scholarly journals Optimal and Suboptimal Control of a Standard Brownian Motion

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-394
Author(s):  
Mario Lefebvre
Keyword(s):  
Brownian Motion ◽  
Cost Function ◽  
Suboptimal Control ◽  
Linear Control ◽  
Standard Brownian Motion ◽  
Final Time ◽  
Best Constant ◽  
Constant Control

Abstract The problem of optimally controlling a standard Brownian motion until a fixed final time is considered in the case when the final cost function is an even function. Two particular problems are solved explicitly. Moreover, the best constant control as well as the best linear control are also obtained in these two particular cases.

On wald-type optimal stopping for Brownian motion

1997 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. E. Graversen ◽  
G. Peškir
Keyword(s):  
Brownian Motion ◽  
Optimal Stopping ◽  
Stopping Time ◽  
Maximal Inequality ◽  
Stopping Times ◽  
Standard Brownian Motion ◽  
Square Root ◽  
Real Analysis ◽  
Optimal Stopping Problems ◽  
Wald's Identity

The solution is presented to all optimal stopping problems of the form supτE(G(|Β τ |) – cτ), where is standard Brownian motion and the supremum is taken over all stopping times τ for B with finite expectation, while the map G : ℝ+ → ℝ satisfies for some being given and fixed. The optimal stopping time is shown to be the hitting time by the reflecting Brownian motion of the set of all (approximate) maximum points of the map . The method of proof relies upon Wald's identity for Brownian motion and simple real analysis arguments. A simple proof of the Dubins–Jacka–Schwarz–Shepp–Shiryaev (square root of two) maximal inequality for randomly stopped Brownian motion is given as an application.

SMOLYANOV–WEIZSÄCKER SURFACE MEASURES GENERATED BY DIFFUSIONS ON THE SET OF TRAJECTORIES IN RIEMANNIAN MANIFOLDS

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
pp. 21-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
ILYA V. TELYATNIKOV
Keyword(s):  
Brownian Motion ◽  
Euclidean Space ◽  
Diffusion Process ◽  
Riemannian Manifolds ◽  
Marginal Distribution ◽  
Diffusion Processes ◽  
Ambient Space ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Standard Brownian Motion ◽  
Limit Surface

We consider surface measures on the set of trajectories in a smooth compact Riemannian submanifold of Euclidean space generated by diffusion processes in the ambient space. A construction of surface measures on the path space of a smooth compact Riemannian submanifold of Euclidean space was introduced by Smolyanov and Weizsäcker for the case of the standard Brownian motion. The result presented in this paper extends the result of Smolyanov and Weizsäcker to the case when we consider measures generated by diffusion processes in the ambient space with nonidentical correlation operators. For every partition of the time interval, we consider the marginal distribution of the diffusion process in the ambient space under the condition that it visits the manifold at all times of the partition, when the mesh of the partition tends to zero. We prove the existence of some limit surface measures and the equivalence of the above measures to the distribution of some diffusion process on the manifold.

scholarly journals Another visit to two halflines

1989 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 935-937
Author(s):  
G. Hooghiemstra
Keyword(s):  
Brownian Motion ◽  
Standard Brownian Motion ◽  
Basic Properties

We shall use three basic properties of Brownian motion to derive in an elegant and non-computational way the probability that standard Brownian motion, starting from 0, will ever cross the halflines t → αt + β or t → γt + δ where γ, δ < 0 < α, β.

On a stochastic nonclassical diffusion equation with standard and fractional Brownian motion

2021 ◽  
pp. 2140011
Author(s):  
Tomás Caraballo ◽  
Tran Bao Ngoc ◽  
Tran Ngoc Thach ◽  
Nguyen Huy Tuan
Keyword(s):  
Brownian Motion ◽  
Diffusion Equation ◽  
Stochastic Integrals ◽  
Well Posedness ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Final Time ◽  
Fractional Brownian Motions ◽  
Nonclassical Diffusion Equation ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Well Posed

This paper is concerned with the mathematical analysis of terminal value problems (TVP) for a stochastic nonclassical diffusion equation, where the source is assumed to be driven by classical and fractional Brownian motions (fBms). Our two problems are to study in the sense of well-posedness and ill-posedness meanings. Here, a TVP is a problem of determining the statistical properties of the initial data from the final time data. In the case [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] is the fractional order of a Laplace operator, we show that these are well-posed under certain assumptions. We state a definition of ill-posedness and obtain the ill-posedness results for the problems when [Formula: see text]. The major analysis tools in this paper are based on properties of stochastic integrals with respect to the fBm.

A Limit Theorem for Brownian Motion in a Random Scenery

1991 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Remillard ◽  
Donald A. Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Brownian Motion ◽  
Limit Theorem ◽  
Random Potential ◽  
Limiting Distribution ◽  
Standard Brownian Motion ◽  
Random Scenery

AbstractWe find the limiting distribution of , where {Bu}u≧0 is the standard Brownian motion on ℝd, V is a particular random potential and {an}n≧1 is a normalizing sequence.

Problèmes de premier passage résolubles par la méthode de séparation des variables

1995 ◽  
Vol 32 (02) ◽  
pp. 337-348
Author(s):  
Mario Lefebvre
Keyword(s):  
Brownian Motion ◽  
Stochastic Processes ◽  
Generating Function ◽  
Moment Generating Function ◽  
First Passage Times ◽  
Standard Brownian Motion ◽  
First Passage ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Passage Times

In this paper, bidimensional stochastic processes defined by ax(t) = y(t)dt and dy(t) = m(y)dt + [2v(y)]1/2 dW(t), where W(t) is a standard Brownian motion, are considered. In the first section, results are obtained that allow us to characterize the moment-generating function of first-passage times for processes of this type. In Sections 2 and 5, functions are computed, first by fixing the values of the infinitesimal parameters m(y) and v(y) then by the boundary of the stopping region.

scholarly journals Coalescent lineage distributions

2006 ◽  
Vol 38 (02) ◽  
pp. 405-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. Griffiths
Keyword(s):  
Brownian Motion ◽  
Hypergeometric Functions ◽  
Common Ancestor ◽  
Recent Common Ancestor ◽  
Series Expansions ◽  
Standard Brownian Motion ◽  
Most Recent Common Ancestor ◽  
Coalescent Tree ◽  
Expected Values ◽  
Special Case

We study identities for the distribution of the number of edges at time t back (i.e. measured backwards) in a coalescent tree whose subtrees have no mutations. This distribution is important in the infinitely-many-alleles model of mutation, where every mutation is unique. The model includes, as a special case, the number of edges in a coalescent tree at time t back when mutation is ignored. The identities take the form of expected values of functions of Z t =eiX t , where X t is distributed as standard Brownian motion. Associated identities are also found for the distributions of the time to the most recent common ancestor, the time until loss of ancestral lines by coalescence or mutation, and the age of a mutation. Hypergeometric functions play an important role in the identities. The identities are of mathematical interest, as well as potentially being formulae to use for numerical integration or simulation to compute distributions that are usually expressed as alternating-sign series expansions, which are difficult to compute.

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