A regularized Kellerer theorem in arbitrary dimension

We present a multidimensional extension of Kellerer’s theorem on the existence of mimicking Markov martingales for peacocks, a term derived from the French for stochastic processes increasing in convex order. For a continuous-time peacock in arbitrary dimension, after Gaussian regularization, we show that there exists a strongly Markovian mimicking martingale Itô diffusion. A novel compactness result for martingale diffusions is a key tool in our proof. Moreover, we provide counterexamples to show, in dimension $d\ge 2$, that uniqueness may not hold, and that some regularization is necessary to guarantee existence of a mimicking Markov martingale.