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Small noise asymptotics and first passage times of integrated Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes driven by $\alpha$-stable L\'{e}vy processes

Probability 2014-02-06 v2

Abstract

In this paper, we study the asymptotic behaviour of one-dimensional integrated Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes driven by α\alpha-stable L\'{e}vy processes of small amplitude. We prove that the integrated Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process converges weakly to the underlying α\alpha-stable L\'{e}vy process in the Skorokhod M1M_1-topology which secures the weak convergence of first passage times. This result follows from a more general result about approximations of an arbitrary L\'{e}vy process by continuous integrated Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes in the M1M_1-topology.

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@article{arxiv.1205.6116,
  title  = {Small noise asymptotics and first passage times of integrated Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes driven by $\alpha$-stable L\'{e}vy processes},
  author = {Robert Hintze and Ilya Pavlyukevich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.6116},
  year   = {2014}
}

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Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/12-BEJ485 the Bernoulli (http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm)