# Brownian bridge sde

The SDE for the Brownian bridge is the following:

$dX_t = \dfrac{b-X_t}{1-t}dt+dB_t$

with the solution

$X_t = a(1-t)+bt+(1-t)\int_{0}^t \dfrac{dB_s}{1-s}$.

The expectation and covariance are:

$\mathbb{E}(X_t) = a+(b-a)t$

$Cov(X_s,X_t) = min(s,t)-st$

Now I want to have a look at what happens as $t\rightarrow 1$.

For the expectation and covariance I get

$\mathbb{E}(X_1) = b$,

$Cov(X_s,X_1) = min(s,1)-s$

But I'm having trouble to see what happens with $X_t$. The first two summands clearly go to b, and the last summand should go to 0 as Brownian bridge expression for a Brownian motion suggests. The prove in the last comment using Doob's maximal inequality and Borel-Cantelli is quite short and I don't understand, what's exactly happening there, especially not, where the last equation comes from. Would be great if someone could explain it more exact how I get $\lim_{t \rightarrow 1} (1-t)\int_{0}^t \dfrac{dB_s}{1-s} = 0$ a.s.

• A first approach is to compute the second moment, since $$\mathrm{var}(X_t)=(1-t)^2\int_0^t\frac{ds}{(1-s)^2}=t(1-t),$$ one sees that $X_t\to1$ in $L^2$ when $t\to1$. – Did Jul 22 '15 at 10:07
• Thank you! The second moment is $\mathbb{E}(X_t^2) = [a(1-t)+bt]^2 + t (1-t)$, as calculated here:math.stackexchange.com/questions/408620/brownian-bridge?rq=1, but I don't see how the estimate in math.stackexchange.com/questions/115727/… follows from that...how can I continue? – Max93 Jul 22 '15 at 10:24
• The process is "bridge" between $a$ and $b$, hence $X_1=b$ so is $X_0=a$. – Math-fun Jul 22 '15 at 10:52
• @Did $EX_1=b$ with variance vanishing at $1$ we obtain $X_1 \to b$. – Math-fun Jul 22 '15 at 10:55
• @Math-fun Yeah, actually, the correct statement this yields is that $X_t\to b$ in $L^2$ when $t\to1$. – Did Jul 22 '15 at 11:38

First notice that $$\int_0^t f(s) dB_s$$ has the same distribution as $$B_{\int_0^t f(s)^2ds}$$. This equality of distributions is true as processes in $$t$$ (not just for a single value of $$t$$). The way to prove this is to note that both are Gaussian processes with the same covariance kernel.
Using this with $$f(s) = \frac{1}{1-s}$$, one obtains that $$\int_0^t \frac{dB_s}{1-s}$$ is the same process (in law) as $$B_{\frac{t}{1-t}}$$. So we just need to show that $$\lim_{t \to 1} (1-t)B_{\frac{t}{1-t}} = 0$$ a.s. This is equivalent to showing $$\frac{B_u}{u} \to 0$$ as $$u \to \infty$$. By time inversion, this is in turn equivalent to showing that $$B_s \to 0$$ as $$s \to 0$$, which is obvious from continuity of paths.
• Obviously it might just be simpler to note that the covariance structure is the same as $B_t-tB_1$, but this method is more general. – Shalop Feb 14 at 14:51