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The deterministic Skorohod problem plays an important role in the construction and analysis of diffusion processes with reflection. In the form studied here, the multidimensional Skorohod problem was introduced, in time-independent domains,…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-11-11 Kaj Nyström , Thomas Önskog

Ergodic optimization aims to describe dynamically invariant probability measures that maximize the integral of a given function. For a wide class of intrinsically ergodic subshifts over a finite alphabet, we show that the space of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Mao Shinoda , Hiroki Takahasi , Kenichiro Yamamoto

We consider different Markovian embedding schemes of non-Markovian stochastic processes that are described by generalized Langevin equations (GLE) and obey thermal detailed balance under equilibrium conditions. At thermal equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-02-08 Peter Siegle , Igor Goychuk , Peter Talkner , Peter Hanggi

We study the estimation of the value function for continuous-time Markov diffusion processes using a single, discretely observed ergodic trajectory. Our work provides non-asymptotic statistical guarantees for the least-squares…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Wenlong Mou

In this paper we derive martingale estimating functions for the dimensionality parameter of a Bessel process based on the eigenfunctions of the diffusion operator. Since a Bessel process is non-ergodic and the theory of martingale…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-27 Nicole Hufnagel , Jeannette H. C. Woerner

In this paper, we provide an alternative proof of the monotonicity principle for the optimal Skorokhod embedding problem established by Beiglb\"ock, Cox and Huesmann. This principle presents a geometric characterization that reflects the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-04 Gaoyue Guo , Xiaolu Tan , Nizar Touzi

In this paper we study the asymptotic behavior of a stochastic approximation scheme on two timescales with set-valued drift functions and in the presence of non-additive iterate-dependent Markov noise. It is shown that the recursion on each…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-21 Vinayaka Yaji , Shalabh Bhatnagar

The time at which a one-dimensional continuous strong Markov process attains a boundary point of its state space is a discontinuous path functional and it is, therefore, unclear whether the exit time can be approximated by hitting times of…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Thomas Kruse , Mikhail Urusov

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

Stochastic thermodynamics investigates energetic and entropic bounds in small systems. Foundational results, e.g., the first and second laws, predominantly rely on the Markov (memoryless) assumption. Although physicists recognise that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-12 Kiyoshi Kanazawa , Andreas Dechant

This paper solves exit problems for spectrally negative Markov additive processes and their reflections. A so-called scale matrix, which is a generalization of the scale function of a spectrally negative \levy process, plays a central role…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-10-19 Jevgenijs Ivanovs , Zbigniew Palmowski

We review the ageing phenomenon in the context of simplest trap model, Bouchaud's REM-like trap model from a spectral theoretic point of view. We show that the generator of the dynamics of this model can be diagonalised exactly. Using this…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. Bovier , A. Faggionato

The Skorokhod reflection was used in 1961 to create a reflected diffusion on the half-line. Later, it was used for processes with jumps such as reflected L\'evy processes. Like a Brownian motion, which is a weak limit of random walks,…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Andrey Pilipenko , Andrey Sarantsev

In this paper, we construct a counterexample to a question by Cantelli, asking whether there exists a nonconstant positive measurable function $\varphi$ such that for i.i.d. r.v. $X,Y$ of law $\mathcal{N}(0,1)$, the r.v. $X+\varphi(X)\cdot…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-10-28 Victor Kleptsyn , Aline Kurtzmann

We show that a certain integral representation of the one-sided Skorokhod reflection of a continuous bounded variation function characterizes the reflection in that it possesses a unique maximal solution which solves the Skorokhod…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-03-30 Venkat Anantharam , Takis Konstantopoulos

We consider optimal approximation with respect to the mean square error of It\^o integrals and Skorohod integrals given an equidistant discretization of the Brownian motion. We obtain for suitable integrands optimal rates smaller than the…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-01-06 Peter Parczewski

We prove a robust super-hedging duality result for path-dependent options on assets with jumps, in a continuous time setting. It requires that the collection of martingale measures is rich enough and that the payoff function satisfies some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-24 Bruno Bouchard , Xiaolu Tan

Characterizing whether a Markov process of discrete random variables has an homogeneous continuous-time realization is a hard problem. In practice, this problem reduces to deciding when a given Markov matrix can be written as the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-06-23 Marta Casanellas , Jesús Fernández-Sánchez , Jordi Roca-Lacostena

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

The Az\'{e}ma-Yor solution (resp., the Perkins solution) of the Skorokhod embedding problem has the property that it maximizes (resp., minimizes) the law of the maximum of the stopped process. We show that these constructions have a wider…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-09-10 David Hobson , Martin Klimmek