Coupling of Brownian motions in Banach spaces
Abstract
Consider a separable Banach space W supporting a non-trivial Gaussian measure μ. The following is an immediate consequence of the theory of Gaussian measure on Banach spaces: there exist (almost surely) successful couplings of two W-valued Brownian motions B and B begun at starting points B(0) and B(0) if and only if the difference B(0)-B(0) of their initial positions belongs to the Cameron-Martin space Hμ of W corresponding to μ. For more general starting points, can there be a "coupling at time ∞", such that almost surely \|B(t)-B(t)\|W 0 as t∞? Such couplings exist if there exists a Schauder basis of W which is also a Hμ -orthonormal basis of Hμ . We propose (and discuss some partial answers to) the question, to what extent can one express the probabilistic Banach space property "Brownian coupling at time ∞ is always possible" purely in terms of Banach space geometry?
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