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In mathematics, progressive measurability is a property of stochastic processes. A progressively measurable process cannot "see into the future", but being progressively measurable is a strictly stronger property than the notion of being an adapted process.
[edit] Definition
Let
The process X is said to be progressively measurable (or simply progressive) if, for every time t, the map
defined by
is
-measurable. This implies that X is
-adapted.
Also, we say that a subset
is progressively measurable if the process Xs(ω): = χP(s,ω) is progressively measurable in the sense defined above. The set of all such subsets P form a sigma algebra on
, denoted Prog, and a process X is progressively measurable in the sense of the previous paragraph if, and only if, it is Prog-measurable.
[edit] Properties
- It can be shown that L2(B), the space of stochastic processes
for which the [[Ito integral
- with respect to Brownian motion B is defined, is the set of equivalence classes of Prog-measurable processes in
.
- Any adapted process with left- or right-continuous paths is progressively measurable.
- Consequently, any adapted process with càdlàg paths is progressively measurable.