Definition
Let be a probability space with a filtration, for some (totally ordered) index set ; and let be a measurable space. A -valued stochastic process adapted to the filtration is said to possess the Markov property if, for each and each with ,
In the case where is a discrete set with the discrete sigma algebra and, this can be reformulated as follows:
- .
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