On the Azéma-Yor stopping time
On the Barlow-Yor inequalities for local time
On the behavior of LIFO preemptive resume queues in heavy traffic.
On the birth-and-assassination process, with an application to scotching a rumor in a network.
On the central limit theorem for some birth and death processes
Suppose that {Xn, n ≥ 0} is a stationary Markov chain and V is a certain function on a phase space of the chain, called an observable. We say that the observable satisfies the central limit theorem (CLT) if [...] [...] converge in law to a normal random variable, as N → +∞. For a stationary Markov chain with the L2 spectral gap the theorem holds for all V such that V (X0) is centered and square integrable, see Gordin [7]. The purpose of this article is to characterize a family of observables V for...
On the Chung-Diaconis-Graham random process.
On the classification of Markov chains via occupation measures
We consider a Markov chain on a locally compact separable metric space and with a unique invariant probability. We show that such a chain can be classified into two categories according to the type of convergence of the expected occupation measures. Several properties in each category are investigated.
On the comparison of pure jump processes
On the construction of kernels
On the constructions of the skew Brownian motion.
On the control of the difference between two Brownian motions: a dynamic copula approach
We propose new copulae to model the dependence between two Brownian motions and to control the distribution of their difference. Our approach is based on the copula between the Brownian motion and its reflection. We show that the class of admissible copulae for the Brownian motions are not limited to the class of Gaussian copulae and that it also contains asymmetric copulae. These copulae allow for the survival function of the difference between two Brownian motions to have higher value in the right...
On the control of the difference between two Brownian motions: an application to energy markets modeling
We derive a model based on the structure of dependence between a Brownian motion and its reflection according to a barrier. The structure of dependence presents two states of correlation: one of comonotonicity with a positive correlation and one of countermonotonicity with a negative correlation. This model of dependence between two Brownian motions B1 and B2 allows for the value of [...] to be higher than 1/2 when x is close to 0, which is not the case when the dependence is modeled by a constant...
On the core property of the cylinder functions class in the construction of interacting particle systems
For general interacting particle systems in the sense of Liggett, it is proven that the class of cylinder functions forms a core for the associated Markov generator. It is argued that this result cannot be concluded by straightforwardly generalizing the standard proof technique that is applied when constructing interacting particle systems from their Markov pregenerators.
On the coupling property of Lévy processes
We give necessary and sufficient conditions guaranteeing that the coupling for Lévy processes (with non-degenerate jump part) is successful. Our method relies on explicit formulae for the transition semigroup of a compound Poisson process and earlier results by Mineka and Lindvall–Rogers on couplings of random walks. In particular, we obtain that a Lévy process admits a successful coupling, if it is a strong Feller process or if the Lévy (jump) measure has an absolutely continuous component.
On the cover time of planar graphs.
On the discrete time-varying JLQG problem
In the present paper optimal time-invariant state feedback controllers are designed for a class of discrete time-varying control systems with Markov jumping parameter and quadratic performance index. We assume that the coefficients have limits as time tends to infinity and the boundary system is absolutely observable and stabilizable. Moreover, following the same line of reasoning, an adaptive controller is proposed in the case when system parameters are unknown but their strongly consistent estimators...
On the distribution of random walk local time
On the distribution of the number of vertices in layers of random trees.
On the distribution of the supremum for stochastic processes
On the distribution of waiting time until k-th repetition of any event.