The germ ฯ-algebra at 0 of a filtration ๐ indexed by NNReal,
defined as the intersection โ_{t > 0} ๐_t. For Brownian motion this is the
๐_0^+ ฯ-algebra of events observable "immediately after" time 0; Blumenthal's
0-1 law states that every such event has probability 0 or 1.
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Definitional unfolding: germSigmaAlgebraZero ๐ equals the indexed infimum
โจ
t > 0, ๐ t.
An abstract specification of a Brownian motion B : NNReal โ ฮฉ โ E
started at x โ E, adapted to a filtration ๐ on (ฮฉ, m, ฮผ). The fields
require that ฮผ is a probability measure, B 0 = x almost surely, B is
adapted, increments B_t - B_s are independent of ๐_s for s < t, each
increment has some law on E (the Gaussian distribution in the standard
case), and the sample paths t โฆ B_t ฯ are continuous for a.e. ฯ.
- isProbabilityMeasure : MeasureTheory.IsProbabilityMeasure ฮผ
- adapted : MeasureTheory.Adapted ๐ fun (t : NNReal) => B t
- indep_incr (s t : NNReal) : s < t โ Indep (โ๐ s) (MeasurableSpace.comap (fun (ฯ : ฮฉ) => B t ฯ - B s ฯ) inferInstance) ฮผ
- gaussian_incr (s t : NNReal) : s < t โ โ (ฮฝ : MeasureTheory.Measure E), MeasureTheory.Measure.map (fun (ฯ : ฮฉ) => B t ฯ - B s ฯ) ฮผ = ฮฝ
- continuous_path : โแต (ฯ : ฮฉ) โฮผ, Continuous fun (t : NNReal) => B t ฯ
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For any strictly positive time t, the germ ฯ-algebra at 0 is contained
in ๐ t, since ๐ t appears as one of the terms in the infimum
โจ
s > 0, ๐ s.
For Brownian motion, every component ๐ s of the filtration (with s > 0)
is independent of the germ ฯ-algebra at 0. This is a Markov-property
consequence of the independent-increments property and is the main ingredient
in the proof of Blumenthal's 0-1 law.
Any event A in the germ ฯ-algebra at 0 is independent of itself under
ฮผ. This is the key intermediate step in the proof of Blumenthal's 0-1 law:
since germSigmaAlgebraZero ๐ โค ๐ 1 and ๐ 1 is independent of the germ
ฯ-algebra (by markov_germ_indep_filtration_at), the germ ฯ-algebra is
independent of itself, which forces ฮผ(A) โ {0, 1}.
Blumenthal's 0-1 law. If B is a Brownian motion started at x with
filtration ๐, then every event A in the germ ฯ-algebra ๐_0^+ = โ_{t > 0} ๐_t
has ฮผ(A) โ {0, 1} (Durrett, Lecture 36). Proof: by germ_sigma_indep_self,
A is independent of itself, so ฮผ(A) = ฮผ(A)ยฒ.