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L\'evy processes, martingales, reversed martingales and orthogonal polynomials

Probability 2014-03-18 v5

Abstract

We study class of L\'{e}vy processes having distributions being indentifiable by moments. We define system of polynomial martingales \newline {Mn(Xt,t),Ft}n1,\left\{ M_{n}(X_{t},t),\mathcal{F}_{\leq t}\right\} _{n\geq 1}, where % \mathcal{F}_{\leq t} is a suitable filtration defined below. We present several properties of these martingales. Among others we show that % M_{1}(X_{t},t)/t is a reversed martingale as well as a harness. Main results of the paper concern the question if martingale say MiM_{i} multiplied by suitable determinstic function μi(t)\mu _{i}(t) is a reversed martingale. We show that for n3n\geq 3 Mn(Xt,t)M_{n}(X_{t},t) is a reversed martingale (or orthogonal polynomial) only when the L\'{e}vy process in question is Gaussian (i.e. is a Wiener process). We study also a more general question if there are chances for a linear combination (with coefficients depending on t)t) of martingales Mi,M_{i}, i=1,,ni\allowbreak =\allowbreak 1,\ldots ,n to be reversed martingales. We analyze case % n\allowbreak =\allowbreak 2 in detail listing all possible cases.

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@article{arxiv.1212.3121,
  title  = {L\'evy processes, martingales, reversed martingales and orthogonal polynomials},
  author = {Paweł J. Szabłowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.3121},
  year   = {2014}
}

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17 pages