Measure concentration for compound Poisson distributions.
We consider a dynamical system in driven by a vector field -U', where U is a multi-well potential satisfying some regularity conditions. We perturb this dynamical system by a Lévy noise of small intensity and such that the heaviest tail of its Lévy measure is regularly varying. We show that the perturbed dynamical system exhibits metastable behaviour i.e. on a proper time scale it reminds of a Markov jump process taking values in the local minima of the potential U. Due to the heavy-tail nature...
Metrics are proposed for the distance between two multivariate stable distributions. The first set of metrics are defined in terms of the closeness of the parameter functions of one dimensional projections of the laws. Convergence in these metrics is equivalent to convergence in distribution and an explicit bound on the uniform closeness of two stable densities is given. Another metric based on the Prokhorov metric between the spectral measures is related to the first metric. Consequences for approximation,...
We consider strictly stationary infinitely divisible processes and first extend the mixing conditions given in Maruyama [Theory Probab. Appl. 15 (1970) 1–22] and Rosiński and Żak [Stoc. Proc. Appl. 61 (1996) 277–288] from the univariate to the d-dimensional case. Thereafter, we show that multivariate Lévy-driven mixed moving average processes satisfy these conditions and hence a wide range of well-known processes such as superpositions of Ornstein − Uhlenbeck (supOU) processes or (fractionally integrated)...