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The foundational work of Karlin and McGregor established a powerful connection between random walks with tridiagonal transition matrices and the theory of orthogonal polynomials. We consider a particular extension of this framework, where…
Kasraoui, Stanton and Zeng, and Kim, Stanton and Zeng introduced certain $q$-analogues of Laguerre and Charlier polynomials. The moments of these orthogonal polynomials have combinatorial models in terms of crossings in permutations and set…
We prove an intrinsic Taylor-like formula for a class of Lie groups arising in the study of some sub-elliptic differential operators, namely the Kolmogorov operators. The estimate of the remainder is in terms of the intrinsic norm induced…
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We give a probabilistic interpretation of the associated Jacobi polynomials, which can be constructed from the three-term recurrence relation for the classical Jacobi polynomials by shifting the integer index $n$ by a real number $t$. Under…
We produce the first example of bounding total variation distance to stationarity and estimating mixing times via orthogonal polynomials diagonalization of discrete reversible Markov chains, the Karlin-McGregor approach.
We present 15 explicit examples of discrete time Birth and Death processes which are exactly solvable. They are related to the hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials of Askey scheme having discrete orthogonality measures. Namely, they are…
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The paper considers a continuous-time birth-death process where the jump rate has an asymptotically polynomial dependence on the process position. We obtain a rough exponential asymptotics for the probability of excursions of a re-scaled…
In this paper we study strong solutions of some non-local difference-differential equations linked to a class of birth-death processes arising as discrete approximations of Pearson diffusions by means of a spectral decomposition in terms of…
Many natural populations are well modelled through time-inhomogeneous stochastic processes. Such processes have been analysed in the physical sciences using a method based on Lie algebras, but this methodology is not widely used for models…
We propose a general method to obtain approximation of the first passage time distribution for the birth-death processes. We rely on the general properties of birth-death processes, Keilson's theorem and the concept of Riemann sum to obtain…
A multi--state life insurance model is naturally described in terms of the intensity matrix of an underlying (time--inhomogeneous) Markov process which describes the dynamics for the states of an insured person. Between and at transitions,…
We present results on co-recursive associated Laguerre and Jacobi polynomials which are of interest for the solution of the Chapman-Kolmogorov equations of some birth and death processes with or without absorption. Explicit forms,…
This paper concentrates on the general birth-death processes with two different types of catastrophes. The Laplace transform of transition probability function for birth-death processes with two-type catastrophes are is successfully…
We consider discrete-time birth-death chains on a spider, i.e. a graph consisting of $N$ discrete half lines on the plane that are joined at the origin. This process can be identified with a discrete-time quasi-birth-death process on the…
A form of time series path integral expansion is provided that enables both analytic and numerical temporal effect calculations for a range of stochastic processes. Birth-death processes with linear rates are analysed via coherent state…