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2010 Right inverses of Levy processes: the excursion measure in the general case
Mladen Savov, Matthias Winkel
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Electron. Commun. Probab. 15: 572-584 (2010). DOI: 10.1214/ECP.v15-1590

Abstract

This article is about right inverses of Lévy processes as first introduced by Evans in the symmetric case and later studied systematically by the present authors and their co-authors. Here we add to the existing fluctuation theory an explicit description of the excursion measure away from the (minimal) right inverse. This description unifies known formulas in the case of a positive Gaussian coefficient and in the bounded variation case. While these known formulas relate to excursions away from a point starting negative continuously, and excursions started by a jump, the present description is in terms of excursions away from the supremum continued up to a return time. In the unbounded variation case with zero Gaussian coefficient previously excluded, excursions start negative continuously, but the excursion measures away from the right inverse and away from a point are mutually singular. We also provide a new construction and a new formula for the Laplace exponent of the minimal right inverse.

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Mladen Savov. Matthias Winkel. "Right inverses of Levy processes: the excursion measure in the general case." Electron. Commun. Probab. 15 572 - 584, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1214/ECP.v15-1590

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Accepted: 12 December 2010; Published: 2010
First available in Project Euclid: 6 June 2016

zbMATH: 1226.60071
MathSciNet: MR2746335
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/ECP.v15-1590

Subjects:
Primary: 60G51

Keywords: excursion , fluctuation theory , Levy process , right inverse , subordinator

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