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A process very similar to multifractional Brownian motion

Methodology 2011-10-14 v2 Probability

Abstract

In Ayache and Taqqu (2005), the multifractional Brownian (mBm) motion is obtained by replacing the constant parameter HH of the fractional Brownian motion (fBm) by a smooth enough functional parameter H(.)H(.) depending on the time tt. Here, we consider the process ZZ obtained by replacing in the wavelet expansion of the fBm the index HH by a function H(.)H(.) depending on the dyadic point k/2jk/2^j. This process was introduced in Benassi et al (2000) to model fBm with piece-wise constant Hurst index and continuous paths. In this work, we investigate the case where the functional parameter satisfies an uniform H\"older condition of order β>supt\ritH(t)\beta>\sup_{t\in \rit} H(t) and ones shows that, in this case, the process ZZ is very similar to the mBm in the following senses: i) the difference between ZZ and a mBm satisfies an uniform H\"older condition of order d>suptRH(t)d>\sup_{t\in \R} H(t); ii) as a by product, one deduces that at each point tRt\in \R the pointwise H\"older exponent of ZZ is H(t)H(t) and that ZZ is tangent to a fBm with Hurst parameter H(t)H(t).

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@article{arxiv.0901.2808,
  title  = {A process very similar to multifractional Brownian motion},
  author = {Antoine Ayache and Pierre R. Bertrand},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.2808},
  year   = {2011}
}

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18 pages

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