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Wiener Integrals of Continuous Functions are Jointly Gaussian

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Reason: Re-version for dependency hygiene: reroutes off the redacted def:continuity-closed-interval-c54-2026b to def:continuous-map-metric-spaces-2026a with the metrics named on both sides, off def:brownian-motion-2026b to -2026c, off lem:continuous-implies-riemann-integrable-c54-2026b to claim 3 of lem:interval-lebesgue-toolkit-2026b, and off lem:mean-square-continuous-ito-integrable-2026a to -2026b. Adds the standard metric-convention sentence. Mathematical content unchanged. · 2,666 chars · 18 deps · depth 23

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Throughout, a real-valued function on a subinterval II of the real numbers R\mathbb{R} is called continuous on II when it is continuous relative to II, both II and the codomain R\mathbb{R} carrying the metric of the real line. Let B=(Bt)t≥0B=(B_t)_{t\ge0} be a standard Brownian motion on a probability space (Ω,F,P)(\Omega,\mathcal{F},P), with its natural filtration (FtB)t≥0(\mathcal{F}^{B}_t)_{t\ge0}, regarded as the It^{o} integrator (B,1)(B,1) of Brownian Motion is an Ito Integrator with Unit Intensity. For a real s>0s>0 and a continuous function f:[0,s]→Rf:[0,s]\to\mathbb{R}, the Wiener integral ∫0sf(u) dBu\int_0^{s}f(u)\,dB_u is the It^{o} integral of the family of constant random variables (f(u))u∈(0,s](f(u))_{u\in(0,s]}, which is It^{o} integrable by claim 3 of Adapted Mean-Square Continuous Processes are Ito Integrable; each Wiener integral is determined up to almost sure equality, and a fixed version is understood wherever one appears below.

1. For every real s>0s>0, taking f≡1f\equiv1 gives ∫0s1 dBu=Bs\int_0^{s}1\,dB_u=B_s almost surely.

2. Let p≥1p\ge1 be a natural number, let s1,…,sp>0s_1,\dots,s_p>0 be real, and for each ii let fi:[0,si]→Rf_i:[0,s_i]\to\mathbb{R} be continuous. Then

(∫0s1f1(u) dBu, …, ∫0spfp(u) dBu)\Bigl(\int_0^{s_1}f_1(u)\,dB_u,\ \dots,\ \int_0^{s_p}f_p(u)\,dB_u\Bigr)

is a Gaussian random vector whose expectations vanish and whose covariances are

Cov⁡(∫0sifi(u) dBu, ∫0sjfj(u) dBu)=∫0min⁡(si,sj)fi(u) fj(u) du,\operatorname{Cov}\Bigl(\int_0^{s_i}f_i(u)\,dB_u,\ \int_0^{s_j}f_j(u)\,dB_u\Bigr)=\int_0^{\min(s_i,s_j)}f_i(u)\,f_j(u)\,du,

the Riemann integral of the continuous product, which exists by claim 3 of Restricted Lebesgue Measure and Integral Toolkit on a Compact Interval. (Since the covariances are unchanged when a random variable is replaced by an almost surely equal one, this holds for every choice of versions.)

3. Consequently, for any choice of versions, the family consisting of all Wiener integrals ∫0sf(u) dBu\int_0^{s}f(u)\,dB_u (over all real s>0s>0 and all continuous f:[0,s]→Rf:[0,s]\to\mathbb{R}) together with all the random variables BtB_t (t≥0t\ge0) is jointly Gaussian.

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