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Iosif Pinelis
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If by "an independent stationary increment process" you mean "a stochastic process with independent, stationary increments", that is a Lévy process, then the answer is: of course, aside from deterministic drift processes, there exists no stochastic process $(X_t)$ that has "finite propagation speed".

This follows because then the distribution of $X_t$ is infinitely divisible (ID) for all real $t\ge0$, whereas as any compactly supported nondegenerate distribution is not IDany compactly supported nondegenerate distribution is not ID.

If by "an independent stationary increment process" you mean "a stochastic process with independent, stationary increments", that is a Lévy process, then the answer is: of course, aside from deterministic drift processes, there exists no stochastic process $(X_t)$ that has "finite propagation speed".

This follows because then the distribution of $X_t$ is infinitely divisible (ID) for all real $t\ge0$, whereas as any compactly supported nondegenerate distribution is not ID.

If by "an independent stationary increment process" you mean "a stochastic process with independent, stationary increments", that is a Lévy process, then the answer is: of course, aside from deterministic drift processes, there exists no stochastic process $(X_t)$ that has "finite propagation speed".

This follows because then the distribution of $X_t$ is infinitely divisible (ID) for all real $t\ge0$, whereas any compactly supported nondegenerate distribution is not ID.

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Iosif Pinelis
  • 127.7k
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  • 107
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If by "an independent stationary increment process" you mean "a stochastic process with independent, stationary increments", that is a Lévy process, then the answer is: of course, aside from deterministic drift processes, there exists no stochastic process $(X_t)$ that has "finite propagation speed".

This follows because then the distribution of $X_t$ is infinitely divisible (ID) for all real $t\ge0$, whereas as any compactly supported nondegenerate distribution is not ID.