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On A Brownian Motion Problem of T. Salisbury

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Frank B. Knight*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics University of Illinois 1409 West Green Street Urbana, Illinois 61801 U.S.A.
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Abstract

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Let B be a Brownian motion on R, B(0) = 0, and let f (t, x) be continuous. T. Salisbury conjectured that if the total variation of f (t, B(t)), 0 ≤ t ≤ 1, is finite P-a.s., then f does not depend on x. Here we prove that this is true if the expected total variation is finite.

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1997

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