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Rate of convergence to equilibrium of marked Hawkes processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

P. Brémaud*
Affiliation:
ENS, Paris, and EPFL, Lausanne
G. Nappo*
Affiliation:
Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’
G. L. Torrisi*
Affiliation:
Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, Roma
*
Postal address: Département d’Informatique, École Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d’Ulm, F-75230 Paris Cedex 05, France.
∗∗ Postal address: Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’, Piazzale A. Moro 1, 00185-Roma, Italy. Email address: nappo@mat.uniroma1.it
∗∗∗ Postal address: Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo ‘M. Picone’ (IAC-CNR), Viale del Policlinico 137, 00161 Roma, Italy.

Abstract

In this article we obtain rates of convergence to equilibrium of marked Hawkes processes in two situations. Firstly, the stationary process is the empty process, in which case we speak of the rate of extinction. Secondly, the stationary process is the unique stationary and nontrivial marked Hawkes process, in which case we speak of the rate of installation. The first situation models small epidemics, whereas the results in the second case are useful in deriving stopping rules for simulation algorithms of Hawkes processes with random marks.

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Research Papers
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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 2002 

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