XIX: 28, 314-331, LNM 1123 (1985)
LE GALL, Jean-François
Sur le temps local d'intersection du mouvement brownien plan et la méthode de renormalisation de Varadhan (
Brownian motion)
The normalized self-intersection local time of planar Brownian motion was shown to exist by Varadhan (Appendix to
Euclidean quantum field theory, by K.~Symanzik, in
Local Quantum Theory, Academic Press, 1969). This is established anew here by a completely different method, using the intersection local time of two independent planar Brownian motions (whose existence was established by Geman, Horowitz and Rosen,
Ann. Prob. 12, 1984) and a sequence of dyadic decompositions of the triangle $\{0<s<t\le1\}$
Comment: Later, Dynkin, Rosen, Le Gall and others have shown existence of a renormalized local time for the multiple self-intersection of arbitrary order $n$ of planar Brownian motion. A good reference is Le Gall,
École d'Été de Saint-Flour XX, Springer LNM 1527
Keywords: Brownian motion,
Local times,
Self-intersectionNature: Original proofs
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