Exact L2-small ball behavior of integrated Gaussian processes and spectral asymptotics of boundary value problems

We find the exact small deviation asymptotics for the L₂-norm of various m-times integrated Gaussian processes closely connected with the Wiener process and the Ornstein – Uhlenbeck process. Using a general approach from the spectral theory of linear differential operators we obtain the two-term spectral asymptotics of eigenvalues in corresponding boundary value problems. This enables us to improve the recent results from [15] on the small ball asymptotics for a class of m-times integrated Wiener processes. Moreover, the exact small ball asymptotics for the m-times integrated Brownian bridge, the m-times integrated Ornstein – Uhlenbeck process and similar processes appear as relatively simple examples illustrating the developed general theory.Partially supported by grants of RFBR 01-01-00245 and 02-01-01099.