Does Brownian motion go positive immediately?
Question
Let be a standard Brownian motion and its running maximum. For an arbitrary , what is ?
Short answer
. By the reflection principle has the law of , which is positive almost surely. Alternatively, the event that is positive at arbitrarily small times has positive probability and is in the germ field, so Blumenthal's 0-1 law forces probability .
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