On the hypercontractivity of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck semigroups with drift
Let D be an unbounded domain in ℝd with d≥3. We show that if D contains an unbounded uniform domain, then the symmetric reflecting brownian motion (RBM) on ̅D is transient. Next assume that RBM X on ̅D is transient and let Y be its time change by Revuz measure 1D(x)m(x) dx for a strictly positive continuous integrable function m on ̅D. We further show that if there is some r>0 so that D∖̅B̅(̅0̅,̅ ̅r̅) is an unbounded uniform domain, then Y admits one and only one symmetric diffusion that...
Non-linear mixed models defined by stochastic differential equations (SDEs) are considered: the parameters of the diffusion process are random variables and vary among the individuals. A maximum likelihood estimation method based on the Stochastic Approximation EM algorithm, is proposed. This estimation method uses the Euler-Maruyama approximation of the diffusion, achieved using latent auxiliary data introduced to complete the diffusion process between each pair of measurement instants. A tuned...
As in preceding papers in which we studied the limits of penalized 1-dimensional Wiener measures with certain functionals Γt, we obtain here the existence of the limit, as t → ∞, of d-dimensional Wiener measures penalized by a function of the maximum up to time t of the Brownian winding process (for d = 2), or in {d}≥ 2 dimensions for Brownian motion prevented to exit a cone before time t. Various extensions of these multidimensional penalisations are studied, and the limit laws are described....