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An extension of watanabe's theorem of characterization of poisson processes over the positive real half line

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

P. Bremaud*
Affiliation:
CEREMADE, Université de Paris (IX) Dauphine

Abstract

We give an elementary proof of the martingale characterization theorem for Poisson processes over the positive real half line. This theorem is due to Watanabe [8] in the case where the mean measure associated to the Poisson process is the Lebesgue measure.

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Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1975 

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