We derive a nonlinear integral equation to calculate Root's solution of the Skorokhod embedding problem for atom-free target measures. We then use this to efficiently generate bounded time-space increments of Brownian motion and give a parabolic version of Muller's classic "Random walk over spheres" algorithm.
In this short article, we will focus on the different links between some stochastic processes resulting from Brownian motion and two notions of probability theory (proportional increments and last hitting times).
We consider anisotropic self-similar random fields, in particular, the fractional Brownian sheet. This Gaussian field is an extension of fractional Brownian motion. We prove some properties of covariance function for self-similar fields with rectangular increments. Using Lamperti transformation we obtain properties of covariance function for the corresponding stationary fields. We present an example of a Gaussian self-similar field with stationary rectangular increments that is not a fractional Brownian sheet.
In this paper, we show an approximation in law of the complex Brownian motion by processes constructed from a stochastic process with independent increments. We give sufficient conditions for the characteristic function of the process with independent increments that ensure the existence of the approximation. We apply these results to Lévy processes. Finally we extend this results to the $m$-dimensional complex Brownian motion.
The Lévy-Ciesielski Construction of Brownian motion is used to determine non-asymptotic estimates for the maximal deviation of increments of a Brownian motion process $(W_{t})_{t\in \left[ 0,T\right] }$ normalized by the global modulus function, for all positive $\varepsilon $ and $δ$. Additionally, uniform results over $δ$ are obtained. Using the same method, non-asymptotic estimates for the distribution function for the standard Brownian motion normalized by its local modulus of continuity are obtained. Similar results for the truncated Brownian motion are provided and play a crucial role in…
Our purpose is to investigate properties for processes with stationary and independent increments under $G$-expectation. As applications, we prove the martingale characterization to $G$-Brownian motion and present a decomposition for generalized $G$-Brownian motion.
Central limit theorems for squared increment sums of fractional Brownian fields based on a Delaunay triangulation in $2D$
Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale(法国北部海岸大学);Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, Institut de Science Financière et d’Assurances(里昂大学,里昂第一大学,金融与保险科学学院);Laboratory in Finance and Insurance - LFA CREST - Center for Research in Economics and Statistics, ENSAE(金融与保险实验室-LFA CREST-经济与统计研究中心,巴黎国立高等经济学院)
We proof a limit theorem for moments in space of the increments of Brownian local time. As special cases for the second and third moments, previous results by Chen et al. (Ann. Prob. 38, 2010, no. 1) and Rosen (Stoch. Dyn. 11, 2011, no. 1), which were later reproven by Hu and Nualart (Electron. Commun. Probab. 14, 2009; Electron. Commun. Probab. 15, 2010) and Rosen (Séminaire de Probabilités XLIII, Springer, 2011) are included. Furthermore, a conjecture of Rosen for the fourth moment is settled. In comparison to the previous methods of proof, we follow a fundamentally different approach by exc…
Let $\{L^{x}_{t} ; (x,t)\in R^{1}\times R^{1}_{+}\}$ denote the local time of Brownian motion. Our main result is to show that for each fixed $t$ $${\int (L^{x+h}_t- L^x_t)^3 dx-12h\int (L^{x+h}_t - L^x_t)L^x_t dx-24h^{2}t\over h^2} \stackrel{\mathcal{L}}{\Longrightarrow}\sqrt{192}(\int (L^x_t)^3dx)^{1/2}η$$ as $h\to 0$, where $η$ is a normal random variable with mean zero and variance one that is independent of $L^{x}_{t}$. This generalizes our previous result for the second moment. We also explain why our approach will not work for higher moments
Limit theorems for squared increment sums of the maximum of two isotropic fractional Brownian fields under fixed-domain asymptotics
Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale(滨海大学);Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, Institut de Science Financière et d’Assurances(里昂大学,里昂第一大学,金融与保险科学学院);Laboratory in Finance and Insurance - LFA CREST - Center for Research in Economics and Statistics, ENSAE(金融与保险实验室-LFA CREST-经济与统计研究中心,国家经济统计学院)
The study of random polynomials has a long and rich history. This paper studies random algebraic polynomials $P_n(x) = a_0 + a_1 x + \ldots + a_{n-1} x^{n-1}$ where the coefficients $(a_k)$ are correlated random variables taken as the increments $X(k+1) - X(k)$, $k\in \mathbb{N}$, of a fractional Brownian motion $X$ of Hurst index $0< H < 1$. This reduces to the classical setting of independent coefficients for $H = 1/2$. We obtain that the average number of the real zeros of $P_n(x)$ is~$\sim K_H \log n$, for large $n$, where $K_H = (1 + 2 \sqrt{H(1-H)})/π$ (a generalisation of a classical re…
We describe an exact simulation algorithm for the increments of Brownian motion on a sphere of arbitrary dimension, based on the skew-product decomposition of the process with respect to the standard geodesic distance. The radial process is closely related to a Wright-Fisher diffusion, increments of which can be simulated exactly using the recent work of Jenkins & Spanò (2017) [JS17]. The rapid spinning phenomenon of the skew-product decomposition then yields the algorithm for the increments of the process on the sphere.
In this article we propose a new explicit Euler-type approximation method for stochastic differential equations (SDEs). In this method, Brownian increments in the recursion of the Euler method are replaced by suitable bounded functions of the Brownian increments. We prove strong convergence rate one-half for a large class of SDEs with polynomial coefficient functions whose local monotonicity constant grows at most like the logarithm of a Lyapunov-type function.
We investigate here the Central Limit Theorem of the Increment Ratio Statistic of a multifractional Brownian motion, leading to a CLT for the time varying Hurst index. The proofs are quite simple relying on Breuer-Major theorems and an original freezing of time strategy. A simulation study shows the goodness of fit of this estimator.
We prove large deviations principles (LDPs) for the perimeter and the area of the convex hull of a planar random walk with finite Laplace transform of its increments. We give explicit upper and lower bounds for the rate function of the perimeter in terms of the rate function of the increments. These bounds coincide and thus give the rate function for a wide class of distributions which includes the Gaussians and the rotationally invariant ones. For random walks with such increments, large deviations of the perimeter are attained by the trajectories that asymptotically align into line segments.…
Let $W_t$ be a standard Brownian motion. It is well-known that the Langevin equation $d U_t = -θU_td t + d W_t$ defines a stationary process called Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. Furthermore, Langevin equation can be used to construct other stationary processes by replacing Brownian motion $W_t$ with some other process $G$ with stationary increments. In this article we prove that the converse also holds and all continuous stationary processes arise from a Langevin equation with certain noise $G=G_θ$. Discrete analogies of our results are given and applications are discussed.
We provide a simple algorithm for construction of Brownian paths approximating those of a Lévy process on a finite time interval. It requires knowledge of the Lévy process trajectory on a chosen regular grid and the law of its endpoint, or the ability to simulate from that. This algorithm is based on reordering of Brownian increments, and it can be applied in a recursive manner. We establish an upper bound on the mean squared maximal distance between the paths and determine a suitable mesh size in various asymptotic regimes. The analysis proceeds by reduction to the comonotonic coupling of inc…
Using recent results on the behavior of multiple Wiener-Itô integrals based on Stein's method, we prove Hsu-Robbins and Spitzer's theorems for sequences of correlated random variables related to the increments of the fractional Brownian motion.
We introduce two general non-parametric methods for recovering paths of the Brownian and jump components from high-frequency observations of a Lévy process. The first procedure relies on reordering of independently sampled normal increments and thus avoids tuning parameters. The functionality of this method is a consequence of the small time predominance of the Brownian component, the presence of exchangeable structures, and fast convergence of normal empirical quantile functions. The second procedure amounts to filtering the increments and compensating with the final value. It requires a care…
Error Distribution of the Local Linearization Method for Stochastic Differential Equations with Additive Brownian Noise
Graduate School of Engineering Science, The University of Osaka(大阪大学工学研究科);Department of Statistics, London School of Economics and Political Science(伦敦政治经济学院统计学系)
We study properties of the random metric space called the Brownian map. For every h>0, we consider the connected components of the complement of the open ball of radius h centered at the root, and we let N(h,r) be the number of those connected components that intersect the complement of the ball of radius h+r. We then prove that r^3N(h,r) converges as r tends to 0 to a constant times the density at h of the profile of distances from the root. In terms of the Brownian cactus, this gives asymptotics for the number of vertices at height h that have descendants at height h+r. Our proofs are based …
Strong approximations of uniform transport processes to the standard Brownian motion rely on the Skorokhod embedding of random walk with centered double exponential increments. In this note we make such an embedding explicit by means of a Poissonian scheme, which both simplifies classic constructions of strong approximations of uniform transport processes (Griego et al. (1971)) and improves their rate of strong convergence (Gorostiza et al. (1980)). We finalise by providing an extension regarding the embedding of a random walk with asymmetric double exponential increments.
The generalized grey Brownian motion is a time continuous self-similar with stationary increments stochastic process whose one dimensional distributions are the fundamental solutions of a stretched time fractional differential equation. Moreover, the distribution of the time-changed Brownian motion by an inverse stable process solves the same equation, hence both processes have the same one dimensional distribution. In this paper we show the mutual singularity of the probability measures on the path space which are induced by generalized grey Brownian motion and the time-changed Brownian motio…
This paper reviews and extends some recent results on the multivariate fractional Brownian motion (mfBm) and its increment process. A characterization of the mfBm through its covariance function is obtained. Similarly, the correlation and spectral analyses of the increments are investigated. On the other hand we show that (almost) all mfBm's may be reached as the limit of partial sums of (super)linear processes. Finally, an algorithm to perfectly simulate the mfBm is presented and illustrated by some simulations.
We consider a stochastic process $Y$ defined by an integral in quadratic mean of a deterministic function $f$ with respect to a Gaussian process $X$, which need not have stationary increments. For a class of Gaussian processes $X$, it is proved that sums of properly weighted powers of increments of $Y$ over a sequence of partitions of a time interval converge almost surely. The conditions of this result are expressed in terms of the $p$-variation of the covariance function of $X$. In particular, the result holds when $X$ is a fractional Brownian motion, a subfractional Brownian motion and a bi…
In this article, we study the numerical approximation of stochastic differential equations driven by a multidimensional fractional Brownian motion (fBm) with Hurst parameter greater than 1/3. We introduce an implementable scheme for these equations, which is based on a second order Taylor expansion, where the usual Levy area terms are replaced by products of increments of the driving fBm. The convergence of our scheme is shown by means of a combination of rough paths techniques and error bounds for the discretisation of the Levy area terms.
We study the persistence probability for processes with stationary increments. Our results apply to a number of examples: sums of stationary correlated random variables whose scaling limit is fractional Brownian motion, random walks in random sceneries, random processes in Brownian scenery, and the Matheron-de Marsily model in Z^2 with random orientations of the horizontal layers. Using a new approach, strongly related to the study of the range, we obtain an upper bound of optimal order in the general case and improved lower bounds (compared to previous literature) for many processes.
Let $(\mathcal{T},d)$ be the random real tree with root $ρ$ coded by a Brownian excursion. So $(\mathcal{T},d)$ is (up to normalisation) Aldous CRT \cite{AldousI} (see Le Gall \cite{LG91}). The $a$-level set of $\mathcal{T}$ is the set $\mathcal{T}(a)$ of all points in $\mathcal{T}$ that are at distance $a$ from the root. We know from Duquesne and Le Gall \cite{DuLG06} that for any fixed $a\in (0, \infty)$, the measure $\ell^a$ that is induced on $\mathcal{T}(a)$ by the local time at $a$ of the Brownian excursion, is equal, up to a multiplicative constant, to the Hausdorff measure in $\mathcal…
This paper develops a generalization of Brownian motion with stationary, autocorrelated increments as a tractable model for problems in business and finance. We show that any real continuous Gaussian Markov process with stationary increments and smooth covariance function is characterized by three parameters quantifying drift, volatility, and autocorrelations. We model a queue as a functional of a process defined by those characteristics and derive its transient distribution conditional on its history.
For a given centered Gaussian process with stationary increments $\{X(t), t\geq 0\}$ and $c>0$, let $$ W_γ(t)=X(t)-ct-γ\inf_{0\leq s\leq t}\left(X(s)-cs\right), \quad t\geq 0$$ denote the $γ$-reflected process, where $γ\in (0,1)$. This process is introduced in the context of risk theory to model surplus process that include tax payments of loss-carry forward type.In this contribution we derive asymptotic approximations of both the ruin probability and the joint distribution of first and last passage times given that ruin occurs. We apply our findings to the cases with $X$ being the multiplex f…
For each $n\in\mathbb{N}$, let $\mathbf{Q}_n$ be a uniform rooted measured quadrangulation of size $n$ conditioned to have $r(n)$ vertices in its root block. We prove that for a suitable function $r(n)$, after rescaling graph distance by $\left(\frac{21}{40\cdot r(n)}\right)^{1/4}$, with an appropriate rescaling of measure, $\mathbf{Q}_n$ converges to a random pointed measured non-compact metric space $\boldsymbol{ \mathcal{S}}$, in the local Gromov-Hausdorff-Prokhorov topology; the space $\boldsymbol{ \mathcal{S}}$ is built by identifying a uniform point of the Brownian map with the distingui…
We consider the problem of Hurst index estimation for solutions of stochastic differential equations driven by an additive fractional Brownian motion. Using techniques of the Malliavin calculus, we analyze the asymptotic behavior of the quadratic variations of the solution, defined via higher order increments. Then we apply our results to construct and study estimators for the Hurst index.
Operator fractional Brownian fields (OFBFs) are Gaussian, stationary-increment vector random fields that satisfy the operator self-similarity relation {X(c^{E}t)}_{t in R^m} L= {c^{H}X(t)}_{t in R^m}. We establish a general harmonizable representation (Fourier domain stochastic integral) for OFBFs. Under additional assumptions, we also show how the harmonizable representation can be reexpressed as a moving average stochastic integral, thus answering an open problem described in Bierme et al.(2007), "Operator scaling stable random fields", Stochastic Processes and their Applications 117, 312--3…
The goal of this paper is to establish a relation between characteristic polynomials of $N\times N$ GUE random matrices $\mathcal{H}$ as $N\to\infty$, and Gaussian processes with logarithmic correlations. We introduce a regularized version of fractional Brownian motion with zero Hurst index, which is a Gaussian process with stationary increments and logarithmic increment structure. Then we prove that this process appears as a limit of $D_N(z)=-\log|\det(\mathcal{H}-zI)|$ on mesoscopic scales as $N\to\infty$. By employing a Fourier integral representation, we use this to prove a continuous anal…