On the First-Passage Distribution for the Envelope of a Nonstationary Narrow-Band Stochastic Process

1974 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 793-797 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. C. Lennox ◽  
D. A. Fraser

A narrow-band stochastic process is obtained by exciting a lightly damped linear oscillator by wide-band stationary noise. The equation describing the envelope of the process is replaced, in an asymptotic sense, by a one-dimensional Markov process and the modified Kolmogorov (backward) equation describing the first-passage distribution function is solved exactly using classical methods by reducing the problem to that of finding the related eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; in this case degenerate hypergeometric functions. If the exciting process is white noise, the analysis is exact. The method also yields reasonable approximations for the first-passage time of the actual narrow-band process for either a one-sided or a symmetric two-sided barrier.

1995 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 1007-1013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Dominé

The first-passage problem for the one-dimensional Wiener process with drift in the presence of elastic boundaries is considered. We use the Kolmogorov backward equation with corresponding boundary conditions to derive explicit closed-form expressions for the expected value and the variance of the first-passage time. Special cases with pure absorbing and/or reflecting barriers arise for a certain choice of a parameter constellation.


1995 ◽  
Vol 32 (04) ◽  
pp. 1007-1013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Dominé

The first-passage problem for the one-dimensional Wiener process with drift in the presence of elastic boundaries is considered. We use the Kolmogorov backward equation with corresponding boundary conditions to derive explicit closed-form expressions for the expected value and the variance of the first-passage time. Special cases with pure absorbing and/or reflecting barriers arise for a certain choice of a parameter constellation.


1997 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 623-631 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Gutiérrez ◽  
L. M. Ricciardi ◽  
P. Román ◽  
F. Torres

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].


2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pengbo Xu ◽  
Weihua Deng

For the particles undergoing the anomalous diffusion with different waiting time distributions for different internal states, we derive the Fokker-Planck and Feymann-Kac equations, respectively, describing positions of the particles and functional distributions of the trajectories of particles; in particular, the equations governing the functional distribution of internal states are also obtained. The dynamics of the stochastic processes are analyzed and the applications, calculating the distribution of the first passage time and the distribution of the fraction of the occupation time, of the equations are given. For the further application of the newly built models, we make very detailed discussions on the none-immediately-repeated stochastic process, e.g., the random walk of smart animals.


2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuancun Yin ◽  
Huiqing Wang

We consider the general one-dimensional time-homogeneous regular diffusion process between two reflecting barriers. An approach based on the Itô formula with corresponding boundary conditions allows us to derive the differential equations with boundary conditions for the Laplace transform of the first passage time and the value function. As examples, the explicit solutions of them for several popular diffusions are obtained. In addition, some applications to risk theory are considered.


2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Lefebvre

LetX(t)be a controlled one-dimensional diffusion process having constant infinitesimal variance. We consider the problem of optimally controllingX(t)until timeT(x)=min{T1(x),t1}, whereT1(x)is the first-passage time of the process to a given boundary andt1is a fixed constant. The optimal control is obtained explicitly in the particular case whenX(t)is a controlled Wiener process.


1978 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. B. Roberts

A simple numerical scheme is proposed for computing the probability of first passage failure, P(T), in an interval O-T, for oscillators with nonlinear damping. The method depends on the fact that, when the damping is light, the amplitude envelope, A(t), can be accurately approximated as a one-dimensional Markov process. Hence, estimates of P(T) are found, for both single and double-sided barriers, by solving the Fokker-Planck equation for A(t) with an appropriate absorbing barrier. The numerical solution of the Fokker-Planck equation is greatly simplified by using a discrete time random walk analog of A(t), with appropriate statistical properties. Results obtained by this method are compared with corresponding digital simulation estimates, in typical cases.


1989 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 707-721 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Giorno ◽  
A. G. Nobile ◽  
L. M. Ricciardi

Special symmetry conditions on the transition p.d.f. of one-dimensional time-homogeneous diffusion processes with natural boundaries are investigated and exploited to derive closed-form results concerning the transition p.d.f.'s in the presence of absorbing and reflecting boundaries and the first-passage-time p.d.f. through time-dependent boundaries.


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