Skorokhod embeddings, minimality and non-centred target distributions |
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Authors: | A. M. G. Cox D. G. Hobson |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Mathematics, University of York, York, Y010 5DD, UK;(2) Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK |
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Abstract: | In this paper we consider the Skorokhod embedding problem for target distributions with non-zero mean. In the zero-mean case, uniform integrability provides a natural restriction on the class of embeddings, but this is no longer suitable when the target distribution is not centred. Instead we restrict our class of stopping times to those which are minimal, and we find conditions on the stopping times which are equivalent to minimality. We then apply these results, firstly to the problem of embedding non-centred target distributions in Brownian motion, and secondly to embedding general target laws in a diffusion. We construct an embedding (which reduces to the Azema-Yor embedding in the zero-target mean case) which maximises the law of sups≤TBs among the class of minimal embeddings of a general target distribution μ in Brownian motion. We then construct a minimal embedding of μ in a diffusion X which maximises the law of sups≤Th(Xs) for a general function h. |
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Keywords: | Primary 60G40 60J60 Secondary 60G44 60J65 |
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