J i on r t c Ele o u a rn l o f P c r ob abil ity Vol. 10 (2005), Paper no. 27, pages 925-947. Journal URL http://www.math.washington.edu/∼ejpecp/ On the Increments of the Principal Value of Brownian Local Time Endre Csáki1 Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-1364 Budapest, P.O.B. 127, Hungary csaki@renyi.hu and Yueyun Hu Département de Mathématiques, Institut Galilée (L.A.G.A. UMR 7539) Paris XIII, 99 Avenue J-B Clément, 93430 Villetaneuse, France yueyun@math.univ-paris13.fr Abstract: Let W be a one-dimensional Brownian motion starting from 0. Define Y (t) = R t ds Rt := lim²→0 0 1(|W (s)|>²) Wds(s) as Cauchy’s principal value related to local time. We prove 0 W (s) limsup and liminf results for the increments of Y . Keywords: Brownian motion, local time, principal value, large increments. AMS 2000 Subject Classification: 60J65 60J55 60F15 Submitted to EJP on January 10, 2005. Final version accepted on June 1, 2005. 1 Research supported by the Hungarian National Foundation for Scientific Research, Grant No. T 037886 and T 043037. -- 925 -- 1. Introduction Let {W (t); t ≥ 0} be a one-dimensional standard Brownian motion with W (0) = 0, and let {L(t, x); t ≥ 0, x ∈ R} denote its jointly continuous local time process. That is, for any Borel function f ≥ 0, Z t f (W (s)) ds = 0 Z ∞ f (x)L(t, x) dx, t ≥ 0. −∞ We are interested in the process (1.1) Y (t) := Rigorously speaking, the integral Rt 0 Z t 0 ds , W (s) t ≥ 0. ds/W (s) should be considered in the sense of Cauchy’s prin- cipal value, i.e., Y (t) is defined by (1.2) Y (t) := lim ε→0+ Z t 0 ds 1l{|W (s)|≥ε} = W (s) Z ∞ 0 L(t, x) − L(t, −x) dx. x Since x 7→ L(t, x) is Hölder continuous of order ν, for any ν < 1/2, the integral on the extreme right in (1.2) is almost surely absolutely convergent for all t > 0. The process {Y (t), t ≥ 0} is called the principal value of Brownian local time. It is easily seen that Y (·) inherits a scaling property from Brownian motion, namely, for any fixed a > 0, t 7→ a−1/2 Y (at) has the same law as t 7→ Y (t). Although some properties distinguish Y (·) from Brownian motion (in particular, Y (·) is not a semimartingale), it is a kind of folklore that the asymptotic behaviors of Y are somewhat like that of a Brownian motion. For detailed studies and surveys on principal value, and relation to Hilbert transform see Biane and Yor [4], Fitzsimmons and Getoor [13], Bertoin [2], [3], Yamada [20], Boufoussi et al. [5], Ait Ouahra and Eddahbi [1], Csáki et al. [11] and a collection of papers [22] together with their references. Biane and Yor [4] presented a detailed study on Y and determined a number of distributions for principal values and related processes. Concerning almost sure limit theorems for Y and its increments, we summarize the relevant results in the literature. It was shown in [17] that the following law of the iterated logarithm holds: Theorem A. (Hu and Shi [17]) (1.3) lim sup √ T →∞ √ Y (T ) = 8, T log log T a.s. This was extended in [10] to a Strassen-type [18] functional law of the iterated logarithm. -- 926 -- Theorem B. (Csáki et al. [10]) With probability one the set ½ (1.4) √ Y (xT ) ,0≤x≤1 8T log log T ¾ T ≥3 is relatively compact in C[0, 1] with limit set equal to (1.5) S := ½ f ∈ C[0, 1] : f (0) = 0, f is absolutely continuous and Z 1 0 ¾ (f 0 (x))2 dx ≤ 1 . Concerning Chung-type law of the iterated logarithm, we have the following result: Theorem C. (Hu [16]) (1.6) lim inf T →∞ r log log T sup |Y (s)| = K1 , T 0≤s≤T a.s. with some (unknown) constant K1 > 0. The large increments were studied in [7] and [8]: Theorem D. (Csáki et al. [7]) Under the conditions 0 < aT ≤ T, T 7→ aT and T 7→ T /aT are both non-decreasing, log(T /aT ) lim = ∞, T →∞ log log T (1.7) we have (1.8) lim T →∞ sup0≤t≤T −aT sup0≤s≤aT |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| p = 2, aT log(T /aT ) a.s. Wen [19] studied the lag increments of Y and among others proved the following results. Theorem E. (Wen [19]) (1.9) lim sup sup T →∞ 0≤t≤T supt≤s≤T |Y (s) − Y (s − t)| p = 2, t(log(T /t) + 2 log log t) a.s. Under the conditions 0 < aT ≤ T , aT → ∞ as T → ∞, we have (1.10) lim sup sup T →∞ 0≤t≤T −aT p sup0≤s≤aT |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| aT (log((t + aT )/aT ) + 2 log log aT ) If aT is onto, then we have equality in (1.10). -- 927 -- ≤ 2, a.s. In this note our aim is to investigate further limsup and liminf behaviors of the increments of Y. Theorem 1.1. Assume that T 7→ aT is a function such that 0 < aT ≤ T , and both aT and T /aT are non-decreasing. Then (i) (1.11) sup0≤t≤T −aT sup0≤s≤aT |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| √ r ³ = 8, ´ p aT log T /aT + log log T lim sup T →∞ If aT > T (log T )−α for some α < 2, then r log log T (1.12) lim inf sup |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| = K2 , sup T →∞ aT 0≤t≤T −aT 0≤s≤aT (iia) (iib) a.s. a.s. If aT ≤ T (log T )−α for some α > 2, then (1.13) lim inf T →∞ sup0≤t≤T −aT sup0≤s≤aT |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| p = K3 , aT log(T /aT ) a.s. with some positive constants K2 , K3 . If, moreover, lim T →∞ log(T /aT ) = ∞, log log T then K3 = 2. Theorem 1.2. Assume that T 7→ aT is a function such that 0 < aT ≤ T , and both aT and T /aT are non-decreasing. Then (i) (1.14) lim inf √ T →∞ T log log T aT inf sup 0≤t≤T −aT 0≤s≤aT |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| = K4 , a.s. √ with some positive constant K4 . If limT →∞ (aT /T ) = 0, then K4 = 1/ 2. (iia) If 0 < limT →∞ (aT /T ) = ρ ≤ 1, then (1.15) lim sup T →∞ (iib) √ inf 0≤t≤T −aT sup0≤s≤aT |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| √ = ρ 8, T log log T If a.s. aT (log log T )2 = 0, T →∞ T lim then (1.16) lim sup T →∞ aT √ √ T log log T inf sup 0≤t≤T −aT 0≤s≤aT with some positive constant K5 . -- 928 -- |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| = K5 , a.s. Remark 1. The exact values of the constants Ki , i = 2, 3, 4, 5 are unknown in general and it seems difficult to determine them except in certain particular cases. In the proofs we establish different upper and lower bounds. It follows however by 0-1 law for Brownian motion that the limsup’s and liminf’s considered here are non-random constants. Remark 2. Plainly we recover some previous results on the path properties of Y by considering particular cases of Theorems 1.1 and 1.2. For instance, Theorems A and C follow from (1.11) and (1.12) respectively by taking aT = T , and (1.8) follows from (1.11) combining with (1.13). However in Theorem 1.1(ii) and Theorem 1.2(ii) there are still small gaps in aT . The organization of the paper is as follows: In Section 2 some facts are presented needed in the proofs. Section 3 contains the necessary probability estimates. Theorem 1.1(i) and Theorem 1.1(iia,b) are proved in Sections 4 and 5, resp., while Theorem 1.2(i) and Theorem 1.2(iia,b) are proved in Sections 6 and 7, resp. Throughout the paper, the letter K with subscripts will denote some important but unknown finite positive constants, while the letter c with subscripts denotes some finite and positive universal constants not important in our investigations. When the constants depend on a parameter, say δ, they are denoted by c(δ) with subscripts. 2. Facts Let {W (t), t ≥ 0} be a standard Brownian motion and define the following objects: (2.1) (2.2) (2.3) g := sup{t : t ≤ 1, W (t) = 0} W (sg) B(s) := √ , 0 ≤ s ≤ 1, g |W (g + s(1 − g))| √ m(s) := , 0 ≤ s ≤ 1. 1−g Here we summarize some well-known facts needed in our proofs. Fact 2.1. (Biane and Yor [4]) (2.4) P(Y (1) ∈ dx) = dx r µ ¶ ∞ (2k + 1)2 x2 2 X k (−1) exp − , π3 8 k=0 x ∈ R. Consequently we have the estimate: for δ > 0 (2.5) µ c1 exp − z2 8(1 − δ) ¶ µ 2¶ z ≤ P(Y (1) ≥ z) ≤ exp − , 8 -- 929 -- z≥1 with some positive constant c1 = c1 (δ). Moreover, g, {B(s), 0 ≤ s ≤ 1} and {m(s), 0 ≤ s ≤ 1} are independent, g has arcsine distribution, B is a Brownian bridge and m is a Brownian meander. ¶ µZ 1 ¯ dv ¯ < z ¯ m(1) = 0 P 0 m(v) √ ¶ µ 2 2¶ µ (2.6) ∞ ∞ X 8π 2 2π X k z 2k 2 π 2 2 2 = , z > 0. = (1 − k z ) exp − exp − 2 2 z3 z k=−∞ k=1 P(m(1) > x) = e−x (2.7) 2 /2 , x > 0. Fact 2.2. (Yor [21, Exercise 3.4 and pp. 44]) Let Qδx→0 be the law of the square of a Bessel bridge from x to 0 of dimension δ > 0 during time interval [0, 1]. The process (m2 (1 − v), 0 ≤ v ≤ 1) conditioned on {m2 (1) = x} is distributed as Q3x→0 . Furthermore, we have Qδx→0 = Qδ0→0 ∗ Q0x→0 , (2.8) ∀ δ > 0, x > 0, where ∗ denotes convolution operator. Consequently, for any x > 0 ¶ µZ 1 ¶ µZ 1 ¯ ¯ dv dv ¯ ¯ < z ¯ m(1) = x ≥ P < z ¯ m(1) = 0 . (2.9) P 0 m(v) 0 m(v) Fact 2.3. (Hu [16]) For 0 < z ≤ 1 ³ c ´ ³ c ´ 3 5 (2.10) c2 exp − 2 ≤ P( sup |Y (s)| < z) ≤ c4 exp − 2 z z 0≤s≤1 with some positive constants c2 , c3 , c4 , c5 . Fact 2.4. (Csörgő and Révész [12]) Assume that T 7→ aT is a function such that 0 < aT ≤ T , and both aT and T /aT are non-decreasing. Then (2.11) lim sup T →∞ sup0≤t≤T −aT sup0≤s≤aT |W (t + s) − W (t)| √ p = 2, aT (log(T /aT ) + log log T ) a.s. Fact 2.5. (Strassen [18]) If f ∈ S defined by (1.5), then for any partition x0 = 0 < x1 < . . . < xk < xk+1 = 1 we have k+1 X (2.12) i=1 (f (xi ) − f (xi−1 ))2 ≤ 1. xi − xi−1 Fact 2.6. (Chung [6]) (2.13) lim inf t→∞ r log log t π sup |W (s)| = √ , t 8 0≤s≤t a.s. Define g(T ) := max{s ≤ T : W (s) = 0}. A joint lower class result for g(T ) and M (T ) := sup0≤s≤T |W (s)| reads as follows. -- 930 -- Fact 2.7. (Grill [15]) Let β(t), γ(t) be positive functions slowly varying at infinity, such that √ 0 < β(t) ≤ 1, 0 < γ(t) ≤ 1, β(t) is non-increasing, β(t) t ↑ ∞, γ(t) is monotone, γ(t)t ↑ ∞, γ(t)/β 2 (t) is monotone. Then ³ √ P M (T ) ≤ β(T ) T , g(T ) ≤ γ(T )T according as I(β, γ) < ∞ or = ∞, where I(β, γ) = Z ∞ 1 1 2 tβ (t) µ β 2 (t) 1+ γ(t) ¶−1/2 ´ i.o. = 0 or 1 µ (4 − 3γ(t))π 2 exp − 8β 2 (t) ¶ dt. Now define d(T ) := min{s ≥ T : W (s) = 0}. Since {d(T ) > t} = {g(t) < T }, we deduce from Fact 2.7 the following estimate on d(T ) when T → ∞. Fact 2.8. With probability 1 d(T ) = O(T (log T )3 ), T → ∞. 3. Probability estimates Lemma 3.1. For T ≥ 1, δ, z > 0 we have µ ¶ P sup sup |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| > z 0≤t≤T −1 0≤s≤1 (3.1) µ ¶ µ ¶¶ µ √ z2 z2 ≤ c6 + T exp − T exp − 8(1 + δ) 2(1 + δ) with some positive constant c6 = c6 (δ). For the proof see Csáki et al. [7], Lemma 2.8. Lemma 3.2. For T > 1, 0 < δ < 1/2, z > 1 we have µ ¶ P sup (Y (t + 1) − Y (t)) ≥ z (3.2) 0≤t≤T −1 ≥ min µ √ ¶¶ µ ¡ ¢ 1 c7 T − 1 z2 − exp −z 2 , exp − 2 z 8(1 − δ) with some positive constant c7 = c7 (δ) > 0. Proof. Let us construct an increasing sequence of stopping times by η0 := 0 and ηk+1 := inf{t > ηk + 1 : W (t) = 0}, -- 931 -- k = 0, 1, 2, . . . Let νt := min{i ≥ 1 : ηi > t} Zi := Y (ηi−1 + 1) − Y (ηi−1 ), i = 1, 2, . . . Then (Zi , ηi − ηi−1 )i≥1 are i.i.d. random vectors with law law ηi − ηi−1 = 1 + τ 2 , Zi = Y (1), where τ has Cauchy distribution. Clearly, for t > 0, sup (Y (s + 1) − Y (s)) ≥ max Zi = Z νt , 1≤i≤νt 0≤s≤t with Z k := max1≤i≤k Zi . First consider the Laplace transform (λ > 0): Z ∞ ¡ ¢ e−λu P Z νu < z du λ 0 =λ = = = ∞ X k=1 ∞ X E k=1 ∞ ³ X k=1 ∞ ³ X k=1 =1− =1− =1− =1− i.e., (3.3) E Z ³h ∞ 0 e−λu 1{ηk−1 ≤u<ηk } 1{Z k <z} du ´ i e−ληk−1 − e−ληk 1{Z k <z} h i h i´ E 1{Z k <z} e−ληk−1 − E 1{Z k <z} e−ληk i h i h i´ h E 1{Z k−1 <z} e−ληk−1 − E 1{Z k−1 <z, Zk ≥z} e−ληk−1 − E 1{Z k <z} e−ληk ∞ h i X E 1{Z k−1 <z, Zk ≥z} e−ληk−1 k=1 ∞ X i h E 1{Z k−1 <z} e−ληk−1 P(Y (1) ≥ z) k=1 ∞ ³ X k=1 h i ´k−1 E 1{Z1 <z} e−λη1 P(Y (1) ≥ z) P(Y (1) ≥ z) h i, 1 − E 1{Z1 <z} e−λη1 λ Z ∞ 0 ¡ ¢ e−λu P Z νu ≥ z du = But (recalling that Z1 = Y (1)) P(Y (1) ≥ z) h i. 1 − E 1{Z1 <z} e−λη1 h i 1 − E 1{Z1 <z} e−λη1 ≤ 1 − E(e−λη1 ) + P(Y (1) ≥ z) -- 932 -- and (cf. [14], 3.466/1) 1 − Ee −λη1 hence λ Z 1 =1− π ∞ 0 Z ∞ −∞ 2 e−λ(1+x 1 + x2 ) 2 dx = √ π Z √ 0 λ √ 2 e−x dx ≤ 2 λ, ¢ ¡ P(Y (1) ≥ z) . e−λu P Z νu ≥ z du ≥ √ 2 λ + P(Y (1) ≥ z) On the other hand, for any u0 > 0 we have λ Z ∞ e −λu 0 ¡ ¢ P Z νu ≥ z du = λ u0 e −λu 0 ¡ ≤ P Z νu0 It turns out that (3.4) Z ¡ P Z νu ≥ z ¢ ≥ z + e−λu0 . ¢ du + λ ¡ ¢ P(Y (1) ≥ z) P Z νu0 ≥ z ≥ √ − e−λu0 ≥ min 2 λ + P(Y (1) ≥ z) where the inequality x ≥ min y+x µ 1 x , 2 2y ¶ , µ Z ∞ u0 ¡ ¢ e−λu P Z νu ≥ z du 1 P(Y (1) ≥ z) √ , 2 4 λ ¶ − e−λu0 , x > 0, y > 0 was used. Choosing u0 = T − 1, λ = z 2 /u0 , and applying (2.5) of Fact 2.1, we finally get P (3.5) µ sup 0≤t≤T −1 ≥ min µ (Y (t + 1) − Y (t)) ≥ z ¶ √ ¶¶ µ ¡ ¢ 1 c8 (δ) T − 1 z2 − exp −z 2 . , exp − 2 z 8(1 − δ) This proves Lemma 3.2. u t Lemma 3.3. For T ≥ 2, 0 ≤ κ < 1 and δ, z > 0 we have (3.6) P µ sup 0≤t≤T −1 (Y (t + 1) − Y (t)) < z ¶ ≤ 5 T κ/2 ´ ³ 2 + exp −c9 T (1−κ)/2 e−(1+δ)z /8 with some positive constant c9 = c9 (δ). See Csáki et al. [7], Lemma 3.1. Lemma 3.4. For T ≥ 1, 0 < z ≤ 1/2 we have (3.7) P µ sup sup |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| < z 0≤t≤T −1 0≤s≤1 -- 933 -- ¶ ³ c ´ c10 11 ≥ √ exp − 2 z T with some positive constants c10 , c11 . Proof. Define the events A := ½ 4 2 z , W (1) ≥ , inf W (u) ≥ 4 z 1≤u≤T z sup |Y (s)| < 0≤s≤1 and e := A ½ sup ¾ ¾ sup |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| < z . 0≤t≤T −1 0≤s≤1 e since if A occurs and t < 1, t + s ≤ 1, then Then A ⊂ A, |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| ≤ 2 sup |Y (s)| ≤ 0≤s≤1 z < z. 2 If A occurs and t < 1, s ≤ 1, 1 < t + s ≤ T , then |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| ≤ Y (t + s) − Y (1) + |Y (t) − Y (1)| ≤ Z t+s 1 z du + < z. W (u) 2 Moreover, if A occurs and 1 ≤ t, s ≤ 1, t + s ≤ T , then |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| = Z t+s t du z ≤ < z. W (u) 2 e as claimed. But by the Markov property of W , Hence A ⊂ A (3.8) P(A) = Z ∞ 4/z P µ sup |Y (s)| < 0≤s≤1 ¶ µ ¶ 2 ¯¯ z ¯¯ W (1) = x P inf W (u) ≥ W (1) = x ϕ(x) dx, ¯ ¯ 1≤u≤T 4 z where ϕ denotes the standard normal density function. Using reflection principle and x ≥ 4/z, z ≤ 1/2, we get (3.9) µ ¶ ¶ µ 2 ¯¯ x − 2/z √ P inf W (u) ≥ ¯ W (1) = x = 2Φ −1 1≤u≤T z T −1 ¶ µ µ ¶ c12 2 4 √ ≥ 2Φ − 1 ≥ 2Φ √ −1≥ √ , z T −1 T T with some constant c12 > 0, where Φ(·) is the standard normal distribution function. Hence (3.10) c12 e ≥ P(A) ≥ √ P(A) P T µ sup |Y (s)| ≤ 0≤s≤1 4 z , W (1) ≥ 4 z ¶ . To get a lower bound of the probability on the right-hand side, define g, (m(v), 0 ≤ v ≤ 1), (B(u), 0 ≤ u ≤ 1) by (2.1), (2.2) and (2.3), respectively. Recall (see Fact 2.1 ) that these three objects are independent, g has arc sine distribution, m is a Brownian meander and B is a Brownian -- 934 -- bridge. Moreover, (g, m, B) are independent of sgn(W (1)) which is a Bernoulli variable. Observe that ¯ du ¯¯ sup |Y (s)| = ¯, 0≤s≤g 0 B(u) Z p sup |Y (s)| = |Y (1) − Y (g)| = 1 − g √ g≤s≤1 |W (1)| = Then ¯Z ¯ g sup ¯¯ 0≤s≤1 p s 1 0 dv , m(v) 1 − g m(1). µ ¶ z 4 P sup |Y (s)| ≤ , W (1) ≥ 4 z 0≤s≤1 µ ¶ z z 4 ≥ P sup |Y (s)| ≤ , Y (1) − Y (g) ≤ , W (1) ≥ 8 8 z 0≤s≤g ¯Z s ¯ µ ¶ Z 1 ¯ du ¯¯ z p z p 4 dv √ 2 ¯ g sup ¯ ≥P ≤ , 1 − g m(1) ≥ , W (1) > 0, g < z ¯ ≤ 8, 1 − g 8 z 0≤s≤1 0 B(u) 0 m(v) ¯ ¯Z s ¶ µ Z 1 ¯ dv z 4 du ¯¯ 1 2 √ , ≤ , m(1) ≥ ≤ , W (1) > 0, g < z ≥ P sup ¯¯ ¯ 8 8 z 1 − z2 0≤s≤1 0 m(v) 0 B(u) ¯Z s ¯ ¶ µZ 1 µ ¶ ¯ dv du ¯¯ 1 z 4 ¯ = P sup ¯ ≤ , m(1) ≥ √ P(W (1) > 0)P(g < z 2 ) ¯≤ 8 P 8 z 1 − z2 0≤s≤1 0 m(v) 0 B(u) ¶ µZ 1 z 4 dv ≤ , m(1) ≥ √ ≥ c13 zP 8 z 1 − z2 0 m(v) ¶ µZ 1 Z ∞ z ¯¯ dv ≤ ¯ m(1) = x P(m(1) ∈ dx). = c13 z P √ 8 4/(z 1−z 2 ) 0 m(v) It follows from Facts 2.1 and 2.2 that for x > 0, z > 0 (3.11) P µZ 1 0 and z ¯¯ dv ≤ ¯ m(1) = x m(v) 8 ¶ ≥P µZ 1 0 dv z ¯¯ ≤ ¯ m(1) = 0 m(v) 8 ¶ ≥ ³ c ´ c14 15 exp − 2 z3 z µ ¶ µ ¶ 4 8 P m(1) > √ = exp − 2 . z (1 − z 2 ) z 1 − z2 (3.12) Putting (3.10), (3.11), (3.12) together, we get (3.7). u t Lemma 3.5. For T > 1, 0 < z ≤ 1/2, 0 < δ ≤ 1/2 we have P (3.13) µ inf sup |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| < z 0≤t≤T −1 0≤s≤1 ≤ c16 µ µ exp − (1 − δ)2 2(1 + δ)2 z 2 T ¶ ¶ µ + exp − c5 δ 4(1 + δ)2 z 2 -- 935 -- ¶ + exp µ c17 c18 z 2 c19 /z2 − e z2 T ¶¶ with some positive constants c16 , c17 = c17 (δ), c18 = c18 (δ), c19 = c19 (δ). Proof. Consider a positive integer N to be given later, h = (T − 1)/N , tk = kh, k = 0, 1, 2, . . . , N . Then for 0 < δ ≤ 1/2 we have µ ¶ P inf sup |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| < z 0≤t≤T −1 0≤s≤1 ≤P µ inf sup |Y (tk + s) − Y (tk )| ≤ (1 + δ)z 0≤k≤N 0≤s≤1 =: P1 + P2 . ¶ +P µ sup sup |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| > δz 0≤t≤T −1 0≤s≤h ¶ By scaling and Lemma 3.1 à ! δz P2 = P sup sup |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| > √ h 0≤t≤(T −1)/h 0≤s≤1 Ãr µ ¶ µ ¶ µ ¶! δ2 z2 δ2 z2 T −1 T −1 ≤ c6 + 1 exp − + 1 exp − + h 8h(1 + δ) h 2h(1 + δ) ¶ µ δ2 z2 . ≤ 2c6 (N + 1) exp − 8h(1 + δ) To bound P1 , we denote by d(t) := inf{s ≥ t : W (s) = 0} the first zero of W after t. Consider those k for which sup0≤s≤1 |Y (tk + s) − Y (tk )| ≤ (1 + δ)z. If, moreover, d(tk ) ≥ tk + 1 − δ, which means that the Brownian motion W does not change sign over [tk , tk + 1 − δ), then Z 1−δ ds 1−δ (1 + δ)z ≥ |Y (tk + 1 − δ) − Y (tk )| = ≥ , |W (tk + s)| sup0≤s≤T |W (s)| 0 and it follows that ¶ (1 − δ) P1 ≤ P sup |W (s)| > z(1 + δ) 0≤s≤T µ ¶ + P ∃k ≤ N : sup |Y (tk + s) − Y (tk )| ≤ (1 + δ)z; d(tk ) < tk + 1 − δ µ 0≤s≤1 ¶ (1 − δ)2 ≤ 4 exp − 2(1 + δ)2 z 2 T µ ¶ N X + P sup |Y (tk + s) − Y (tk )| ≤ (1 + δ)z; d(tk ) < tk + 1 − δ . µ k=0 0≤s≤1 c (s) = W (d(tk ) + s) for s ≥ 0 and Yb (s) be the associated principal values. Observe Let W that on {sup0≤s≤1 |Y (tk + s) − Y (tk )| ≤ (1 + δ)z; d(tk ) < tk + 1 − δ}, we have sup0≤u≤δ |Yb (u) + (Y (d(tk )) − Y (tk ))| < (1 + δ)z, and |Y (d(tk )) − Y (tk )| ≤ (1 + δ)z which imply that sup |Yb (u)| < 2(1 + δ)z. 0≤u≤δ -- 936 -- By scaling and Fact 2.3 we have µ ¶ µ b P sup |Y (u)| < 2(1 + δ)z ≤ c4 exp − 0≤u≤δ c5 δ 4(1 + δ)2 z 2 ¶ . Therefore, we obtain: µ (1 − δ)2 P1 ≤ 4 exp − 2(1 + δ)2 z 2 T Hence µ P1 + P2 ≤ 4 exp − ¶ µ c5 δ + c4 (N + 1) exp − 4(1 + δ)2 z 2 (1 − δ)2 2(1 + δ)2 z 2 T ¶ µ + c4 (N + 1) exp − µ +2c6 (N + 1) exp − By taking N = [ec5 δ/(4(1+δ) P1 + P 2 µ µ ≤ c16 exp − 2 2 z ) δ2 z2 8h(1 + δ) ¶ ¶ . c5 δ 4(1 + δ)2 z 2 ¶ . ] + 1, we get (1 − δ)2 2(1 + δ)2 z 2 T ¶ µ + exp − c5 δ 4(1 + δ)2 z 2 ¶ + exp µ c17 c18 z 2 c19 /z2 − e z2 T with relevant constants c16 , c17 , c18 , c19 , proving (3.13). ¶¶ u t 4. Proof of Theorem 1.1(i) The upper estimation, i.e. (4.1) lim sup T →∞ sup0≤t≤T −aT sup0≤s≤aT |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| r ≤ 1, ³ p ´ 8aT log T /aT + log log T a.s. follows easily from Wen’s Theorem E. Now we prove the lower bound, i.e. (4.2) lim sup T →∞ sup0≤t≤T −aT sup0≤s≤aT |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| r ≥ 1, ³ p ´ 8aT log T /aT + log log T a.s. In the case when aT = T , (4.2) follows from the law of the iterated logarithm (1.3) of Theorem A. Now we assume that aT /T ≤ ρ < 1, with some constant ρ for all T > 0. By scaling, (3.2) of Lemma 3.2 is equivalent to µ ¶ √ P sup (Y (t + a) − Y (t)) ≥ z a (4.3) 0≤t≤T −a ≥ min à 1 c7 , 2 p ¶! µ ¡ ¢ T /a − 1 z2 exp − − exp −z 2 z 8(1 − δ) -- 937 -- for 0 < a < T , 0 < δ < 1/2, z > 1. Define the sequences tk := e7k log k , (4.4) k = 1, 2, . . . and θ0 := 0, (4.5) θk := inf{t > Tk : W (t) = 0}, k = 1, 2, . . . , where Tk := θk−1 + tk . For 0 < δ < min(1/2, 1 − ρ) define the events Ak := ( sup 0≤t≤tk (1−δ)−atk (Y (θk−1 + t + atk ) − Y (θk−1 + t)) ≥ (1 − δ)βk with ) , k = 1, 2, . . . v à s ! u u t k βk := t8atk log + log log tk . a tk q p Applying (4.3) with T = tk (1 − δ), a = atk , z = (1 − δ) 8(log tk /atk + log log tk ), we have for k large P(Ak ) = P ≥ min with à µ sup 0≤t≤tk (1−δ)−atk bk 1 , 2 (log tk )1−δ ¶ (Y (t + atk ) − Y (t)) ≥ (1 − δ)βk − ! 1 (log tk )8(1−δ)2 p tk (1 − δ)/atk − 1 c20 q p bk = . ≥√ log k (1−δ)/2 (tk /atk ) log tk /atk + log log tk c7 Hence P k P(Ak ) = ∞ and since Ak are independent, Borel-Cantelli lemma yields P(Ak i.o.) = 1. It follows that (4.6) lim sup k→∞ sup0≤t≤tk (1−δ)−at (Y (θk−1 + t + atk ) − Y (θk−1 + t)) k r ≥ 1 − δ, ³ q ´ tk 8atk log at + log log tk k It can be seen (cf. [9]) that we have almost surely for large enough k tk ≤ T k ≤ t k µ 1 1+ k -- 938 -- ¶ , a.s. consequently (4.7) lim k→∞ tk = 1, Tk a.s. Since by our assumptions tk at ≤ k ≤ 1, Tk a Tk we have also a tk = 1, k→∞ aTk (4.8) lim a.s. On the other hand, for any δ > 0 small enough we have almost surely for large k aTk ≤ (1 + δ)atk ≤ tk δ + atk , thus T k − a Tk ≥ T k − t k δ − a tk , consequently sup sup 0≤t≤Tk −aTk 0≤s≤aTk (4.9) ≥ sup 0≤t≤tk (1−δ)−atk |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| (Y (θk−1 + t + atk ) − Y (θk−1 + t)), hence we have also (4.10) lim sup k→∞ sup0≤t≤Tk −aT sup0≤s≤aT |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| k k r ≥ 1 − δ, ´ ³ q tk 8atk log at + log log tk a.s. k and since δ > 0 can be arbitrary small, (4.2) follows by combining (4.7), (4.8), (4.9) and (4.10). u t 5. Proof of Theorem 1.1(ii) First assume that (5.1) aT > T (log T )α for some α < 2. By Theorem C, log log T sup sup |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| aT 0≤t≤T −aT 0≤s≤aT r log log aT a.s., sup |Y (s)| ≥ K1 , ≥ lim inf T →∞ aT 0≤s≤aT lim inf (5.2) r T →∞ -- 939 -- proving the lower bound in (1.12). To get an upper bound, note that by scaling, (3.7) of Lemma 3.4 is equivalent to r µ ¶ ³ c ´ √ a 11 (5.3) P sup sup |Y (s + t) − Y (t)| < z a ≥ c10 exp − 2 T z 0≤t≤T −a 0≤s≤a for T ≥ a, 0 < z ≤ 1/2. Let tk and θk be defined by (4.4) and (4.5), resp., Tk = θk−1 + tk as in the proof of Theorem 1.1(i). Let c11 be the constant as in (5.3) and choose δ > 0 such that α/2 + c11 /δ 2 < 1. For ε > 0 define the events ( Ek := sup sup 0≤t≤(1+ε)tk −atk (1+ε) 0≤s≤atk (1+ε) |Y (θk−1 + t + s) − Y (θk−1 + t)| ≤ δ r a tk log log tk ) . √ Then putting T = (1 + ε)tk , a = a(1+ε)tk , z = δ/ log log tk into (5.3), we get P(Ek ) = P hence P ≥ c10 k r à sup sup 0≤t≤(1+ε)tk −atk (1+ε) 0≤s≤atk (1+ε) |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| ≤ δ r a tk log log tk ! c10 c10 a tk , exp(−(c11 /δ 2 ) log log(tk ) ≥ 2 = α/2+c /δ 11 tk (log tk ) (7k log k)α/2+c11 /δ2 P(Ek ) = ∞, and since Ek are independent, we have P(Ek i.o.) = 1, i.e. (5.4) lim inf k→∞ s log log tk a tk sup sup 0≤t≤(1+ε)tk −atk (1+ε) 0≤s≤atk (1+ε) |Y (θk−1 + t + s) − Y (θk−1 + t)| ≤ δ, a.s. for any ε > 0. For large enough k by (4.7) and (4.8) we have aTk ≤ (1 + ε)atk , a.s. and Tk − aTk ≤ θk−1 + (1 + ε)tk − (1 + ε)atk , a.s. Thus given any ε > 0, we have for large k sup (5.5) sup 0≤t≤Tk −aTk 0≤s≤aTk ≤2 sup 0≤t≤θk−1 |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| |Y (t)| + sup sup 0≤t≤(1+ε)tk −atk (1+ε) 0≤s≤atk (1+ε) |Y (θk−1 + t + s) − Y (θk−1 + t)|. By Theorem A, Fact 2.8, (4.7), (5.1) and simple calculation, sup 0≤t≤θk−1 |Y (t)| = O(θk−1 log log θk−1 )1/2 (5.6) 3 = O(tk−1 (log tk−1 ) log log tk−1 ) 1/2 =o µ a tk log log tk ¶1/2 , as k → ∞. Assembling (5.4), (5.5) and (5.6), we get s log log tk sup lim inf sup |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| k→∞ a tk 0≤t≤Tk −aTk 0≤s≤aTk -- 940 -- a.s. = lim inf k→∞ s log log Tk a Tk sup sup 0≤t≤Tk −aTk 0≤s≤aTk |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| ≤ δ, a.s. which together with (5.2) yields (1.12). Now assume that (5.7) aT ≤ T (log T )α for some α > 2. By Theorem 1.1(i), sup0≤t≤T −aT sup0≤s≤aT |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| p T →∞ aT log(T /aT ) sup0≤t≤T −aT sup0≤s≤aT |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| p ≤ lim sup aT log(T /aT ) T →∞ lim inf (5.8) sup0≤t≤T −aT sup0≤s≤aT |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| r ≤2 ≤ lim sup ³ p ´ T →∞ 2αaT log T /aT + log log T α+2 r α+2 , α i.e., an upper bound in (1.13) follows. To get a lower bound under (5.7), observe that by scaling, (3.6) of Lemma 3.3 is equivalent to ! à µ ¶ µ ¶(1−κ)/2 ³ a ´κ/2 √ T −(1+δ)z 2 /8 P sup (Y (t + a) − Y (t)) < z a ≤ 5 e + exp −c9 T a 0≤t≤T −a for a ≤ T , 0 ≤ κ < 1, 0 < δ, 0 < z. Using (5.7) we get further µ ¶ √ P sup (Y (t + a) − Y (t)) < z a 0≤t≤T −a (5.9) ´ ³ 5 α(1−κ)/2 −(1+δ)z 2 /8 . ≤ + exp −c (log T ) e 9 (log T )ακ/2 In the case when (1.7) holds, (1.13) was proved in [7]. In other cases the proof is similar. Let Tk = ek and define the events ( Fk = sup 0≤t≤Tk −aTk (Y (t + aTk ) − Y (t)) ≤ C1 with C1 = 2 s s Tk aTk log a Tk ) α − 2 − 2εα . (1 + δ)α By (5.9) with κ = 2/α + ε, P(Fk ) ≤ 5 k ακ/2 ´ ³ 2 + exp −c9 k α((1−κ)/2−(1+δ)C1 /8) ≤ -- 941 -- 5 k 1+αε/2 ´ ³ + exp −c9 k αε/2 . One can easily see that with these choices lim inf k→∞ P k P(Fk ) < ∞, consequently sup0≤t≤Tk −aT (Y (t + aTk ) − Y (t)) qk ≥ C1 , aTk log aTTk a.s., k implying also sup0≤t≤Tk −aT sup0≤s≤aT |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| k k q lim inf ≥2 k→∞ aTk log aTTk k r α−2 , α a.s., for ε can be choosen arbitrary small. Since sup0≤t≤T −aT sup0≤s≤aT |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| is increasing in T , we obtain a lower bound in (1.13). This together with the 0-1 law for Brownian motion complete the proof of Theorem 1.1(ii). u t 6. Proof of Theorem 1.2(i) If aT = T , then (1.14) is equivalent to Theorem C. Now assume that ρ := limT →∞ aT /T < 1. First we prove the lower bound, i.e. √ T log log T inf (6.1) lim inf T →∞ 0≤t≤T −aT aT sup 0≤s≤aT |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| ≥ c, a.s. By scaling, (3.13) of Lemma 3.5 is equivalent to ¶ µ √ P inf sup |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| < z a 0≤t≤T −a 0≤s≤a (6.2) µ µ ¶ µ ¶ µ ¶¶ a(1 − δ)2 c5 δ c17 c18 az 2 c19 /z2 ≤ c16 exp − + exp − + exp − e 2(1 + δ)2 z 2 T 4(1 + δ)2 z 2 z2 T for a < T , 0 < z ≤ 1/2, 0 < δ ≤ 1/2. Define the events ( Gk = inf sup 0≤t≤Tk+1 −aTk 0≤s≤aT k √ |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| < zk aTk ) k = 1, 2, . . . Let Tk = ek and put T = Tk+1 , a = aTk , z = z k = C2 r a Tk Tk+1 log log Tk+1 into (6.2). The constant C2 will be choosen later. Denoting the terms on the right-hand side of (6.2) by I1 , I2 , I3 , resp., we have (k) P(Gk ) ≤ c16 (I1 (k) + I2 -- 942 -- (k) + I3 ), where µ ¶ c21 = exp − 2 log log Tk+1 , C2 µ ¶ c22 Tk = exp − 2 log log Tk+1 , C2 a Tk (k) I1 (k) I2 (k) I3 = exp à c25 Tk c24 C22 a2Tk c23 Tk log log Tk+1 C 2 aT 2 k (log T ) − k+1 C22 aTk Tk2 log log Tk+1 ! with some constants c21 = c21 (δ), c22 = c22 (δ), c23 , c24 , c25 . One can see easily that for any choice of positive C2 and for all possible aT (satisfying our P (k) conditions) we have k I3 < ∞. So we show that for appropriate choice of C2 we have also P (k) < ∞, j = 1, 2. k Ij ³√ q ´ c21 , cρ22 First consider the case 0 < ρ. Choosing a positive δ, one can select C2 < min P P (k) and it is easy to verify that k Ij < ∞, j = 1, 2, hence also k P(Gk ) < ∞. √ P (k) In the case ρ = 0 choose C2 < (1 − δ)/((1 + δ) 2). With this choice we have k I1 < ∞ P (k) P for arbitrary δ > 0. Since limk→∞ (Tk /aTk ) = ∞, we have also k I2 < ∞ and k P(Gk ) < ∞. The Borel-Cantelli lemma and interpolation between Tk ’s finish the proof of (6.1). We have also √ verified that in the case ρ = 0 one can choose c = 1/ 2 in (6.1), since δ > 0 can be choosen arbitrary small. Now we turn to the proof of the upper bound, i.e. (6.3) lim inf √ T →∞ T log log T aT inf sup 0≤t≤T −aT 0≤s≤aT |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| ≤ C3 , a.s. with some constant C3 . If ρ > 0, then inf sup 0≤t≤T −aT 0≤s≤aT |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| ≤ sup |Y (s)| ≤ sup |Y (s)| 0≤s≤T 0≤s≤aT and hence (6.3) with some positive constant C3 follows from Theorem C. If ρ = 0, then let for any ε > 0 (6.4) λT := inf{t : |W (t)| = sup 0≤s≤T (1−ε) |W (s)|}. According to the law of the iterated logarithm, with probability one there exists a sequence {Ti , i ≥ 1} such that limi→∞ Ti = ∞ and (6.5) |W (λTi )| ≥ p 2Ti (1 − ε) log log Ti . -- 943 -- But Fact 2.4 implies that for ε > 0 (6.6) |W (λTi ) − W (s)| ≤ p 2(1 + ε)εTi log log Ti , λTi ≤ s ≤ λTi + εTi , i ≥ 1. Now assume that W (λTi ) > 0. The case when W (λTi ) < 0 is similar. Then (6.5) and (6.6) imply (6.7) W (s) ≥ ´p ³√ p 1 − ε − ε(1 + ε) 2Ti log log Ti , λTi ≤ s ≤ λTi + εTi . ρ = 0 implies that aT ≤ εT for any ε > 0 and large enough T , hence we have from (6.7) for large i sup (Y (λTi + s) − Y (λTi )) = Y (λTi + aTi ) − Y (λTi ) = 0≤s≤aTi Z λTi +aTi λ Ti ds W (s) a Ti ´√ . p 1 − ε − ε(1 + ε) 2Ti log log Ti √ Since ε > 0 is arbitrary, (6.3) follows with C3 = 1/ 2. This completes the proof of Theorem 1.2(i). ≤ ³√ u t 7. Proof of Theorem 1.2(ii) If ρ = 1, then (1.15) is equivalent to (1.3) of Theorem A. So we may assume that 0 < ρ < 1. It suffices to show (1.15) when aT = ρT . First we prove the upper bound (7.1) lim sup T →∞ inf 0≤t≤T −ρT sup0≤s≤ρT |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| √ ≤ ρ, 8T log log T a.s. Let k be the largest integer for which kρ < 1 and put xi = iρ, i = 0, 1, . . . , k, xk+1 = 1. It suffices to show that if f ∈ S defined by (1.5), then min 1≤i≤k+1 |f (xi ) − f (xi−1 )| ≤ ρ. Assume on the contrary that |f (xi ) − f (xi−1 )| > ρ, Then k+1 X i=1 k ∀i = 1, 2, . . . , k + 1. X ρ2 ρ2 ρ2 (f (xi ) − f (xi−1 ))2 > + = kρ + ≥ 1, xi − xi−1 ρ 1 − kρ 1 − kρ i=1 contradicting (2.12) of Fact 2.5. This proves (7.1). -- 944 -- The lower bound (7.2) lim sup T →∞ inf 0≤t≤T −ρT sup0≤s≤ρT |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| √ ≥ ρ, 8T log log T a.s. follows from the fact that by Theorem B the function f (x) = x, 0 ≤ x ≤ 1 is a limit point of √ Y (xt) 8T log log T and for this function min 0≤x≤1−ρ |f (x + ρ) − f (x)| = ρ. This completes the proof of Theorem 1.2(iia). u t Now assume that aT (log log T )2 = 0. T →∞ T (7.3) lim Define λT as in (6.4). Then according to Chung’s LIL (cf. Fact 2.6) π |W (λT )| ≥ √ (1 − ε) 8 (7.4) s T log log T for ε > 0 and all T sufficiently large. But according to Fact 2.4, sup |W (λT + s) − W (λT )| 0≤s≤aT p ≤ (2 + ε)aT (log(T /aT ) + log log T ) ≤ s (2 + ε)εT . log log T Assuming W (λT ) > 0, on choosing suitable ε > 0 we get for some c26 > 0 W (λT + s) ≥ W (λT ) − s (2 + ε)εT ≥ c26 log log T s T . log log T Hence inf sup |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| ≤ Y (λT + aT ) − Y (λT ) 0≤t≤T −aT 0≤s≤aT = Z aT 0 ds aT ≤ W (λT + s) c26 r log log T T for all large T . The case when W (λT ) < 0 is similar. This shows the upper bound in (1.16). -- 945 -- For the lower bound we use Fact 2.7: with probability one s T π T (7.5) gT ≤ , max |W (u)| ≤ √ , 2 0≤u≤T (log log T ) 2 log log T i.o. According to Theorem 1.2(i) we have for any ε > 0 and all large T inf (7.6) sup |Y (t + s) − Y (t)| 0≤t≤T (log log T )−2 0≤s≤aT √ (K4 − ε)aT (K4 − ε)aT log log T p ≥ r³ ≥ . ´ (1 + ε)T T (log log T )2 + aT log log T On the other hand, if T (log log T )−2 ≤ t ≤ T − aT , and (7.5) is satisfied, then √ Z t+aT aT 2 log log T ds √ ≥ , i.o. 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