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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

A Weak Type Inequality for Martingale Transforms and Other Subordinate Martingales

Abstract

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We study a problem of finding the best constant in a weak type inequality for martingale transforms extending the result of Burkholder (1966). First, we study the inequality for the discrete-time martingale case. We present examples of martingales that give good lower estimates of the best constant. We then find a biconcave function to prove that the supremum of these lower estimates is in fact the best constant. We use this biconcave function to prove a sharp weak type inequality for differentially subordinate martingales with the same best constant, and by approximation a similar inequality for stochastic integrals. We generalize these results to the continuous-time case and give an application to harmonic functions.

Degree

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Name thesis:degree_name
Ph.D.
Level thesis:degree_level
Dissertation
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Mathematics
Grantor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Year dc:date
2015

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Suh, Jiyeon
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Burkholder, Donald L.

Subjects

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Rights

Language dc:language
eng

Identifiers

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Identifier
(MiAaPQ)AAI3086191
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/86815

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2026-07-22
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citation

Suh, Jiyeon. A Weak Type Inequality for Martingale Transforms and Other Subordinate Martingales. Dissertation thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/86815