Non-independence of excursions of the Brownian sheet and of additive Brownian motion

A classical and important property of Brownian motion is that given its zero set, distinct excursions away from zero are independent. In this paper, we examine the analogous question for the Brownian sheet, and also for additive Brownian motion. Our main result is that given the level set of the Brownian sheet at level zero, distinct excursions of the sheet away from zero are not independent. In fact, given the zero set of the Brownian sheet in the entire non-negative quadrant, and the sign of all but a finite number of excursions away from zero, the signs of the remaining excursions are determined. For additive Brownian motion, we prove the following definitive result: given the zero set of additive Brownian motion and the sign of a single excursion, the signs of all other excursions are determined. In an appendix by John B. Walsh, it is shown that given the absolute value of the sheet in the entire quadrant and, in addition, the sign of the sheet at a fixed, non-random time point, then the whole sheet can be recovered.

     

Intersections of Brownian motions

This article presents a survey of the theory of the intersections of Brownian motion paths. Among other things, we present a truly elementary proof of a classical theorem of A. Dvoretzky, P. Erdős and S. Kakutani. This proof is motivated by old ideas of P. Lévy that were originally used to investigate the curve of planar Brownian motion.     

Brownian and fractional Brownian stochastic currents via Malliavin calculus

By using Malliavin calculus and multiple Wiener-Itô integrals, we study the existence and the regularity of stochastic currents defined as Skorohod (divergence) integrals with respect to the Brownian motion and to the fractional Brownian motion. We consider also the multidimensional multiparameter case and we compare the regularity of the current as a distribution in negative Sobolev spaces with its regularity in the Watanabe spaces.     

A Set-indexed Fractional Brownian Motion

We define and prove the existence of a fractional Brownian motion indexed by a collection of closed subsets of a measure space. This process is a generalization of the set-indexed Brownian motion, when the condition of independance is relaxed. Relations with the Lévy fractional Brownian motion and with the fractional Brownian sheet are studied. We prove stationarity of the increments and a property of self-similarity with respect to the action of solid motions. Moreover, we show that there no “really nice” set indexed fractional Brownian motion other than set-indexed Brownian motion. Finally, behavior of the set-indexed fractional Brownian motion along increasing paths is analysed.      

Stochastic Differential Equations Driven by Fractional Brownian Motion and Standard Brownian Motion

Abstract

We prove an existence and uniqueness theorem for solutions of multidimensional, time dependent, stochastic differential equations driven simultaneously by a multidimensional fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter H > 1/2 and a multidimensional standard Brownian motion. The proof relies on some a priori estimates, which are obtained using the methods of fractional integration and the classical Itô stochastic calculus. The existence result is based on the Yamada–Watanabe theorem.     

利用Ito公式求布朗运动和几何布朗运动的矩

利用Ito公式及Ito积分的性质求出了布朗运动和几何布朗运动的矩的一般形式,同时指出可以利用这种方法求其他扩散过程的矩.     

Some properties of the sub-fractional Brownian motion

We study several properties of the sub-fractional Brownian motion (fBm) introduced by Bojdecki et al. related to those of the fBm. This process is a self-similar Gaussian process depending on a parameter H ∈ (0, 2) with non stationary increments and is a generalization of the Brownian motion (Bm).

The strong variation of the indefinite stochastic integral with respect to sub-fBm is also discussed.     

广义布朗单的容度估计

研究了既没有平稳增量性,也没有scaling性质的N指标d维广义布朗单的容度问题．证明了广义布朗单“好象”一个局部平稳增量过程,应用Cairoli极大不等式和多参数鞅的方法得到了广义布朗单的碰撞概率与容度之间的关系,给出了其碰撞概率的确切容度估计．所得结果包含了布朗单和可加布朗运动的相应结果．     

Chung's law for integrated Brownian motion

The small ball problem for the integrated process of a real-valued Brownian motion is solved. In sharp contrast to more standard methods, our approach relies on the sample path properties of Brownian motion together with facts about local times and Lévy processes.

     

Solutions to BSDEs driven by both fractional Brownian motions and the underlying standard Brownian Motions

The local existence and uniqueness of the solutions to backward stochastic differential equations(BSDEs, in short) driven by both fractional Brownian motions with Hurst parameter H ∈(1/2, 1) and the underlying standard Brownian motions are studied. The generalization of the It formula involving the fractional and standard Brownian motions is provided. By theory of Malliavin calculus and contraction mapping principle, the local existence and uniqueness of the solutions to BSDEs driven by both fractional Brownian motions and the underlying standard Brownian motions are obtained.     

Singularity of generalized grey Brownian motions with different parameters

In this note we prove that the probability measures generated by two generalized grey Brownian motions with different parameters are singular with respect to each other. This result can be interpreted as an extension of the Feldman–Hájek dichotomy of Gaussian measures to a family of non-Gaussian measures.     

Brownian motion and algorithm complexity

The Brownian motion is shown to be a useful tool in analysing some sorting and tree manipulation algorithms.     

Fake exponential Brownian motion

We construct a fake exponential Brownian motion, a continuous martingale different from classical exponential Brownian motion but with the same marginal distributions, thus extending results of Albin and Oleszkiewicz for fake Brownian motions. The ideas extend to other diffusions.     

Asymptotics of Brownian integrals and pressure: Bose-Einstein statistics

The paper studies the asymptotics of the Brownian integrals with paths restricted to a bounded domain of ? ^v , when the domain is dilated to infinity. The framework is that of the Bose-Einstein statistics with paths observed within random time intervals which are integer multiplies of some fixed β > 0. The three first terms of the asymptotics are found explicitly via the functional integrals. In the case of a gas of interacting Brownian loops an expression for the volume term of the asymptotics of the log-partition function is found and the correction term is proved to by order be the boundary area of the domain.     

The exit distribution for iterated Brownian motion in cones

We study the distribution of the exit place of iterated Brownian motion in a cone, obtaining information about the chance of the exit place having large magnitude. Along the way, we determine the joint distribution of the exit time and exit place of Brownian motion in a cone. This yields information on large values of the exit place (harmonic measure) for Brownian motion. The harmonic measure for cones has been studied by many authors for many years. Our results are sharper than any previously obtained.     

Large deviations for optimal filtering with fractional Brownian motion

We establish large deviation estimates for the optimal filter where the observation process is corrupted by a fractional Brownian motion. The observation process is transformed to an equivalent model which is driven by a standard Brownian motion. The large deviations in turn are established by proving qualitative properties of perturbations of the equivalent observation process.     

Asymptotic Windings of Brownian Motion Paths on Riemann Surfaces

We study asymptotic winding properties of Brownian motion paths on Riemann surfaces by obtaining limit laws for stochastic line integrals along Brownian paths of meromorphic differential 1-forms (Abelian differentials).     

An approach to generate deterministic Brownian motion

We propose an approach for generation of deterministic Brownian motion. By adding an additional degree of freedom to the Langevin equation and transforming it into a system of three linear differential equations, we determine the position of switching surfaces, which act as a multi-well potential with a short fluctuation escape time. Although the model is based on the Langevin equation, the final system does not contain a stochastic term, and therefore the obtained motion is deterministic. Nevertheless, the system behavior exhibits important characteristic properties of Brownian motion, namely, a linear growth in time of the mean square displacement, a Gaussian distribution, and a −2 power law of the frequency spectrum. Furthermore, we use the detrended fluctuation analysis to prove the Brownian character of this motion.     

More on maximal inequalities for sub-fractional Brownian motion

Abstract

We derive some maximal inequalities for the sub-fractional Brownian motion using comparison theorems for Gaussian processes.