Let ��_t, t\in[0,T], be a strong Markov process with values in a complete separable metric space (X,��) and with transition probability function P_{s,t}(x,dy), 0\le s\le t\le T, x\in X. For any h\in[0,T] and a>0, consider the function ��(h,a)=sup\bigl{P_{s,t}\bigl(x,{y:��(x,y)\ge a}\bigr):x\in X,0\le s\le t\le (s+h)\wedge T\bigr}. It is shown that a certain growth condition on ��(h,a), as a\downarrow0 and h stays fixed, implies the almost sure boundedness of the p-variation of ��_t, where p depends on the rate of growth.

Published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org) in the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009117904000000423