Is the absolute value of Brownian motion a super martingale?Is it a sub martingale? Is it a Markov process?

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I've just started to study random processes and I'm trying to solve the following problem:

Let $W(t)$ be a Brownian motion with filtration $F(t)$ generated by $ W(t)$ (i.e., $F(t)=\sigma \left( W(s)\right) $, $s \in [0,t]$).

  • Is the process $|W(t)|$ a sub martingale? A super martingale? Or neither?
  • Is $|W(t)|$ a Markov process?

Unfortunately, I can't see how to do that using the definition of sub/super martingale.. Any help will be appreciated!