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Martingales and Brownian Motion: Global Behavior and Zero Set Length

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This lecture covers the global behavior of Brownian motion with drift, the behavior of standard Brownian motion just after time 0, the fact that Brownian motion never stops, and the zero set of Brownian motion having zero length.

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Brownian motion

Brownian motion is the random motion of particles suspended in a medium (a liquid or a gas). This motion pattern typically consists of random fluctuations in a particle's position inside a fluid sub-domain, followed by a relocation to another sub-domain. Each relocation is followed by more fluctuations within the new closed volume. This pattern describes a fluid at thermal equilibrium, defined by a given temperature. Within such a fluid, there exists no preferential direction of flow (as in transport phenomena).

Fractional Brownian motion

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Wiener process

In mathematics, the Wiener process is a real-valued continuous-time stochastic process named in honor of American mathematician Norbert Wiener for his investigations on the mathematical properties of the one-dimensional Brownian motion. It is often also called Brownian motion due to its historical connection with the physical process of the same name originally observed by Scottish botanist Robert Brown.

Geometric Brownian motion

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