If a continuous local martingale starts at zero and has deterministic continuous quadratic variation , the Dambis-Dubins-Schwarz theorem gives . It is therefore a centered Gaussian process. The converse follows from independent increments of a Gaussian martingale.
Fix . Since is a martingale,
Every finite vector consisting of and past values has a multivariate normal distribution. Therefore uncorrelated jointly normal variables are independent, so the increment is independent of every finite vector of past values. A Monotone class theorem then extends this to independence from . This is the independent increments of a Gaussian martingale.