Burkholder-Davis-Gundy inequalities in UMD Banach spaces

TL;DR

This paper establishes Burkholder-Davis-Gundy inequalities for martingales in UMD Banach spaces, extending previous results and providing new stochastic integral isomorphisms for various types of martingales.

Contribution

It generalizes BDG inequalities to all UMD Banach spaces and different martingale types, and develops new Itô isomorphisms for vector-valued stochastic integrals.

Findings

BDG inequalities hold for all martingales in UMD spaces

Itô isomorphisms are established for stochastic integrals with respect to various martingales

Extensions to non-UMD spaces under specific conditions

Abstract

In this paper we prove Burkholder-Davis-Gundy inequalities for a general martingale $M$ with values in a UMD Banach space $X$. Assuming that $M_0=0$, we show that the following two-sided inequality holds for all $1\leq p<\infty$: \begin{align}\label{eq:main}\tag{{$\star$}} \mathbb E \sup_{0\leq s\leq t} \|M_s\|^p \eqsim_{p, X} \mathbb E \gamma([\![M]\!]_t)^p ,\;\;\; t\geq 0. \end{align} Here $ \gamma([\![M]\!]_t) $ is the $L^2$-norm of the unique Gaussian measure on $X$ having $[\![M]\!]_t(x^*,y^*):= [\langle M,x^*\rangle, \langle M,y^*\rangle]_t$ as its covariance bilinear form. This extends to general UMD spaces a recent result by Veraar and the author, where a pointwise version of \eqref{eq:main} was proved for UMD Banach functions spaces $X$. We show that for continuous martingales, \eqref{eq:main} holds for all $0<p<\infty$, and that for purely discontinuous martingales the right-hand side of \eqref{eq:main} can be expressed more explicitly in terms of the jumps of $M$. For martingales with independent increments, \eqref{eq:main} is shown to hold more generally in reflexive Banach spaces $X$ with finite cotype. In the converse direction, we show that the validity of \eqref{eq:main} for arbitrary martingales implies the UMD property for $X$. As an application we prove various It\^o isomorphisms for vector-valued stochastic integrals with respect to general martingales, which extends earlier results by van Neerven, Veraar, and Weis for vector-valued stochastic integrals with respect to a Brownian motion. We also provide It\^o isomorphisms for vector-valued stochastic integrals with respect to compensated Poisson and general random measures.