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A note on the supremum of a stable process

Probability 2008-01-03 v1

Abstract

If XX is a spectrally positive stable process of index α(1,2)\alpha\in(1,2) whose L\'{e}vy measure has density cxα1cx^{-\alpha-1} on (0,),(0,\infty), and S1=sup0<t1Xt,S_1=\sup_{0<t\leq1}X_t, it is known that P(S1>x)cα1xαP(S_1>x)\backsim c\alpha^{-1}x^{-\alpha} as x.x\to\infty. It is also known that S1S_1has a continuous density, ss say. The point of this note is to show that s(x)cx(α+1)s(x)\backsim cx^{-(\alpha+1)} as x.x\to\infty.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0712.3414,
  title  = {A note on the supremum of a stable process},
  author = {R. A. Doney},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.3414},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

To appear in a Special Volume of Stochastics: An International Journal of Probability and Stochastic Processes (http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=journal%26issn=1744-2508) edited by N.H. Bingham and I.V. Evstigneev which will be reprinted as Volume 57 of the IMS Lecture Notes Monograph Series (http://imstat.org/publications/lecnotes.htm)

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