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We consider the last zero crossing time $T_{mu,t}$ of a Brownian motion, with drift $mu eq 0$ in the time interval $[0, t]$. We prove the large deviation principle of ${T_{mu sqrt r t} : r > 0 }$ as $r$ tends to infinity. Moreover, motivated by the results on moderate deviations in the literature, we also prove a class of large deviation principles for the same random variables with different scalings, which are governed by the same rate function. Finally we compare some aspects of the classical moderate deviation results, and the results in this paper.
In this paper we obtain a Wiener-Hopf type factorization for a time-inhomogeneous arithmetic Brownian motion with deterministic time-dependent drift and volatility. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the very first step towards realizing the objective of deriving Wiener-Hopf type factorizations for (real-valued) time-inhomogeneous L{e}vy processes. In particular, we argue that the classical Wiener-Hopf factorization for time-homogeneous L{e}vy processes quite likely does not carry over to the case of time-inhomogeneous L{e}vy processes.
Consider a storage system where the content is driven by a Brownian motion absent control. At any time, one may increase or decrease the content at a cost proportional to the amount of adjustment. A decrease of the content takes effect immediately, while an increase is realized after a fixed lead time $lt$. Holding costs are incurred continuously over time and are a convex function of the content. The objective is to find a control policy that minimizes the expected present value of the total costs. Due to the positive lead time for upward adjustments, one needs to keep track of all the outstanding upward adjustments as well as the actual content at time $t$ as there may also be downward adjustments during $[t,t+lt)$, i.e., the state of the system is a function on $[0,ell]$. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to study instantaneous control of stochastic systems in such a functional setting. We first extend the concept of $L^ atural$-convexity to function spaces and establish the $L^ atural$-convexity of the optimal cost function. We then derive various properties of the cost function and identify the structure of the optimal policy as a state-dependent two-sided reflection mapping making the minimum amount of adjustment necessary to keep the system states within a certain region.
In applications spaning from image analysis and speech recognition, to energy dissipation in turbulence and time-to failure of fatigued materials, researchers and engineers want to calculate how often a stochastic observable crosses a specific level, such as zero. At first glance this problem looks simple, but it is in fact theoretically very challenging. And therefore, few exact results exist. One exception is the celebrated Rice formula that gives the mean number of zero-crossings in a fixed time interval of a zero-mean Gaussian stationary processes. In this study we use the so-called Independent Interval Approximation to go beyond Rices result and derive analytic expressions for all higher-order zero-crossing cumulants and moments. Our results agrees well with simulations for the non-Markovian autoregressive model.
We construct a $K$-rough path above either a space-time or a spatial fractional Brownian motion, in any space dimension $d$. This allows us to provide an interpretation and a unique solution for the corresponding parabolic Anderson model, understood in the renormalized sense. We also consider the case of a spatial fractional noise.
In this paper, we will first give the numerical simulation of the sub-fractional Brownian motion through the relation of fractional Brownian motion instead of its representation of random walk. In order to verify the rationality of this simulation, we propose a practical estimator associated with the LSE of the drift parameter of mixed sub-fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, and illustrate the asymptotical properties according to our method of simulation when the Hurst parameter $H>1/2$.