The Level-Crossing Problem: First-Passage, Escape and Extremes

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (04) ◽  
pp. 1430001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaume Masoliver
Keyword(s):  
Brownian Motion ◽  
Diffusion Processes ◽  
Extreme Values ◽  
Level Crossing ◽  
First Passage ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Absolute Value ◽  
Dimensional Diffusion

We review the level-crossing problem which includes the first-passage and escape problems as well as the theory of extreme values (the maximum, the minimum, the maximum absolute value and the range or span). We set the definitions and general results and apply them to one-dimensional diffusion processes with explicit results for the Brownian motion and the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck (OU) process.

First-passage-time densities for time-non-homogeneous diffusion processes

1997 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 623-631 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Gutiérrez ◽  
L. M. Ricciardi ◽  
P. Román ◽  
F. Torres
Keyword(s):  
Diffusion Processes ◽  
First Passage Time ◽  
Passage Time ◽  
Continuous Functions ◽  
Probability Density Functions ◽  
Density Functions ◽  
First Passage ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Dimensional Diffusion ◽  
Natural Boundaries

In this paper we study a Volterra integral equation of the second kind, including two arbitrary continuous functions, in order to determine first-passage-time probability density functions through time-dependent boundaries for time-non-homogeneous one-dimensional diffusion processes with natural boundaries. These results generalize those which were obtained for time-homogeneous diffusion processes by Giorno et al. [3], and for some particular classes of time-non-homogeneous diffusion processes by Gutiérrez et al. [4], [5].

Behavior of general one-dimensional diffusion processes

1989 ◽  
Vol 54 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 1065-1080 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francois Delyon ◽  
Jean-Francois Luciani
Keyword(s):  
Diffusion Processes ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Dimensional Diffusion

scholarly journals Similarity Solutions of Partial Differential Equations in Probability

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Mario Lefebvre
Keyword(s):  
Partial Differential Equations ◽  
Differential Equations ◽  
Diffusion Processes ◽  
Separation Of Variables ◽  
Similarity Solutions ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Partial Differential ◽  
Generalized Fourier Series ◽  
Dimensional Diffusion ◽  
Concentric Circles

Two-dimensional diffusion processes are considered between concentric circles and in angular sectors. The aim of the paper is to compute the probability that the process will hit a given part of the boundary of the stopping region first. The appropriate partial differential equations are solved explicitly by using the method of similarity solutions and the method of separation of variables. Some solutions are expressed as generalized Fourier series.

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