A note on the planar Skorokhod embedding problem

Abstract

The planar Skorokhod embedding problem was first proposed and solved by R. Gross in 2019 [#gross2019]. Gross worked with probability distributions having finite second moment. In [#boudabra2019remarks, #Boudabra2020], the solutions extended to all distributions with a finite $p^{th}$ moment for $p>1$. The case $p=1$ remained uncovered since then. In this note we show that the planar Skorokhod embedding problem is solvable for $p=1$ when the Hilbert transform of its quantile function is integrable, effectively closing this line of investigation.

To appear in Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society, God willing