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BGW.Skorokhod.AldousCriterionOptionalBounds

Transfer of Aldous bounds to optional times #

Right continuity transfers uniform bounds at strictly rounded stopping times to optional times. Continuity from below applies to outer measures of increasing sets, so this step does not require a separate measurability argument for the events.

theorem BGW.Skorokhod.exists_uniform_aldous_optional_bound {T : ℝ} (hT : 0 < T) {Ω : ℕ → Type u_1} [m : (n : ℕ) → MeasurableSpace (Ω n)] (P : (n : ℕ) → MeasureTheory.Measure (Ω n)) (𝓕 : (n : ℕ) → MeasureTheory.Filtration (↑(Set.Icc 0 T)) (m n)) (X : (n : ℕ) → Ω n → D T ℝ) (hAldous : ∀ (τ : (n : ℕ) → Ω n → ↑(Set.Icc 0 T)), (∀ (n : ℕ), IsStopTime (𝓕 n) (τ n)) → ∀ (h : ℕ → ℝ), (∀ (n : ℕ), 0 ≤ h n) → Filter.Tendsto h Filter.atTop (nhds 0) → ∀ ε > 0, Filter.Tendsto (fun (n : ℕ) => (P n) {ω : Ω n | ε ≤ |(X n ω) (Set.projIcc 0 T ⋯ (↑(τ n ω) + h n)) - (X n ω) (τ n ω)|}) Filter.atTop (nhds 0)) {ε η : ℝ} (hε : 0 < ε) (hη : 0 < η) :
∃ δ > 0, ∃ (N : ℕ), ∀ n ≥ N, ∀ (σ : Ω n → ↑(Set.Icc 0 T)), IsOptionalTime (𝓕 n) σ → ∀ (h : ℝ), 0 ≤ h → h ≤ δ → (P n) {ω : Ω n | ε < |(X n ω) (Set.projIcc 0 T ⋯ (↑(σ ω) + h)) - (X n ω) (σ ω)|} ≤ ENNReal.ofReal η

Aldous's sequence condition gives a uniform strict-increment bound at optional times.

Reference: Billingsley 1999, Section 16.