On decoupling in Banach spaces

Abstract

We consider decoupling inequalities for random variables taking values in a Banach space $X$. We restrict the class of distributions that appear as conditional distributions while decoupling and show that each adapted process can be approximated by a Haar type expansion in which only the same conditional distributions appear. Moreover, we show that in our framework a progressive enlargement of the underlying filtration does not effect the decoupling properties (e.g., the constants involved). As special case we deal with one-sided moment inequalities when decoupling dyadic (i.e., Paley-Walsh) martingales. We establish the decoupling constant of ${\mathbb{R}}^d$ with the $l^{\infty }$-norm. As an example of an application, we demonstrate that Burkholder-Davis-Gundy type inequalities for stochastic integrals of $X$-valued processes can be obtained from decoupling inequalities for $X$-valued dyadic martingales.