First-passage time of a Brownian motion: two unexpected journeys
Statistical Mechanics
2024-09-04 v3 Probability
Abstract
The distribution of the first-passage time (FPT) for a Brownian particle with drift subject to hitting an absorber at a level is well-known and given by its density , which is normalized only if . This article demonstrates the existence of two additional diffusion process categories (one with one parameter and the other with two) that have the same first passage-time distributions when . For both, we identify the transition densities and thoroughly investigate the processes. A substantial implication is that the first-passage time distribution does not indicate whether the process originates from a drifted Brownian motion or from one of the new processes presented.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2306.17656,
title = {First-passage time of a Brownian motion: two unexpected journeys},
author = {Alain Mazzolo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.17656},
year = {2024}
}
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