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The measurability of hitting times

Richard F Bass, University of Connecticut


Abstract
Under very general conditions the hitting time of a set by a stochastic process is a stopping time. We give a new simple proof of this fact. The section theorems for optional and predictable sets are easy corollaries of the proof.


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Pages: 99-105

Published on: March 29, 2010
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