On the expectation of normalized Brownian functionals up to first hitting times

Abstract

Let $B$ be a Brownian motion and $T_1$ its first hitting time of the level $1$. For $U$ a uniform random variable independent of $B$, we study in depth the distribution of $B_{UT_1}/\sqrt{T_1}$, that is the rescaled Brownian motion sampled at uniform time. In particular, we show that this variable is centered.