scholarly journals Extinction rate of continuous state branching processes in critical Lévy environments

Author(s):  
Juan Carlos Pardo ◽  
Vincent Bansaye ◽  
Charline Smadi

We study  the  speed  of extinction of continuous state branching processes in a Lévy environment, where the associated Lévy process oscillates.  Assuming that the  Lévy process satisfies  Spitzer's condition and the existence of some  exponential moments, we extend recent results where the associated branching mechanism is stable. The study  relies on the  path analysis of  the branching process  together with its Lévy environment, when the latter is conditioned to have a non negative running infimum. For that purpose,  we combine the  approach  developed in    Afanasyev et al. \cite{Afanasyev2005},  for the discrete setting and i.i.d. environments, with fluctuation theory of Lévy processes and a remarkable result on exponential functionals of Lévy processes under Spitzer's condition due to Patie and Savov \cite{patie2016bernstein}.

1993 ◽  
Vol 132 ◽  
pp. 141-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshiro Watanabe

In this paper it is shown that there is a unimodal Levy process with oscillating mode. After the author first constructed an example of such a self-decomposable process, Sato pointed out that it belongs to the class of semi-stable processes with β < 0. We prove that all non-symmetric semi-stable self-decomposable processes with β < 0 have oscillating modes.


2006 ◽  
Vol 38 (03) ◽  
pp. 768-791 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. B. Dieker

We give three applications of the Pecherskii-Rogozin-Spitzer identity for Lévy processes. First, we find the joint distribution of the supremum and the epoch at which it is ‘attained’ if a Lévy process has phase-type upward jumps. We also find the characteristics of the ladder process. Second, we establish general properties of perturbed risk models, and obtain explicit fluctuation identities in the case that the Lévy process is spectrally positive. Third, we study the tail asymptotics for the supremum of a Lévy process under different assumptions on the tail of the Lévy measure.


2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (01) ◽  
pp. 128-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamille Sofie Tågholt Gad ◽  
Jesper Lund Pedersen

The main result of this paper is the solution to the optimal stopping problem of maximizing the variance of a geometric Lévy process. We call this problem the variance problem. We show that, for some geometric Lévy processes, we achieve higher variances by allowing randomized stopping. Furthermore, for some geometric Lévy processes, the problem has a solution only if randomized stopping is allowed. When randomized stopping is allowed, we give a solution to the variance problem. We identify the Lévy processes for which the allowance of randomized stopping times increases the maximum variance. When it does, we also solve the variance problem without randomized stopping.


Author(s):  
John Hawkes

Let Xt be a Lévy process in Rd, d-dimensional euclidean space. That is X is a Markov process whose transition function satisfies


2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 868-879
Author(s):  
Boris Buchmann ◽  
Kevin W. Lu

AbstractConsider the strong subordination of a multivariate Lévy process with a multivariate subordinator. If the subordinate is a stack of independent Lévy processes and the components of the subordinator are indistinguishable within each stack, then strong subordination produces a Lévy process; otherwise it may not. Weak subordination was introduced to extend strong subordination, always producing a Lévy process even when strong subordination does not. Here we prove that strong and weak subordination are equal in law under the aforementioned condition. In addition, we prove that if strong subordination is a Lévy process then it is necessarily equal in law to weak subordination in two cases: firstly when the subordinator is deterministic, and secondly when it is pure-jump with finite activity.


Positivity ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franziska Kühn

AbstractUnder mild assumptions, we establish a Liouville theorem for the “Laplace” equation $$Au=0$$ A u = 0 associated with the infinitesimal generator A of a Lévy process: If u is a weak solution to $$Au=0$$ A u = 0 which is at most of (suitable) polynomial growth, then u is a polynomial. As a by-product, we obtain new regularity estimates for semigroups associated with Lévy processes.


1991 ◽  
Vol 122 ◽  
pp. 63-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mamoru Kanda

Let X = (Xt, 0 ≤ t < ∞) be a Lévy process on the Euclidean space Rd, that is, a process on Rd with stationary independent increments which has right continuous paths with left limits. We denote by Px the probability measure such that PX(X0 = x) = 1 and by Ex the expectation relative to Px. The process is characterized by the exponent Ψ through.


Author(s):  
EUGENE LYTVYNOV

It is well known that between all processes with independent increments, essentially only the Brownian motion and the Poisson process possess the chaotic representation property (CRP). Thus, a natural question appears: What is an appropriate analog of the CRP in the case of a general Lévy process. At least three approaches are possible here. The first one, due to Itô, uses the CRP of the Brownian motion and the Poisson process, as well as the representation of a Lévy process through those processes. The second approach, due to Nualart and Schoutens, consists of representing any square-integrable random variable as a sum of multiple stochastic integrals constructed with respect to a family of orthogonalized centered power jumps processes. The third approach, never applied before to the Lévy processes, uses the idea of orthogonalization of polynomials with respect to a probability measure defined on the dual of a nuclear space. The main aims of this paper are to develop the three approaches in the case of a general (ℝ-valued) Lévy process on a Riemannian manifold and (what is more important) to understand a relationship between these approaches. We apply the obtained results to the gamma, Pascal, and Meixner processes, in which case the analysis related to the orthogonalized polynomials becomes essentially simpler and richer than in the general case.


2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamille Sofie Tågholt Gad ◽  
Jesper Lund Pedersen

The main result of this paper is the solution to the optimal stopping problem of maximizing the variance of a geometric Lévy process. We call this problem the variance problem. We show that, for some geometric Lévy processes, we achieve higher variances by allowing randomized stopping. Furthermore, for some geometric Lévy processes, the problem has a solution only if randomized stopping is allowed. When randomized stopping is allowed, we give a solution to the variance problem. We identify the Lévy processes for which the allowance of randomized stopping times increases the maximum variance. When it does, we also solve the variance problem without randomized stopping.


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