Hitting probabilities for general Gaussian processes
Abstract
For a scalar Gaussian process on with a prescribed general variance function and a canonical metric which is commensurate with , we estimate the probability for a vector of iid copies of to hit a bounded set in , with conditions on which place no restrictions of power type or of approximate self-similarity, assuming only that is continuous, increasing, and concave, with and . We identify optimal base (kernel) functions which depend explicitly on , to derive upper and lower bounds on the hitting probability in terms of the corresponding generalized Hausdorff measure and non-Newtonian capacity of respectively. The proofs borrow and extend some recent progress for hitting probabilities estimation, including the notion of two-point local-nondeterminism in Bierm\'{e}, Lacaux, and Xiao \cite{Bierme:09}.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1305.1758,
title = {Hitting probabilities for general Gaussian processes},
author = {E. Nualart and F. Viens},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.1758},
year = {2014}
}