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Brownian scaling
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Choice. If is standard Brownian motion and , then is standard Brownian motion. After redefining to be the zero path off a common probability-one continuity event, the resulting path-space random element has Wiener measure as its law.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: AC, a standard Brownian motion , and a real .
Brownian motion has a centered Gaussian finite-dimensional law with covariance and has one probability-one continuity event; conversely those Gaussian laws give the required independent normal increments. Brownian motion Gaussian process Brownian covariance is equivalent to independent stationary normal increments
Every positive real has a unique positive square root, and nonzero reals have multiplicative inverses. Square roots exist: a unique with ; the positives are The reals form a field
The Borel sigma-algebra of continuous path space is generated by its coordinate maps. A measurable path-space random element has a probability law, and Wiener measure is the unique Borel probability whose coordinates are centered Gaussian with covariance . Borel sigma-algebra of continuous path space is generated by coordinates The law of a random element is a probability measure Wiener measure on continuous path space Uniqueness of Wiener measure
AC supplies the normal-law and Brownian interfaces used in [F1] and [F3]. The Axiom of Choice
Proof
By [F2], is a well-defined positive real and . For any finite times and coefficients , The right side is normal by the Gaussian characterization in [F1], including when coefficients vanish or times repeat. Hence is Gaussian and centered.
For , Also almost surely. By [F1], therefore has mutually independent increments along every finite strictly increasing list.
Let be the single probability-one event on which is continuous. For , the map is continuous as a composition of continuous scalar and time maps. Thus the same event is a common continuity event for . Together with steps 1.1 and 2.1, this proves that is standard Brownian motion.
Define on and on . Every path of is continuous. For each fixed , the random variable is measurable because is measurable and is measurable. Since the Borel sigma-algebra of continuous path space is generated by the coordinates, [F3] makes a Borel random element, and its law is a probability. Its coordinate process has the same finite-dimensional laws as , because the two processes agree on ; hence it is centered Gaussian with covariance by steps 1.1 and 2.1. Uniqueness in [F3] identifies that probability with Wiener measure. When , and the process is unchanged; is excluded because neither nor the claimed covariance normalization is defined. AC is used only through [F1] and [F3].
Source notes
Sousi and Yoshida state Brownian scaling. The proof records both the process claim and the measurable path-law conclusion, rather than inferring continuity from finite-dimensional distributions.
Depends on
- Brownian motion
- Gaussian process
- Brownian covariance is equivalent to independent stationary normal increments
- Wiener measure on continuous path space
- Borel sigma-algebra of continuous path space is generated by coordinates
- The law of a random element is a probability measure
- Uniqueness of Wiener measure
- Square roots exist: a unique $\sqrt{a} \ge 0$ with $(\sqrt{a})^2 = a$; the positives are $\{x^2 : x \neq 0\}$
- The reals form a field
- The Axiom of Choice
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Sources
- Perla Sousi, Advanced Probability, Section 6.3 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Nobuo Yoshida, Probability Theory, Section 6.1 (standard reference, not scraped)