Doob L2 maximal inequality Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For a square-integrable martingale starting at zero,
For a continuous local martingale stopped so that its quadratic variation is integrable, the Itô isometry makes the right-hand side .
Use the continuous semimartingale decomposition , where is a continuous local martingale and is a continuous adapted finite-variation process. Pointwise limits preserve predictability, so is predictable; it is bounded by the common bound for the .
Localize so that and the total variation are bounded. The Doob L2 maximal inequality and the Itô isometry give
by the dominated convergence theorem. For the finite-variation part,
almost surely, again by dominated convergence, now for each sample path. Hence the two integrals converge uniformly in probability after every localization. Part (b) removes the localization and proves
u.c.p.
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The stationary solution of
is
It follows from the Itô isometry that
Thus is zero-mean colored noise with correlation time . The equation is an overdamped harmonic particle of mobility driven by that correlated random force.
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