Laplace transforms related to excursions of a one-dimensional diffusion
Laplace transforms related to excursions of a one-dimensional diffusion
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DOI:
10.2307/3318434
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发表时间:
1999-04
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影响因子:
1.5
通讯作者:
J. Pitman;M. Yor
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作者:
J. Pitman;M. Yor
It is well known that the Laplace transforms of many random times derived from a onedimensional Brownian motion (BM) admit simple expressions in terms of hyperbolic functions. This paper offers a unified approach to these results, and presents their generalizations for a one-dimensional diffusion, using It6's (1971) excursion theory. See Jeanblanc et al. (1997) for a survey of related results involving the Feynman-Kac formula for the distribution of an additive functional of BM, and see Borodin and Salminen (1996) for a vast array of fomulae for the distribution of functionals of a one-dimensional diffusion. Section 2 presents the basic univariate formulae in a table, together with commentary and proofs. Section 3 shows how the univariate formulae can be combined with independence results from excursion theory to obtain various multivariate Laplace transforms. In the case of BM, these results have been applied to process control and stockmarket prices by Taylor (1975), and to the asymptotic distribution of windings of planar BM by Pitman and Yor (1986).