{ "id": "1001.3619", "version": "v3", "published": "2010-01-20T15:26:21.000Z", "updated": "2023-06-27T16:34:39.000Z", "title": "The measurability of hitting times", "authors": [ "Richard F. Bass" ], "comment": "This is a post-publication version that has a correction incorporated", "categories": [ "math.PR" ], "abstract": "Under very general conditions the hitting time of a set by a stochastic process is a stopping time. We give a new simple proof of this fact. The section theorems for optional and predictable sets are easy corollaries of the proof.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2011-09-28T17:32:44.000Z", "abstract": "Under very general conditions the hitting time of a set by a stochastic process is a stopping time. We give a new simple proof of this fact. The section theorems foroptional and predictable sets are easy corollaries of the proof.", "journal": null, "doi": null }, { "version": "v3", "updated": "2023-06-27T16:34:39.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "60G07" ], "keywords": [ "hitting time", "measurability", "section theorems foroptional", "stochastic process", "general conditions" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }