We present an extreme-value analysis of the classical law of the iterated logarithm (LIL) for Brownian motion. Our result can be viewed as a new improvement to the LIL.
We establish a large deviation principle for the process of the largest eigenvalue of an Hermitian Brownian motion. By a contraction principle, we recover the LDP for the largest eigenvalue of a rank one deformation of the GUE.
Reflected Brownian motion (RBM) in a convex polyhedral cone arises in a variety of applications ranging from the theory of stochastic networks to math finance, and under general stability conditions, it has a unique stationary distribution. In such applications, to implement a stochastic optimization algorithm or quantify robustness of a model, it is useful to characterize the dependence of stationary performance measures on model parameters. In this work we characterize parametric sensitivities of the stationary distribution of an RBM in a simple convex polyhedral cone; that is, sensitivities to perturbations of the parameters that define the RBM --- namely, the covariance matrix, drift vector and directions of reflection along the boundary of the polyhedral cone. In order to characterize these sensitivities we study the long time behavior of the joint process consisting of an RBM along with its so-called derivative process, which characterizes pathwise derivatives of RBMs on finite time intervals. We show that the joint process is positive recurrent, has a unique stationary distribution, and parametric sensitivities of the stationary distribution of an RBM can be expressed in terms of the stationary distribution of the joint process. This can be thought of as establishing an interchange of the differential operator and the limit in time. The analysis of ergodicity of the joint process is significantly more complicated than that of the RBM due to its degeneracy and the fact that the derivative process exhibits jumps that are modulated by the RBM. The proofs of our results rely on path properties of coupled RBMs and contraction properties related to the geometry of the polyhedral cone and directions of reflection along the boundary. Our results are potentially useful for developing efficient numerical algorithms for computing sensitivities of functionals of stationary RBMs.
Nils Tongring (1987) proved sufficient conditions for a compact set to contain $k$-tuple points of a Brownian motion. In this paper, we extend these findings to the fractional Brownian motion. Using the property of strong local nondeterminism, we show that if $B$ is a fractional Brownian motion in $mathbb{R}^d$ with Hurst index $H$ such that $Hd=1$, and $E$ is a fixed, nonempty compact set in $mathbb{R}^d$ with positive capacity with respect to the function $phi(s) = (log_+(1/s))^k$, then $E$ contains $k$-tuple points with positive probability. For the $Hd > 1$ case, the same result holds with the function replaced by $phi(s) = s^{-k(d-1/H)}$.
In this paper, we prove the Girsanov formula for $G$-Brownian motion without the non-degenerate condition. The proof is based on the perturbation method in the nonlinear setting by constructing a product space of the $G$-expectation space and a linear space that contains a standard Brownian motion. The estimates for exponential martingale of $G$-Brownian motion are important for our arguments.
Motivated by the goal of understanding the evolution of populations undergoing selection, we consider branching Brownian motion in which particles independently move according to one-dimensional Brownian motion with drift, each particle may either split into two or die, and the difference between the birth and death rates is a linear function of the position of the particle. We show that, under certain assumptions, after a sufficiently long time, the empirical distribution of the positions of the particles is approximately Gaussian. This provides mathematically rigorous justification for results in the biology literature indicating that the distribution of the fitness levels of individuals in a population over time evolves like a Gaussian traveling wave.