket and zero cross bracket. The Divergence of a driftless Brownian exponential clock makes , and the common-clock time change of orthogonal local martingales makes planar Brownian motion started at . The exponential never vanishes, proving that this Brownian motion never hits zero. Recurrent visits of to arbitrarily negative levels prove visits arbitrarily near zero at arbitrarily large Brownian times.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2009 iii Paper 29 3 a Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
The Dambis-Dubins-Schwarz theorem states that if is a continuous local martingale with and almost surely, then for , is Brownian motion in and . If the terminal bracket is finite, Brownian motion can be continued beyond it on an extension of the probability space. For a nonzero initial value, apply the theorem to .
Apply time change to the vector with the common bracket . The time-change theorem for continuous local martingales says that at inverse bracket times the processes remain continuous local martingales in the time-changed filtration and their quadratic covariations are composed with those times. Since is continuous and unbounded, , givingThe Lévy characterization of multidimensional Brownian motion states that a zero-starting continuous vector local martingale with bracket matrix is standard multidimensional Brownian motion. Thus is standard two-dimensional Brownian motion; this step establishes the joint property, not merely the one-dimensional property of each coordinate.
The printed inverse is . For it is a stopping time, since , and . The martingale is constant on each flat interval of , as follows from its Dambis-Dubins-Schwarz representation. Hence , including any initial flat interval. Moreover . The common Brownian process is adapted to the smaller filtration, and its increments are independent of the larger past, so they are independent of the smaller past as well. Therefore the common-clock time change of orthogonal local martingales givesIf Brownian motion is understood to start at zero, the centered vector is the standard Brownian motion. Retaining the initial vector is the convention required in part (c).