On the exponential Orlicz norms of stopped Brownian motion
Necessary and sufficient conditions are found for the exponential Orlicz norm (generated by with 0 < p ≤ 2) of or to be finite, where is a standard Brownian motion and τ is a stopping time for B. The conditions are in terms of the moments of the stopping time τ. For instance, we find that as soon as for some constant C > 0 as k → ∞ (or equivalently ). In particular, if τ ∼ Exp(λ) or then the last condition is satisfied, and we obtain with some universal constant K > 0....