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Quasi-stationarity for one-dimensional renormalized Brownian motion

Probability 2020-05-13 v2

Abstract

We are interested in the quasi-stationarity of the time-inhomogeneous Markov process X t = B t (t + 1) κ\kappa where (B t) t\ge0 is a one-dimensional Brownian motion and κ\kappa \in (0, \infty). We first show that the law of X t conditioned not to go out from (--1, 1) until the time t converges weakly towards the Dirac measure δ\delta 0 when κ\kappa > 1 2 as t goes to infinity. Then we show that this conditioned probability converges weakly towards the quasi-stationary distribution of an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process when κ\kappa = 1 2. Finally, when κ\kappa < 1 2 , it is shown that the conditioned probability converges towards the quasi-stationary distribution of a Brownian motion. We also prove the existence of a Q-process and a quasi-ergodic distribution for κ\kappa = 1 2 and κ\kappa < 1 2 .

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@article{arxiv.1809.07547,
  title  = {Quasi-stationarity for one-dimensional renormalized Brownian motion},
  author = {William Oçafrain},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.07547},
  year   = {2020}
}