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Excursions in Brownian motion

01 Dec 1976-Arkiv för Matematik (Institut Mittag-Leffler)-Vol. 14, Iss: 1, pp 155-177
About: This article is published in Arkiv för Matematik.The article was published on 1976-12-01 and is currently open access. It has received 222 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Brownian motion.

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01 Jan 1979
TL;DR: In this paper, the second volume follows on from the first, concentrating on stochastic integrals, stochy differential equations, excursion theory and the general theory of processes.
Abstract: This celebrated book has been prepared with readers' needs in mind, remaining a systematic treatment of the subject whilst retaining its vitality. The second volume follows on from the first, concentrating on stochastic integrals, stochastic differential equations, excursion theory and the general theory of processes. Much effort has gone into making these subjects as accessible as possible by providing many concrete examples that illustrate techniques of calculation, and by treating all topics from the ground up, starting from simple cases. Many of the examples and proofs are new; some important calculational techniques appeared for the first time in this book. Together with its companion volume, this book helps equip graduate students for research into a subject of great intrinsic interest and wide application in physics, biology, engineering, finance and computer science.

1,804 citations

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01 Jan 2006
TL;DR: In this paper, the Brownian forest and the additive coalescent were constructed for random walks and random forests, respectively, and the Bessel process was used for random mappings.
Abstract: Preliminaries.- Bell polynomials, composite structures and Gibbs partitions.- Exchangeable random partitions.- Sequential constructions of random partitions.- Poisson constructions of random partitions.- Coagulation and fragmentation processes.- Random walks and random forests.- The Brownian forest.- Brownian local times, branching and Bessel processes.- Brownian bridge asymptotics for random mappings.- Random forests and the additive coalescent.

1,371 citations


Cites background from "Excursions in Brownian motion"

  • ...It is well known [211, 98, 384] that for each fixed T > 0, there are the following identities in distribution derived by Brownian scaling:...

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01 Oct 1991
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss aspects of this incipient general theory which are most closely related to topics of current interest in theoretical stochastic processes, aimed at theoretical probabilists.
Abstract: INTRODUCTION Many different models of random trees have arisen in a variety of applied setting, and there is a large but scattered literature on exact and asymptotic results for particular models. For several years I have been interested in what kinds of “general theory” (as opposed to ad hoc analysis of particular models) might be useful in studying asymptotics of random trees. In this paper, aimed at theoretical probabilists, I discuss aspects of this incipient general theory which are most closely related to topics of current interest in theoretical stochastic processes. No prior knowledge of this subject is assumed: the paper is intended as an introduction and survey. To give the really big picture in a paragraph, consider a tree on n vertices. View the vertices as points in abstract (rather than d -dimensional) space, but let the edges have length (= 1, as a default) so that there is metric structure: the distance between two vertices is the length of the path between them. Consider the average distance between pairs of vertices. As n → ∞ this average distance could stay bounded or could grow as order n , but almost all natural random trees fall into one of two categories. In the first (and larger) category, the average distance grows as order logn. This category includes supercritical branching processes, and most “Markovian growth” models such as those occurring in the analysis of algorithms. This paper is concerned with the second category, in which the average distance grows as order n ½ .

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TL;DR: In this paper, a review of known results which connect Riemann's integral representations of his zeta function, involving Jacobi's theta function and its derivatives, to some particular probability laws governing sums of independent exponential variables is presented.
Abstract: This paper reviews known results which connect Riemann’s integral representations of his zeta function, involving Jacobi’s theta function and its derivatives, to some particular probability laws governing sums of independent exponential variables. These laws are related to one-dimensional Brownian motion and to higher dimensional Bessel processes. We present some characterizations of these probability laws, and some approximations of Riemann’s zeta function which are related to these laws.

304 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors study a new variant of the so-called barrier option: a down-and-out barrier option becomes worthless as soon as a barrier is reached, whereas a down and-out Parisian barrier option is lost by the owner if the underlying asset reaches a prespecified level and remains constantly below this level for a time interval longer than a fixed number.
Abstract: In this paper we study a new kind of option, called hereinafter a Parisian barrier option. This option is the following variant of the so-called barrier option: a down-and-out barrier option becomes worthless as soon as a barrier is reached, whereas a down-and-out Parisian barrier option is lost by the owner if the underlying asset reaches a prespecified level and remains constantly below this level for a time interval longer than a fixed number, called the window. Properties of durations of Brownian excursions play an essential role. We also study another kind of option, called here a cumulative Parisian option, which becomes worthless if the total time spent below a certain level is too long.

253 citations

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05 Jan 1996
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the problem of approximating the Brownian motion by a random walk with respect to the de Moivre-laplace limit theorem and show that it is NP-hard.
Abstract: Prerequisites.- 1. The standard BRownian motion.- 1.1. The standard random walk.- 1.2. Passage times for the standard random walk.- 1.3. Hin?in's proof of the de Moivre-laplace limit theorem.- 1.4. The standard Brownian motion.- 1.5. P. Levy's construction.- 1.6. Strict Markov character.- 1.7. Passage times for the standard Brownian motion.- Note l: Homogeneous differential processes with increasing paths.- 1.8. Kolmogorov's test and the law of the iterated logarithm.- 1.9. P. Levy's Holder condition.- 1.10. Approximating the Brownian motion by a random walk.- 2. Brownian local times.- 2.1. The reflecting Brownian motion.- 2.2. P. Levy's local time.- 2.3. Elastic Brownian motion.- 2.4. t+ and down-crossings.- 2.5. T+ as Hausdorff-Besicovitch 1/2-dimensional measure.- Note 1: Submartingales.- Note 2: Hausdorff measure and dimension.- 2.6. Kac's formula for Brownian functionals.- 2.7. Bessel processes.- 2.8. Standard Brownian local time.- 2.9. BrowNian excursions.- 2.10. Application of the Bessel process to Brownian excursions.- 2.11. A time substitution.- 3. The general 1-dimensional diffusion.- 3.1. Definition.- 3.2. Markov times.- 3.3. Matching numbers.- 3.4. Singular points.- 3.5. Decomposing the general diffusion into simple pieces.- 3.6. Green operators and the space D.- 3.7. Generators.- 3.8. Generators continued.- 3.9. Stopped diffusion.- 4. Generators.- 4.1. A general view.- 4.2. G as local differential operator: conservative non-singular case.- 4.3. G as local differential operator: general non-singular case.- 4.4. A second proof.- 4.5. G at an isolated singular point.- 4.6. Solving G*u = ? u.- 4.7. G as global differential operator: non-singular case.- 4.8. G on the shunts.- 4.9. G as global differential operator: singular case.- 4.10. Passage times.- Note 1: Differential processes with increasing paths.- 4.11. Eigen-differential expansions for Green functions and transition densities.- 4.12. Kolmogorov's test.- 5. Time changes and killing.- 5.1. Construction of sample paths: a general view.- 5.2. Time changes: Q = R1.- 5.3. Time changes: Q = [0, + ?).- 5.4. Local times.- 5.5. Subordination and chain rule.- 5.6. Killing times.- 5.7. Feller's Brownian motions.- 5.8. Ikeda's example.- 5.9. Time substitutions must come from local time integrals.- 5.10. Shunts.- 5.11. Shunts with killing.- 5.12. Creation of mass.- 5.13. A parabolic equation.- 5.14. Explosions.- 5.15. A non-linear parabolic equation.- 6. Local and inverse local times.- 6.1. Local and inverse local times.- 6.2. Levy measures.- 6.3. t and the intervals of [0, + ?) - ?.- 6.4. A counter example: t and the intervals of [0, + ?) - ?.- 6.5a t and downcrossings.- 6.5b t as Hausdorff measure.- 6.5c t as diffusion.- 6.5d Excursions.- 6.6. Dimension numbers.- 6.7. Comparison tests.- Note 1: Dimension numbers and fractional dimensional capacities.- 6.8. An individual ergodic theorem.- 7. Brownian motion in several dimensions.- 7.1. Diffusion in several dimensions.- 7.2. The standard Brownian motion in several dimensions.- 7.3. Wandering out to ?.- 7.4. Greenian domains and Green functions.- 7.5. Excessive functions.- 7.6. Application to the spectrum of ?/2.- 7.7. Potentials and hitting probabilities.- 7.8. Newtonian capacities.- 7.9. Gauss's quadratic form.- 7.10. Wiener's test.- 7.11. Applications of Wiener's test.- 7.12. Dirichlet problem.- 7.13. Neumann problem.- 7.14. Space-time Brownian motion.- 7.15. Spherical Brownian motion and skew products.- 7.16. Spinning.- 7.17. An individual ergodic theorem for the standard 2-dimensional BROWNian motion.- 7.18. Covering Brownian motions.- 7.19. Diffusions with Brownian hitting probabilities.- 7.20. Right-continuous paths.- 7.21. Riesz potentials.- 8. A general view of diffusion in several dimensions.- 8.1. Similar diffusions.- 8.2. G as differential operator.- 8.3. Time substitutions.- 8.4. Potentials.- 8.5. Boundaries.- 8.6. Elliptic operators.- 8.7. Feller's little boundary and tail algebras.- List of notations.

2,063 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors implique l'accord avec les conditions générales d'utilisation (http://www.compositio.org/legal.php).
Abstract: © Foundation Compositio Mathematica, 1940, tous droits réservés. L’accès aux archives de la revue « Compositio Mathematica » (http: //http://www.compositio.nl/) implique l’accord avec les conditions générales d’utilisation (http://www.numdam.org/legal.php). Toute utilisation commerciale ou impression systématique est constitutive d’une infraction pénale. Toute copie ou impression de ce fichier doit contenir la présente mention de copyright.

374 citations

Book
01 Jan 1971
TL;DR: The book as discussed by the authors is part of a trilogy covering the field of Markov processes and provides a readable and constructive treatment of Brownian motion and diffusion, which dispenses with most of the customary transform apparatus.
Abstract: : The book is part of a trilogy covering the field of Markov processes and provides a readable and constructive treatment of Brownian motion and diffusion. It contains some of the author's own research and many of the proofs are new. It dispenses with most of the customary transform apparatus, and the chapter on Brownian motion emphasizes topics which haven't had much textbook coverage, such as square variation, the reflection principle, and the invariance principle. The chapter on diffusion shows how to obtain the process from Brownian by changing time. (Author)

287 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that the conditional and unconditional weak limit for a sequence of independent, identically distributed random variables is the same as that of the standard Brownian motion.
Abstract: Let $\{\xi_k: k \geqq 1\}$ be a sequence of independent, identically distributed random variables with $E\{\xi_1\} = 0$ and $E\{\xi_1^2\} = \sigma^2, 0 n$. The limit process, $W^+$, is identified in terms of standard Brownian motion. Similar results are obtained for random partial sums and renewal processes. Finally, in the case where $E\{\xi_1\} = \mu > 0$, it is shown that the conditional (on $T > n$) and unconditional weak limit for $(S_{\lbrack nt\rbrack} - \mu nt)/\sigma n^{\frac{1}{2}}$ is the same, namely, Brownian motion.

155 citations