Let be the Cameron-Martin space of Wiener measure on : its elements start at zero, are absolutely continuous, and have square-integrable derivatives. For , let solve the controlled ordinary differential equation
The Stroock-Varadhan support theorem in the uniform topology is
One may equivalently take piecewise linear or smooth controls starting at zero. The skeleton uses the displayed vector fields, as appropriate for the Stratonovich equation.
Choose and work in the complete separable space of anchored geometric p-rough paths, with its rough path metric . The enhanced Brownian motion is a random element of this space. Its support of a measure is
We explain this Brownian support step using the permitted results about the enhancement. The almost-sure polygonal convergence proved in Question 3 gives the inclusion of its support in . Indeed, polygonal controls belong to , and the enhancement belongs to their closed signature closure almost surely. Hölder rough-path convergence at an exponent greater than implies -variation convergence: for the level- differences, sum the bound proportional to over a partition. Since , these sums are uniformly bounded and tend to zero with the Hölder distance.
For the reverse inclusion, use Brownian rough path small-ball positivity, namely for every , and Cameron-Martin quasi-invariance of enhanced Brownian motion. These are the Brownian input results used without proof here. For , the rough path translation is continuous and sends to . The law of is equivalent to that of . Given an open neighborhood of , continuity supplies an identity neighborhood mapped into . Small-ball positivity gives positive probability that ; equivalence of the two laws gives . Hence belongs to the Brownian support for every . Closedness of support proves the equality with .
Let be the state-path solution map of the rough differential equation driven by these vector fields, with the fixed initial value . The assumed identification of the Stratonovich solution says . Boundedness of the fields and all their derivatives ensures global existence and the regularity needed by the universal limit theorem. That theorem makes continuous from the rough-path space into the uniform state-path space. For a control signature, consistency with ordinary equations gives .
We use the elementary support under a continuous map identity
To prove it, a neighborhood of with has an open inverse image containing , and therefore positive measure. This puts , and its closure, in the image support. Conversely, the image closure is closed and has full image measure, since the original support has full measure. The minimal closed full-measure characterization from Question 4(i) gives the other inclusion.
Apply this identity to and the Brownian rough-path law. We obtain
Continuity and the definition of imply . The reverse inclusion after taking closures follows from . Therefore the last displayed support is exactly the uniform closure of the skeleton paths, proving the theorem.
Finally, piecewise constant and smooth approximations of converge in , hence in on a finite interval. Their controls converge in total variation, their signatures converge in the rough-path metric, and the universal limit theorem gives uniform convergence of the corresponding skeleton solutions. This proves the stated equivalence of the control classes.