{ "id": "1705.08046", "version": "v1", "published": "2017-05-23T00:00:32.000Z", "updated": "2017-05-23T00:00:32.000Z", "title": "An Elementary Proof for the Structure of Derivatives in Probability Measures", "authors": [ "Cong Wu", "Jianfeng Zhang" ], "comment": "3 pages", "categories": [ "math.PR" ], "abstract": "Let $F: \\mathbb{L}^2(\\Omega, \\mathbb{R}) \\to \\mathbb{R}$ be a law invariant and continuously Fr\\'echet differentiable mapping. Based on Lions \\cite{Lions}, Cardaliaguet \\cite{Cardaliaguet} (Theorem 6.2 and 6.5) proved that: \\bea \\label{Derivative} D F (\\xi) = g(\\xi), \\eea where $g: \\mathbb{R} \\to \\mathbb{R}$ is a deterministic function which depends only on the law of $\\xi$. See also Carmona \\& Delarue \\cite{CD} Section 5.2. In this short note we provide an elementary proof for this well known result. This note is part of our accompanying paper \\cite{WZ}, which deals with a more general situation.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2017-05-23T00:00:32.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "elementary proof", "probability measures", "derivatives", "law invariant", "general situation" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 3, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }