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Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991002947909707536

Titolo

Lévy matters V [e-book] : functionals of Lévy processes / by Lars Nørvang Andersen ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham [Switzerland] : Springer, 2015

ISBN

9783319231389

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 224 pages)

Collana

Lévy matters ; 5

Lecture notes in mathematics, 1617-9692 ; 2149

Classificazione

AMS 60-06

AMS 60E07

AMS 60F99

AMS 60G51

AMS 60K25

LC QA274.73

Altri autori (Persone)

Andersen, Lars Nørvangauthor

Disciplina

519.2

Soggetti

Lévy processes

Probabilities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references

Nota di contenuto

Makoto Maejima: Classes of infinitely divisible distributions and examples ; Lars Nørvang Andersen, Søren Asmussen, Peter W. Glynn and Mats Pihlsgard: Lévy processes with two-sided reflection ; Persistence probabilities and exponents ; Frank Aurzada and Thomas Simon: Persistence probabilities and exponents

Sommario/riassunto

This three-chapter volume concerns the distributions of certain functionals of Lévy processes. The first chapter, by Makoto Maejima, surveys representations of the main sub-classes of infinitesimal distributions in terms of mappings of certain Lévy processes via stochastic integration. The second chapter, by Lars Nørvang Andersen, Søren Asmussen, Peter W. Glynn and Mats Pihlsgård, concerns Lévy processes reflected at two barriers, where reflection is formulated à la Skorokhod. These processes can be used to model systems with a finite capacity, which is crucial in many real life situations, a most important quantity being the overflow or the loss occurring at the upper barrier. If a process is killed when crossing the boundary, a natural question



concerns its lifetime. Deep formulas from fluctuation theory are the key to many classical results, which are reviewed in the third chapter by Frank Aurzada and Thomas Simon. The main part, however, discusses recent advances and developments in the setting where the process is given either by the partial sum of a random walk or the integral of a Lévy process