Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 202 3 e Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
No absolutely continuous probability measure can remove this nonzero drift on the whole half-line. By the strong law for Brownian motion, the eventhas -probability one. If , absolute continuity of measures gives . But if is a Brownian motion under , the same strong law for Brownian motion gives with -probability one. Since , these two limiting events are disjoint, a contradiction.
This is infinite-horizon singularity of Brownian motion with constant drift. The finite-horizon densities are consistent on but cannot define a globally absolutely continuous measure with the requested property. Indeed,because . Hence lacks uniform integrability on . A drifted law does exist on canonical path space, but it is mutually singular with Wiener measure on the infinite-horizon path sigma-algebra.