Skorokhod embeddings, minimality and non-centred target distributions
Skorokhod embeddings, minimality and non-centred target distributions
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DOI:
10.1007/s00440-005-0467-y
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发表时间:
2003-10
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2
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A. Cox;D. Hobson
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作者:
A. Cox;D. Hobson
In this paper we consider the Skorokhod embedding problem for target distributions with non-zero mean. In the zero-mean case, uniform integrability provides a natural restriction on the class of embeddings, but this is no longer suitable when the target distribution is not centred. Instead we restrict our class of stopping times to those which are minimal, and we find conditions on the stopping times which are equivalent to minimality.We then apply these results, firstly to the problem of embedding non-centred target distributions in Brownian motion, and secondly to embedding general target laws in a diffusion.We construct an embedding (which reduces to the Azema-Yor embedding in the zero-target mean case) which maximises the law of sups≤TBsamong the class of minimal embeddings of a general target distributionμin Brownian motion. We then construct a minimal embedding ofμin a diffusionXwhich maximises the law of sups≤Th(Xs) for a general functionh.