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We consider Monte Carlo methods for simulating solutions to the analogue of the Dirichlet boundary-value problem in which the Laplacian is replaced by the fractional Laplacian and boundary conditions are replaced by conditions on the…

In order to approximate the exit time of a one-dimensional diffusion process, we propose an algorithm based on a random walk. Such an algorithm was already introduced in both the Brownian context and in the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck context. Here…

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This paper is the sequel to another with the same name (Buttigieg et al., Comput. Methods Funct. Theory, 2023), and is concerned with results of the same type. We deduce a result on the moments of the exit time of Brownian motion from…

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