On Skorohod spaces as universal sample path spaces

Details On Skorohod spaces as universal sample path spaces On Skorohod spaces as universal sample path spaces

2004-12-06

arxiv.org/abs/math/0412092v1

Mathematics

Probability

15 pages; submitted

Scientific paper

The paper presents a factorization theorem for a certain class of stochastic processes. Skorohod spaces carry the rich structure of standard Borel spaces and appear to be suitable universal sample path spaces. We show that, if $\xi$ is a RCLL stochastic process with values in a complete separable metric space $E$, any other RCLL stochastic process $X$ adapted to the filtration induced by $\xi$ factors through the Skorohod space $D_E[0,\infty)$. This can be understood as an extension of a stochastic process to a standard Borel space enjoying nice properties. Moreover, the trajectories of the factorized stochastic process defined on $D_E[0,\infty)$ inherit the properties of being continuous, non-decreasing, and of bounded variation, resp., from those of $X$. Considering situations which are invariant under the factorization procedure, the main theorem is a reduction tool to assume the underlying measurable space be a standard Borel space. In an example, we pick the existence theorem of regular conditional probabilities on standard Borel spaces to simplify a conditional expectation appearing in stochastic control problems.

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