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Brownian motion, reflection groups and Tanaka formula

Probability 2011-01-04 v1

Abstract

In the setting of finite reflection groups, we prove that the projection of a Brownian motion onto a closed Weyl chamber is another Brownian motion normally reflected on the walls of the chamber. Our proof is probabilistic and the decomposition we obtain may be seen as a multidimensional extension of Tanaka's formula for linear Brownian motion. The paper is closed with a description of the boundary process through the local times at zero of the distances from the initial process to the facets.

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@article{arxiv.1101.0522,
  title  = {Brownian motion, reflection groups and Tanaka formula},
  author = {Nizar Demni and Dominique Lépingle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.0522},
  year   = {2011}
}
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