Dyadic increment chaining 2026-10-05
For a function on the dyadic rationals in , let be its largest absolute adjacent increment on the level- grid. If for , the function extends uniquely to a Hölder continuous function withChoose with . The level- left approximations differ by at most two grid steps, and each finer approximation adds at most one level increment. Thus the difference is bounded by . For a stochastic process with , the bound makes this series converge in the Lp norm for .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 201 4 b Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
Fix an exponent in the range from (a), and work on the single probability-one event where and all dyadic values are finite. We give the dyadic increment chaining argument. For dyadic , put and choose with . Let and . The level- approximations are at most two grid steps apart, so their difference is bounded by . At each subsequent level an approximation either stays fixed or moves by one adjacent level increment. Because are dyadic, these approximations eventually equal . ThusThe dyadic rationals are dense in , so this uniform bound gives a unique continuous extension to the entire interval, withAll these equalities hold on that one event, not merely one event per dyadic time. Define to be the zero path on its null complement. Each is measurable as the limit of the random variables at deterministic left dyadic approximations. Alternatively, their measurable linear interpolations converge uniformly to , which also shows measurability as a random element of . This is the continuous extension version of a continuous modification.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 ia Paper 4 7E a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
This is an infinite binary expansion with digits in . If the usual expansion of has infinitely many digits, list their positions as . If it terminates with a final term , replace that term bythis also covers every dyadic rational. For , use . Thus every has the required form.