How can I prove that this stochastic process is a time-homogeneous Markov process?

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Why is a random walk $(X_n)_{n\in \mathbb{N}_0}$ on $\mathbb{R}^d $(defined below) a time-homogeneous Markov process? In particular, why does $(X_n)$ satisfy requirement 3 of Def17.3?

Definition of $(X_n)_{n\in \mathbb{N}_0}$

Let $(Y_n)_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$ be i.i.d $\mathbb{R}^d$valued random variables and let

$$S^x_0=x,\;\;\;\;\;S^x_n=x+\sum_{k=1}^n Y_k\;\;\;(n\in \mathbb{N})\;\;\;\;x\in \mathbb{R}^d $$ Define probability measures $P_x on ((\mathbb{R}^d)^{\mathbb{N}_0},(B(\mathbb{R}^d)^{\otimes \mathbb{N}_0}))$ by $P_x=P\circ (S^x)^{−1}$ .
Then the canonical process $$X_n:(\mathbb{R}^d)^{\mathbb{N}_0}\ni x=(x_k)_{k\in \mathbb{N}_0}\mapsto x_n\in \mathbb{R}^d$$ is a Markov chain with distributions $(P_x)_{x\in \mathbb{R}^d}$ .