The Azéma-Yor Embedding in Brownian Motion with Drift
The Azéma-Yor Embedding in Brownian Motion with Drift
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带有漂移的布朗运动中的 Azéma-Yor 嵌入
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2000
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通讯作者:
G. Peskir
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作者:
G. Peskir
Let B = (B t ) t≥0 be standard Brownian motion starting at zero, let μ > 0 be given and fixed, and let v be a probability measure on R having a strictly positive density F. Then there exists a stopping time T*. of B such that
$$left( {{B_{{T_*}}} + mu {T_*}}
ight) sim
u$$
if and only if the following condition is satisfied:
$${D_mu }: = int {_R} {e^{ - 2mu x}}vleft( {dx}
ight) leqslant 1$$
Setting in this case ({C_mu } = - {left( {2mu }
ight)^{ - 1}}log left( {{D_mu }}
ight)) the following explicit formula is valid:
$${ au _*} = inf left{ {t >left. 0
ight|left( {{B_t} + mu t}
ight) leqslant {h_mu }left( {mathop {max }limits_{0 leqslant r leqslant t} left( {{B_r} + mu r}
ight)}
ight)}
ight}$$
where the map (s mapsto {h_mu }left( s
ight)) for s > C μ is expressed through its inverse by
$$h_mu ^{ - 1}left( x
ight) = - frac{1}{{2mu }}log left( {frac{1}{{1 - Fleft( x
ight)}}int {_x^infty } {e^{ - 2mu t}}dFleft( t
ight)}
ight)left( {x in R}
ight)$$
and we set ({h_mu }left( s
ight) = - infty) for s ≤ C μ . This settles the question raised in [6]. In addition, it is proved that r. is pointwise the smallest possible stopping time satisfying (left( {{B_{{ au _*}}} + mu { au _*}}
ight) sim v) which generates stochastically the largest possible maximum of the process (B t + μt) t≥0 up to the time of stopping. This minimax property characterizes T*. uniquely. The result recovers the Azema-Yor solution of the Skorokhod embedding problem [1] by passing to the limit when μ ↓ 0. The condition on the existence of a strictly positive density is imposed for simplicity, and more general cases can be treated similarly. The line of arguments used in the proof can be extended to treat the case of more general nonrecurrent diffusions.