Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 iii Paper 201 6 c Solution 2026-09-28
Start Brownian motions at arbitrary . Use the successive meeting times from part b, but after coordinate meets, drive that coordinate of the second process with the first process's increments forever. The Strong Markov property shows that each marginal remains a -dimensional Brownian motion. By part b every coordinate is eventually locked, so the resulting coordinatewise coalescing coupling of Brownian motions has an almost surely finite coalescence time .
Because is bounded and harmonic, Dynkin formula for Brownian motion shows that and are bounded martingales. ThereforeSince almost surely, the right side tends to zero. Thus for all , proving the Brownian coupling proof of the harmonic Liouville theorem.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2026 iii Paper 201 5 b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
For , Itô formula shows thatis a martingale. Take expectations and let . The function is bounded on the compact set , while is bounded and by part (a). The dominated convergence theorem therefore gives Dynkin formula for Brownian motion