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Gaussianity from Chen–Hermite Balancing and Gaussian Single Increments

Show that any one-dimensional continuous stochastic process whose single increments are Gaussian and which satisfies the Chen–Hermite balancing condition for all adjacent intervals has multivariate normal finite-dimensional distributions; equivalently, establish that such a process is Gaussian.

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Background

The authors discuss that CHABM has the same variance and covariance structure as Brownian motion, and that level-2 balancing yields uncorrelated adjacent increments. They note that proving joint Gaussianity of increments would imply that CHABM is Brownian.

This conjecture targets a more general implication: from Gaussian single increments plus Chen–Hermite balancing across adjacent intervals, deduce that all finite-dimensional distributions are jointly Gaussian. Resolving this would substantiate the stronger CHABM-is-Brownian conjecture.

References

Conjecture Let $(X_t){t\in[0,T]}$ be a $1-$dimensional continuous stochastic process with Gaussian single increments such that the Chen-Hermite balancing condition is satisfied for all adjacent time intervals, i.e., \begin{equation} \sum{i=1}{n-1} \mathbb{E}[H_i(X_{s,u}, -\frac{1}{2}(u-s))\cdot H_{n-i}(X_{u,t}, -\frac{1}{2}(t-u))]=0, \quad\quad\forall0\leq s\leq u\leq t\leq T, \quad \forall n\geq 2. \end{equation} Then $(X_t)_{t\in[0,T]}$ must be a Gaussian process.

Unbiased Rough Integrators and No Free Lunch in Rough-Path-Based Market Models (2509.14529 - Ichiba et al., 18 Sep 2025) in Subsubsection 4.2.1 ‘Some comments on the Chen–Hermite almost Brownian motion’