We study stochastic tree fluid networks driven by a multidimensional Levy process. We are interested in (the joint distribution of) the steady-state content in each of the buffers, the busy periods, and the idle periods. To investigate these fluid networks, we relate the above three quantities to fluctuations of the input Levy process by solving a multidimensional Skorokhod reflection problem. This leads to the analysis of the distribution of the componentwise maximums, the corresponding epochs at which they are attained, and the beginning of the first last-passage excursion. Using the notion of splitting times, we are able to find their Laplace transforms. It turns out that, if the components of the Levy process are `ordered', the Laplace transform has a so-called quasi-product form.
The theory is illustrated by working out special cases, such as tandem networks and priority queues.
In this paper, we establish a large deviation principle for stochastic models of two-dimensional second grade fluids driven by Lévy noise. The weak convergence method introduced by Budhiraja, Dupuis and Maroulas in [5] plays a key role.
We consider a stochastic model of incompressible non-Newtonian fluids of second grade on a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^2$ driven by Lévy noise. Applying the variational approach, global existence and uniqueness of strong probabilistic solution is established.
In this note we prove that the speed of convergence of the workload of a Lévy-driven queue to the quasi-stationary distribution is of order $1/t$. We identify also the Laplace transform of the measure giving this speed and provide some examples.
In this paper, we consider a Lévy-driven fluid queueing system where the server may subject to breakdowns and repairs. In addition, the server will leave for a vacation each time when he finds an empty system. We cast the queueing process as a Lévy process modified to have random jumps at two classes of stopping times. By using the Kella-Whitt martingale method, we obtain the limiting distribution of the virtual waiting time process. Moreover, we investigate the busy period, the correlation structure and the stochastic decomposition properties. These results may be generalized to Lévy processe…
In this paper we study the stationary workload distribution of a fluid tandem queue in heavy traffic. We consider different types of Lévy input, covering compound Poisson, $α$-stable Lévy motion (with $1<α<2$), and Brownian motion. In our analysis we separately deal with Lévy input processes with increments that have finite and infinite variance. A distinguishing feature of this paper is that we do not only consider the usual heavy-traffic regime, in which the load at one of the nodes goes to unity, but also a regime in which we simultaneously let the load of both servers tend to one, which, a…
We consider a queuing model with the workload evolving between consecutive i.i.d.\ exponential timers $\{e_q^{(i)}\}_{i=1,2,...}$ according to a spectrally positive Lévy process $Y_i(t)$ that is reflected at zero, and where the environment $i$ equals 0 or 1. When the exponential clock $e_q^{(i)}$ ends, the workload, as well as the Lévy input process, are modified; this modification may depend on the current value of the workload, the maximum and the minimum workload observed during the previous cycle, and the environment $i$ of the Lévy input process itself during the previous cycle. We analys…
For spectrally positive Lévy processes killed on exiting the half-line, existence of a quasi-stationary distribution is characterized by the exponential integrability of the exit time, the Laplace exponent and the non-negativity of the scale functions. It is proven that if there is a quasi-stationary distribution, there are necessarily infinitely many ones and the set of quasi-stationary distributions is characterized. A sufficient condition for the minimal quasi-stationary distribution to be the Yaglom limit is given.
In recent years there has been some focus on quasi-stationary behaviour of an one-dimensional Lévy process $X$, where we ask for the law $P(X_t\in dy | τ^-_0>t)$ for $t\to\infty$ and $τ_0^-=\inf\{t\geq 0: X_t<0\}$. In this paper we address the same question for so-called Parisian ruin time $τ^θ$, that happens when process stays below zero longer than independent exponential random variable with intensity $θ$.
We jointly investigate the existence of quasi-stationary distributions for one dimensional Lévy processes and the existence of traveling waves for the Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovskii-Piskunov (F-KPP) equation associated with the same motion. Using probabilistic ideas developed by S. Harris, we show that the existence of a traveling wave for the F-KPP equation associated with a centered Lévy processes that branches at rate $r$ and travels at velocity $c$ is equivalent to the existence of a quasi-stationary distribution for a Lévy process with the same movement but drifted by $-c$ and killed at zer…
An infinitely divisible distribution on $\mathbb{R}$ is a probability measure $μ$ such that the characteristic function $\hatμ$ has a Lévy-Khintchine representation with characteristic triplet $(a,γ, ν)$, where $ν$ is a Lévy measure, $γ\in\mathbb{R}$ and $a\ge 0$. A natural extension of such distributions are quasi-infinitely distributions. Instead of a Lévy measure, we assume that $ν$ is a "signed Lévy measure", for further information on the definition see [\ref{Lindner}]. We show that a distribution $μ=pδ_{x_0}+(1-p)μ_{ac}$ with $p>0$ and $x_0 \in \mathbb{R}$, where $μ_{ac}$ is the absolute…
We investigate the algebra of repeated integrals of semimartingales. We prove that a minimal family of semimartingales generates a quasi-shuffle algebra. In essence, to fulfill the minimality criterion, first, the family must be a minimal generator of the algebra of repeated integrals generated by its elements and by quadratic covariation processes recursively constructed from the elements of the family. Second, recursively constructed quadratic covariation processes may lie in the linear span of previously constructed ones and of the family, but may not lie in the linear span of repeated inte…
Inspired by the notion of quasi-infinite divisibility (QID), we introduce and study the class of freely quasi-infinitely divisible (FQID) distributions on $\mathbb{R}$, i.e. distributions which admit the free Lévy-Khintchine-type representation with signed Lévy measure. We prove several properties of the FQID class, some of them in contrast to those of the QID class. For example, a FQID distribution may have negative Gaussian part, and the total mass of its signed Lévy measure may be negative. Finally, we extend the Bercovici-Pata bijection, providing a characteristic triplet, with the Lévy me…
In this paper we analyze the quasi-stationary workload of a Lévy-driven storage system. More precisely, assuming the system is in stationarity, we study its behavior conditional on the event that the busy period $T$ in which time 0 is contained has not ended before time $t$, as $t\to\infty$. We do so by first identifying the double Laplace transform associated with the workloads at time 0 and time $t$, on the event $\{T>t\}.$ This transform can be explicitly computed for the case of spectrally one-sided jumps. Then asymptotic techniques for Laplace inversion are relied upon to find the corresp…
In this paper we study the properties of the Poisson random measure and the Poisson integral associated with a G-Levy process. We prove that a Poisson integral is a G-Levy process and give the conditions which ensure that a Poisson integral belongs to a good space of random variables. In particular, we study the relation between the quasi- continuity of an integrand and the quasi-continuity of the integral. Lastly, we apply the results to establish the pathwise decomposition of a G-Levy process into a generalized G-Brownian motion and a pure-jump G-Levy process and prove that both processes be…
In this paper, we studied quasi-periodic and almost periodic homogenizations of integro-differential equations with Levy operators, which contain alpha stable Levy densities. This is the intermediate stage between the periodic homogenization and the stochastic homogenization of the non-local problem, and is the straight forward generalization of the case of partial differential equations.
A quasi-infinitely divisible distribution on $\mathbb{R}^d$ is a probability distribution $μ$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$ whose characteristic function can be written as the quotient of the characteristic functions of two infinitely divisible distributions on $\mathbb{R}^d$. Equivalently, it can be characterised as a probability distribution whose characteristic function has a Lévy--Khintchine type representation with a "signed Lévy measure", a so called quasi--Lévy measure, rather than a Lévy measure. A systematic study of such distributions in the univariate case has been carried out in Lindner, Pan a…
We present remarkably simple proofs of Burkholder-Davis-Gundy inequalities for stochastic integrals and maximal inequalities for stochastic convolutions in Banach spaces driven by Lévy-type processes. Exponential estimates for stochastic convolutions are obtained and two versions of Itô's formula in Banach spaces are also derived. Based on the obtained maximal inequality, the existence and uniqueness of mild solutions of stochastic quasi-geostrophic equation with Lévy noise is established.
A quasi-infinitely divisible distribution on $\mathbb{R}$ is a probability distribution whose characteristic function allows a Lévy-Khintchine type representation with a "signed Lévy measure", rather than a Lévy measure. Quasi-infinitely divisible distributions appear naturally in the factorization of infinitely divisible distributions. Namely, a distribution $μ$ is quasi-infinitely divisible if and only if there are two infinitely divisible distributions $μ_1$ and $μ_2$ such that $μ_1 \ast μ= μ_2$. The present paper studies certain properties of quasi-infinitely divisible distributions in ter…
In this article, well-posedness of stochastic anisotropic $p$-Laplace equation driven by Lévy noise is shown. Such an equation in deterministic setting was considered by Lions [7]. The results obtained in this article can be applied to solve a large class of semilinear and quasilinear stochastic partial differential equations.
We prove a dual Yamada-Watanabe theorem for one-dimensional stochastic differential equations driven by quasi-left continuous semimartingales with independent increments. In particular, our result covers stochastic differential equations driven by (time-inhomogeneous) Levy processes. More precisely, we prove that weak uniqueness, i.e. uniqueness in law, implies weak joint uniqueness, i.e. joint uniqueness in law for the solution process and its driver.
In this paper, BDG-type inequality for G-stochastic calculus with respect to G-Levy process is obtained and solutions of stochastic differential equations driven by G-Levy process under non-Lipschitz condition are constructed. Moreover, we establish the mean square exponential stability and quasi sure exponential stability of the solutions be means of G-Lyapunov function method. An example is presented to illustrate the efficiency of the obtained results.
In this paper, we establish a moderate deviation principle for stochastic models of two-dimensional second grade fluids driven by Lévy noise. We will adopt the weak convergence approach. Because of the appearance of jumps, this result is significantly different from that in Gaussian case.
We consider a stochastic fluid queue served by a constant rate server and driven by a process which is the local time of a certain Markov process. Such a stochastic system can be used as a model in a priority service system, especially when the time scales involved are fast. The input (local time) in our model is always singular with respect to the Lebesgue measure which in many applications is ``close'' to reality. We first discuss how to rigorously construct the (necessarily) unique stationary version of the system under some natural stability conditions. We then consider the distribution of…
In this article we study a class of stochastic functional differential equations driven by Lévy processes (in particular, $α$-stable processes), and obtain the existence and uniqueness of Markov solutions in small time intervals. This corresponds to the local solvability to a class of quasi-linear partial integro-differential equations. Moreover, in the constant diffusion coefficient case, without any assumptions on the Lévy generator, we also show the existence of a unique maximal weak solution for a class of semi-linear partial integro-differential equation systems under bounded Lipschitz as…
We construct an efficient integrator for stochastic differential systems driven by Levy processes. An efficient integrator is a strong approximation that is more accurate than the corresponding stochastic Taylor approximation, to all orders and independent of the governing vector fields. This holds provided the driving processes possess moments of all orders and the vector fields are sufficiently smooth. Moreover the efficient integrator in question is optimal within a broad class of perturbations for half-integer global root mean-square orders of convergence. We obtain these results using the…
For a broad class of the Levy processes the new form (convolution type) of the infinitesimal generators is introduced. It leads to the new notions: a truncated generator, a quasi-potential. The probability of the Levy process remaining within the given domain is estimated.
In this paper, we study the long-time behavior of a fluid particle immersed in a turbulent fluid driven by a diffusion with jumps, that is, a Feller process associated with a non-local operator. We derive the law of large numbers and central limit theorem for the evolution process of the tracked fluid particle in the cases when the driving process: (i) has periodic coefficients, (ii) is ergodic or (iii) is a class of Lévy processes. The presented results generalize the classical and well-known results for fluid flows driven by elliptic diffusion processes.
In our previous paper (ArXiv:1306.1492) we have proved that a representation of the infinitesimal generators $L$ for Levy processes $X_t$ can be written down in a convolution type form. For the case of non-summable Levy measures we constructed the quasi-potential operators $B$ and investigated the long time behavior of $X_t$. In the present paper we consider Levy processes $X_t$ with summable Levy measures. In this case the form of the quasi-potential operators $B$ essentially differs from the form in the case of non-summable Levy measures. We use this new form in order to study the long time …
We present a new method for sampling the Levy area for a two-dimensional Wiener process conditioned on its endpoints. An efficient sampler for the Levy area is required to implement a strong Milstein numerical scheme to approximate the solution of a stochastic differential equation driven by a two-dimensional Wiener process whose diffusion vector fields do not commute. Our method is simple and complementary to those of Gaines-Lyons and Wiktorsson, and amenable to quasi-Monte--Carlo implementation. It is based on representing the Levy area by an infinite weighted sum of independent Logistic ran…
This work is devoted to investigating stochastic turbulence for the fluid flow in one-dimensional viscous Burgers equation perturbed by Lévy space-time white noise with the periodic boundary condition. We rigorously discuss the regularity of solutions and their statistical quantities in this stochastic dynamical system. The quantities are such as the moment estimate, the structure function and the energy spectrum of the turbulent velocity field. Furthermore, we provide qualitative and quantitative properties of the stochastic Burgers equation when the kinematic viscosity ν tends towards zero. …
In this article we consider the Levy processes and the corresponding semigroup. We represent the generator of this semigroup in a convolution form. Using the obtained convolution form and the theory of integral equations we investigate the properties of a wide class of Levy processes (potential, quasi-potential, the probability of the Levy process remaining within the given domain, long time behavior, stable processes). We analyze in detail a number of concrete examples of the Levy processes (stable processes, the variance damped Levy processes, the variance gamma processes, the normal Gaussia…
In this paper we consider a ring of $N\ge 1$ queues served by a single server in a cyclic order. After having served a queue (according to a service discipline that may vary from queue to queue), there is a switch-over period and then the server serves the next queue and so forth. This model is known in the literature as a \textit{polling model}. Each of the queues is fed by a non-decreasing Lévy process, which can be different during each of the consecutive periods within the server's cycle. The $N$-dimensional Lévy processes obtained in this fashion are described by their (joint) Laplace exp…
This paper focuses on hypothesis testing for the input of a Lévy-driven storage system by sampling of the storage level. As the likelihood is not explicit we propose two tests that rely on transformation of the data. The first approach uses i.i.d. `quasi-busy-periods' between observations of zero workload. The distribution of the duration of quasi-busy-periods is determined. The second method is a conditional likelihood ratio test based on the Bernoulli events of observing a zero or positive workload, conditional on the previous workload. Performance analysis is presented for both tests along …
Let $a(1) >0$, $a(n) \ge 0$ for $n \ge 2$ and $a(n) = O(n^\varepsilon)$ for any $\varepsilon >0$, and put $Z(σ+ it):= \sum_{n=1}^\infty a(n) n^{-σ- it}$ where $σ, t \in {\mathbb{R}}$. In the present paper, we show that any zeta distribution whose characteristic function is defined by ${\mathcal{Z}}_σ(t) :=Z(σ+ it)/Z(σ)$ is pretended infinitely divisible if $σ>1$ is sufficiently large. Moreover, we prove that if ${\mathcal{Z}}_σ(t)$ is an infinitely divisible characteristic function for some $σ_{id} >1$, then ${\mathcal{Z}}_σ(t)$ is infinitely divisible for all $σ>1$. Note that the correspondin…
In this paper, we investigate stochastic partial differential equations driven by multi-parameter anisotropic fractional Levy noises, including the stochastic Poisson equation, the linear heat equation, and the quasi-linear heat equation. Well-posedness of these equations under the fractional noises will be addressed. The multi-parameter anisotropic fractional Levy noise is defined as the formal derivative of the anisotropic fractional Levy random field. In doing so, there are two folds involved. First, we consider the anisotropic fractional Levy random field as the generalized functional of t…
In the present paper we show that the Levy-Ito representation of the infinitesimal generator $L$ for Levy processes $X_t$ can be written in a convolution-type form. Using the obtained convolution form we have constructed the quasi-potential operator $B$. We denote by $p(t,Δ)$ the probability that a sample of the process $X_t$ remains inside the domain $Δ$ for $0{\leq}τ{\leq}t$ (ruin problem). With the help of the operator $B$ we find a new formula for $p(t,Δ)$. This formula allows us to obtain long time behavior of $p(t,Δ)$.
The infinite (in both directions) sequence of the distributions $μ^{(k)}$ of the stochastic integrals $\int_0^{\infty-}c^{-N_{t-}^{(k)}} dL_t^{(k)}$ for integers $k$ is investigated. Here $c>1$ and $(N_t^{(k)},L_t^{(k)})$, $t\geq0$, is a bivariate compound Poisson process with Lévy measure concentrated on three points $(1,0)$, $(0,1)$, $(1,c^{-k})$. The amounts of the normalized Lévy measure at these points are denoted by $p$, $q$, $r$. For $k=0$ the process $(N_t^{(0)},L_t^{(0)})$ is marginally Poisson and $μ^{(0)}$ has been studied by Lindner and Sato (Ann. Probab. 37 (2009), 250-274). The d…
The question of existence and properties of stationary solutions to Langevin equations driven by noise processes with stationary increments is discussed, with particular focus on noise processes of pseudo-moving-average type. On account of the Wold-Karhunen decomposition theorem, such solutions are, in principle, representable as a moving average (plus a drift-like term) but the kernel in the moving average is generally not available in explicit form. A class of cases is determined where an explicit expression of the kernel can be given, and this is used to obtain information on the asymptotic…
