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Integral equation for the transition density of the multidimensional Markov random flight

Probability 2016-05-23 v1

Abstract

We consider the Markov random flight X(t)\bold X(t) in the Euclidean space Rm,  m2,\Bbb R^m, \; m\ge 2, starting from the origin 0Rm\bold 0\in\Bbb R^m that, at Poisson-paced times, changes its direction at random according to arbitrary distribution on the unit (m1)(m-1)-dimensional sphere Sm(0,1)S^m(\bold 0,1) having absolutely continuous density. For any time instant t>0t>0, the convolution-type recurrent relations for the joint and conditional densities of process X(t)\bold X(t) and of the number of changes of direction, are obtained. Using these relations, we derive an integral equation for the transition density of X(t)\bold X(t) whose solution is given in the form of a uniformly converging series composed of the multiple double convolutions of the singular component of the density with itself. Two important particular cases of the uniform distribution on Sm(0,1)S^m(\bold 0,1) and of the Gaussian distributions on the unit circumference S2(0,1)S^2(\bold 0,1) are separately considered.

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@article{arxiv.1601.06998,
  title  = {Integral equation for the transition density of the multidimensional Markov random flight},
  author = {Alexander D. Kolesnik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.06998},
  year   = {2016}
}

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15 pages