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On the first passage time density of a continuous Martingale over a moving boundary

Probability 2009-05-14 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

In this paper we derive the density φ\varphi of the first time TT that a continuous martingale MM with non-random quadratic variation <M>:=0h2(u)du<M>_\cdot:=\int_0^\cdot h^2(u)du hits a moving boundary ff which is twice continuously differentiable, and f/hC2[0,)f'/h\in\mathbb{C}^2[0,\infty). Thus, this work is an extension to case in which MM is in fact a one-dimensional standard Brownian motion BB, as studied in Hernandez-del-Valle (2007).

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@article{arxiv.0905.1975,
  title  = {On the first passage time density of a continuous Martingale over a moving boundary},
  author = {Gerardo Hernandez-del-Valle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.1975},
  year   = {2009}
}