The Wasserstein Space of Stochastic Processes in Continuous Time

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Main Authors: Bartl, Daniel, Beiglböck, Mathias, Pammer, Gudmund, Schrott, Stefan, Zhang, Xin
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author Bartl, Daniel
Beiglböck, Mathias
Pammer, Gudmund
Schrott, Stefan
Zhang, Xin
author_facet Bartl, Daniel
Beiglböck, Mathias
Pammer, Gudmund
Schrott, Stefan
Zhang, Xin
contents Researchers from different areas have independently defined extensions of the usual weak convergence of laws of stochastic processes with the goal of adequately accounting for the flow of information. Natural approaches are convergence of the Aldous--Knight prediction process, Hellwig's information topology, convergence in adapted distribution in the sense of Hoover--Keisler and the weak topology induced by optimal stopping problems. The first main contribution of this article is that on continuous processes with natural filtrations there exists a canonical adapted weak topology which can be defined by all of these approaches; moreover, the adapted weak topology is metrized by a suitable adapted Wasserstein distance $\mathcal{AW}$. While the set of processes with natural filtrations is not complete, we establish that its completion consists precisely of the space ${\rm FP}$ of stochastic processes with general filtrations. We also show that $({\rm FP}, \mathcal{AW})$ exhibits several desirable properties. Specifically, it is Polish, martingales form a closed subset and approximation results such as Donsker's theorem extend to $\mathcal{AW}$.
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spellingShingle The Wasserstein Space of Stochastic Processes in Continuous Time
Bartl, Daniel
Beiglböck, Mathias
Pammer, Gudmund
Schrott, Stefan
Zhang, Xin
Probability
Optimization and Control
Researchers from different areas have independently defined extensions of the usual weak convergence of laws of stochastic processes with the goal of adequately accounting for the flow of information. Natural approaches are convergence of the Aldous--Knight prediction process, Hellwig's information topology, convergence in adapted distribution in the sense of Hoover--Keisler and the weak topology induced by optimal stopping problems. The first main contribution of this article is that on continuous processes with natural filtrations there exists a canonical adapted weak topology which can be defined by all of these approaches; moreover, the adapted weak topology is metrized by a suitable adapted Wasserstein distance $\mathcal{AW}$. While the set of processes with natural filtrations is not complete, we establish that its completion consists precisely of the space ${\rm FP}$ of stochastic processes with general filtrations. We also show that $({\rm FP}, \mathcal{AW})$ exhibits several desirable properties. Specifically, it is Polish, martingales form a closed subset and approximation results such as Donsker's theorem extend to $\mathcal{AW}$.
title The Wasserstein Space of Stochastic Processes in Continuous Time
topic Probability
Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14135