Bridging classical and martingale Schrödinger bridges
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| author | Backhoff, Julio Beiglböck, Mathias Bifronte, Giorgia Ley, Armand |
| author_facet | Backhoff, Julio Beiglböck, Mathias Bifronte, Giorgia Ley, Armand |
| contents | We investigate the martingale Schrödinger bridge, recently introduced by Nutz and Wiesel as a distinguished martingale transport plan between two probability measures in convex order. We show that this construction extends naturally to arbitrary dimension and admits several equivalent characterizations. In particular, we identify its continuous-time counterpart as the continuous martingale with prescribed marginals that minimizes a weighted quadratic energy measuring the deviation from Brownian motion. In the irreducible case, we prove that this continuous martingale Schrödinger bridge coincides with the Föllmer martingale, that is, with the Doob martingale associated to a suitable Föllmer process. More generally, we relate the martingale Schrödinger bridge to a variational problem over base measures and to the dual formulation of the corresponding weak optimal transport problem, thereby clarifying its connection with the classical Schrödinger bridge. |
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| spellingShingle | Bridging classical and martingale Schrödinger bridges Backhoff, Julio Beiglböck, Mathias Bifronte, Giorgia Ley, Armand Probability Mathematical Finance 60G42, 60G44, 91G20 We investigate the martingale Schrödinger bridge, recently introduced by Nutz and Wiesel as a distinguished martingale transport plan between two probability measures in convex order. We show that this construction extends naturally to arbitrary dimension and admits several equivalent characterizations. In particular, we identify its continuous-time counterpart as the continuous martingale with prescribed marginals that minimizes a weighted quadratic energy measuring the deviation from Brownian motion. In the irreducible case, we prove that this continuous martingale Schrödinger bridge coincides with the Föllmer martingale, that is, with the Doob martingale associated to a suitable Föllmer process. More generally, we relate the martingale Schrödinger bridge to a variational problem over base measures and to the dual formulation of the corresponding weak optimal transport problem, thereby clarifying its connection with the classical Schrödinger bridge. |
| title | Bridging classical and martingale Schrödinger bridges |
| topic | Probability Mathematical Finance 60G42, 60G44, 91G20 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01299 |