Modern Stochastics: Theory and Applications

We extend the Poincaré–Borel lemma to a weak approximation of a Brownian motion via simple functionals of uniform distributions on n-spheres in the Skorokhod space $D([0,1])$. This approach is used to simplify the proof of the self-normalized Donsker theorem in Csörgő et al. (2003). Some notes on spheres with respect to $\ell _{p}$-norms are given.

We prove that a square-integrable set-indexed stochastic process is a set-indexed Brownian motion if and only if its projection on all the strictly increasing continuous sequences are one-parameter G-time-changed Brownian motions. In addition, we study the “sequence-independent variation” property for group stationary-increment stochastic processes in general and for a set-indexed Brownian motion in particular. We present some applications.