# Reflected vs conditioned

Let $A\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ be an bounded open convex connected set (possibly with some regularity assumptions).

Now we consider $B_1$ to be a Brownian motion conditioned to stay in $A$ and $B_2$ a Brownian motion reflected on the boundary of $A$.

Is it true that $B_1$ is "better concentrated" than $B_2$?

This vague statement seems to be intuitively appealing (at least for me :)).

I have a few ideas how to formalize "better concentrated" but since I cannot prove (or refute) any of them I prefer to leave it unspecified. I would happy to see any "descent" notion here.

Here is one way to formalize "concentrated": for large time, the density of the conditioned process converges to the top eigenfunction of the laplacian with Dirichlet boundary conditions, while the reflected one converges to the uniform density on A. The former puts less mass near the boundary'' (take A= square as example). More formally, for a tubular neighborhood of width $\epsilon$ around $\partial A$, the uniform (=reflected) will put mass proportional to $\epsilon$ while the Dirichlet one (=conditioned) with put mass proportional to $\epsilon^2$.