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 with
Choose 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 .
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 . Thus
The dyadic rationals are dense in , so this uniform bound gives a unique continuous extension to the entire interval, with
All 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.
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 by
this also covers every dyadic rational. For , use . Thus every has the required form.
The representation by an infinite strictly increasing sequence is unique. If two sequences first differ at exponent , one sum contains and the other does not. The latter's entire possible tail is at most , while the former has plus its own nonempty tail, so the sums cannot agree.