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Fluctuation identities for lévy processes and splitting at the maximum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Priscilla Greenwood*
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia
Jim Pitman*
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
*
Postal address: Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
∗∗Postal address: Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A.

Abstract

Itô's notion of a Poisson point process of excursions is used to give a unified approach to a number of results in the fluctuation theory of Lévy processes, including identities of Pecherskii, Rogozin and Fristedt, and Millar's path decomposition at the maximum.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1980 

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Footnotes

This author's research was partly supported by NSF Grant No. MCS 78-25301.

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