{"title":"On the continuity of the root barrier","authors":"Erhan Bayraktar, Thomas Bernhardt","doi":"10.1090/proc/15765","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We show that the barrier function in Root's solution to the Skorokhod embedding problem is continuous and finite at every point where the target measure has no atom and its absolutely continuous part is locally bounded away from zero.","PeriodicalId":8470,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Probability","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"arXiv: Probability","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1090/proc/15765","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We show that the barrier function in Root's solution to the Skorokhod embedding problem is continuous and finite at every point where the target measure has no atom and its absolutely continuous part is locally bounded away from zero.