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The first passage time problem over a moving boundary for asymptotically stable L\'evy processes

Probability 2015-01-14 v2

Abstract

We study the asymptotic tail behaviour of the first-passage time over a moving boundary for asymptotically α\alpha-stable L\'evy processes with α<1\alpha<1. Our main result states that if the left tail of the L\'evy measure is regularly varying with index α- \alpha and the moving boundary is equal to 1tγ1 - t^{\gamma} for some γ<1/α\gamma<1/\alpha, then the probability that the process stays below the moving boundary has the same asymptotic polynomial order as in the case of a constant boundary. The same is true for the increasing boundary 1+tγ1 + t^{\gamma} with γ<1/α\gamma<1/\alpha under the assumption of a regularly varying right tail with index α- \alpha.

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@article{arxiv.1305.1203,
  title  = {The first passage time problem over a moving boundary for asymptotically stable L\'evy processes},
  author = {Frank Aurzada and Tanja Kramm},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.1203},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

correction of earlier mistakes, in particular the result can only be claimed for \alpha<1, to appear in: Journal of Theoretical Probability

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