Speaker: 

Professor Patrick Fitzsimmons

Institution: 

University of California, San Diego

Time: 

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 11:00am

Location: 

MSTB 254

ABSTRACT: A harmonic function of the Brownian path is a local martingale. Is the converse true? We show that the class of local martingale functions of Brownian motion is co-extensive with the class of finely harmonic functions, and then use a results of Fuglede and Gardiner to answer this question in the negative, in dimensions bigger than 2.