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Geometric Stable processes and related fractional differential equations

Probability 2013-05-01 v1

Abstract

We are interested in the differential equations satisfied by the density of the Geometric Stable processes Gαβ={Gαβ(t);t0}\mathcal{G}_{\alpha}^{\beta}=\left\{\mathcal{G}_{\alpha}^{\beta}(t);t\geq 0\right\} , with stability \ index % \alpha \in (0,2] and asymmetry parameter β[1,1]\beta \in \lbrack -1,1], both in the univariate and in the multivariate cases. We resort to their representation as compositions of stable processes with an independent Gamma subordinator. As a preliminary result, we prove that the latter is governed by a differential equation expressed by means of the shift operator. As a consequence, we obtain the space-fractional equation satisfied by the density of Gαβ.\mathcal{G}_{\alpha}^{\beta}. For some particular values of % \alpha and β,\beta , we get some interesting results linked to well-known processes, such as the Variance Gamma process and the first passage time of the Brownian motion.

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@article{arxiv.1304.7915,
  title  = {Geometric Stable processes and related fractional differential equations},
  author = {Luisa Beghin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.7915},
  year   = {2013}
}

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12 pages

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