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The Skorokhod embedding problem is to represent a given probability as the distribution of Brownian motion at a chosen stopping time. Over the last 50 years this has become one of the important classical problems in probability theory and a…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-05-16 Mathias Beiglboeck , Alexander M. G. Cox , Martin Huesmann

This paper examines the Root solution of the Skorohod embedding problem given full marginals on some compact time interval. Our results are obtained by limiting arguments based on finitely-many marginals Root solution of Cox, Obl\'oj and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-18 Alexandre Richard , Xiaolu Tan , Nizar Touzi

Start a planar Brownian motion and let it run until it hits some given barrier. We show that the barrier may be crafted so that the x coordinate at the hitting time has any prescribed centered distribution with finite variance. This…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-05-03 Renan Gross

The Skorokhod Embedding Problem (SEP) is one of the classical problems in the study of stochastic processes, with applications in many different fields (cf.~ the surveys \cite{Ob04,Ho11}). Many of these applications have natural…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-29 Mathias Beiglboeck , Alexander Cox , Martin Huesmann

In this paper we consider a connection between the famous Skorohod embedding problem and the Shiryaev inverse problem for the first hitting time distribution of a Brownian motion: given a probability distribution, $F$, find a boundary such…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-11-01 Sebastian Jaimungal , Alexander Kreinin , Angel Valov

We study the existence, optimality, and construction of non-randomised stopping times that solve the Skorokhod embedding problem (SEP) for Markov processes which satisfy a duality assumption. These stopping times are hitting times of…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Paul Gassiat , Harald Oberhauser , Christina Z. Zou

The planar Skorokhod embedding problem was first proposed and solved by R. Gross in 2019 [#gross2019]. Gross worked with probability distributions having finite second moment. In [#boudabra2019remarks, #Boudabra2020], the solutions extended…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Maher Boudabra

We consider the Skorokhod problem in a time-varying interval. We prove existence and uniqueness for the solution. We also express the solution in terms of an explicit formula. Moving boundaries may generate singularities when they touch. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-12-19 Krzysztof Burdzy , Weining Kang , Kavita Ramanan

This work introduces the extended Skorokhod problem (ESP) and associated extended Skorokhod map (ESM) that enable a pathwise construction of reflected diffusions that are not necessarily semimartingales. Roughly speaking, given the closure…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 K. Ramanan

Let $(Z,\kappa)$ be a Walsh Brownian motion with spinning measure $\kappa$. Suppose $\mu$ is a probability measure on $\mathbb{R}^n$. We characterize all the $\kappa$ such that $\mu$ is a stopping distribution of $(Z,\kappa)$. If we further…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-05-31 Erhan Bayraktar , Xin Zhang

We present a numerical framework for approximating the $\mu$-domain in the planar Skorokhod embedding problem PSEP, recently introduced in \cite{gross2019}. We show that under weak convergence of a sequence of probability measures…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Maher Boudabra , Mrabet Becher , Fathi Haggui

We consider cost minimizing stopping time solutions to Skorokhod embedding problems, which deal with transporting a source probability measure to a given target measure through a stopped Brownian process. PDEs and a free boundary problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Nassif Ghoussoub , Young-Heon Kim , Aaron Zeff Palmer

We identify the integrable stopping time $\tau_*$ with minimal $L^1$-distance to the last-passage time $\gamma_z$ to a given level $z>0$, for an arbitrary non-negative time-homogeneous transient diffusion $X$. We demonstrate that $\tau_*$…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-12-31 Kristoffer Glover , Hardy Hulley

This paper provides a full characterization of the value function and solution(s) of an optimal stopping problem for a one-dimensional diffusion with an integral criterion. The results hold under very weak assumptions, namely, the diffusion…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Manuel Guerra , Cláudia Nunes , Carlos Oliveira

Given an initial (resp., terminal) probability measure $\mu$ (resp., $\nu$) on $\mathbb{R}^d$, we characterize those optimal stopping times $\tau$ that maximize or minimize the functional $\mathbb{E} |B_0 - B_\tau|^{\alpha}$, $\alpha > 0$,…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-11-09 Nassif Ghoussoub , Young-Heon Kim , Tongseok Lim

Define Minimum Soapy Union (MinSU) as the following optimization problem: given a $k$-tuple $(X_1, X_2,..., X_k)$ of finite integer sets, find a $k$-tuple $(t_1, t_2,..., t_k)$ of integers that minimizes the cardinality of $(X_1 + t_1) \cup…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-04-23 Francois Nicolas , Sebastian Böcker

Let $(X, \mathcal{B}, \mu, T)$ be a dynamical system where $X$ is a compact metric space with Borel $\sigma$-algebra $\mathcal{B}$, and $\mu$ is a probability measure that's ergodic with respect to the homeomorphism $T : X \to X$. We study…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-05-20 Idris Assani , Aidan Young

In this work, we investigate the problem of the boundedness of the Gross' solutions of the planar Skorokhod embedding problem, where we show that the solution is bounded under some mild conditions on the underlying probability distribution.

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-05 Maher Boudabra , Dhaker Kroumi , Boubaker Smii

Given a L\'evy process $L$, we consider the so-called statistical Skorohod embedding problem of recovering the distribution of an independent random time $T$ based on i.i.d. sample from $L_{T}.$ Our approach is based on the genuine use of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-04 Denis Belomestny , John Schoenmakers

The symmetric simple exclusion process (SEP), where diffusive particles cannot overtake each other, is a paradigmatic model of transport in the single-file geometry. In this model, the study of currents has attracted a lot of attention, but…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-12 Aurélien Grabsch , Hiroki Moriya , Kirone Mallick , Tomohiro Sasamoto , Olivier Bénichou