Skorokhod embedding theorem

The Skorokhod embedding theorem represents a centered probability distribution $\mu$ on the real numbers with finite variance as $B_T\sim \mu$ for a stopping time $T$ of Brownian motion. One may choose $T$ so that the stopped process $(B_{t\wedge T})$ is uniformly integrable and $\mathbb{E}T=\int x^2\mu (dx)$.