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Rates of convergence of a transient diffusion in a spectrally negative L\'{e}vy potential

Probability 2008-01-03 v2

Abstract

We consider a diffusion process XX in a random L\'{e}vy potential V\mathbb{V} which is a solution of the informal stochastic differential equation \begin{eqnarray*}\cases{dX_t=d\beta_t-{1/2}\mathbb{V}'(X_t) dt,\cr X_0=0,}\end{eqnarray*} (β\beta B. M. independent of V\mathbb{V}). We study the rate of convergence when the diffusion is transient under the assumption that the L\'{e}vy process V\mathbb{V} does not possess positive jumps. We generalize the previous results of Hu--Shi--Yor for drifted Brownian potentials. In particular, we prove a conjecture of Carmona: provided that there exists 0<κ<10<\kappa<1 such that E[eκV1]=1\mathbf{E}[e^{\kappa\mathbb{V}_1}]=1, then Xt/tκX_t/t^{\kappa} converges to some nondegenerate distribution. These results are in a way analogous to those obtained by Kesten--Kozlov--Spitzer for the transient random walk in a random environment.

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@article{arxiv.math/0606411,
  title  = {Rates of convergence of a transient diffusion in a spectrally negative L\'{e}vy potential},
  author = {Arvind Singh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0606411},
  year   = {2008}
}

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Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009117907000000123 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)