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Ergodic properties of Brownian Motion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Olabisi O. Ugbebor
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University of IbadanIbadanNigeria
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Since Brownian motion is point recurrent in R1, recurrent in R2 and transient in Rn, n ≧ 3 (see (7)), it follows that the total time spent in a bounded open set in R1 or R2 is unbounded. With the following ergodic theorems for Brownian motion in R1 and R2 as motivation, we examine the rate of convergence in these theorems. Note that there is no ergodic property in Rn for n ≧ 3 since Brownian motion is not dense there.

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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1980

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