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Question/References on the Skorokhod M1 topology
Let $D(0,T)$ be the space of right continuous functions with left limits defined on $[0,T]$. Consider the Skorokhod M1 topology on $D(0,T)$, see e.g. S. Ledger, Skorokhod’s M1 topology for ...
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Spectral gap for the Brownian motion with drift on a compact manifold
Let $M$ be a compact Riemannian manifold without boundary, $X$ a smooth vector field on $M$. Consider the Brownian motion $t\mapsto B_t$ on $M$ with drift $X$, so that its generator is $L=\Delta +X$. ...
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Support of a Measure with Characteristic Functional Continuous in $L_p$, $1\leq p <2$?
Let $\mathcal{S}(\mathbb{R})$ be the space of smooth and rapidly decaying functions and $\mathcal{S}'(\mathbb{R})$ its dual, the space of tempered distributions. Let $\mathscr{P}$ be a probability ...
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Book recommendation in functional analysis and probability
I am interested by functional analysis and probability. I would like to know if you have any books that deal with these two subjects (at a graduate level) to recommend?
I'm looking for a book that has ...
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Compactness of semigroups of one-dimensional diffusions
I have a question about semigroups of one-dimensional diffusions.
Let $X$ be the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process on $\mathbb{R}$. The generator is expresses as
$$\frac{d^2}{dx^2}-x\frac{d}{dx}.$$
It is ...
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Definition of the Stratonovich integral in Hilbert spaces
Let
$T>0$
$(\Omega,\mathcal A,\operatorname P)$ be a probability space
$\mathcal F=(\mathcal F_t)_{t\in[0,\:T]}$ be a filtration on $(\Omega,\mathcal A,\operatorname P)$
$B$ be a (standard, real-...
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Markov operators and existence of ergodic measures
My question refers to the yesterday's question (see here)
of John Learner and goes as follows:
Can we deduce the existence of an ergodic measure if we know that an invariant measure exists, but the ...
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How fast is discrete-time diffusion on a continuous set?
This question is inspired by Joseph O'Rourke's beautiful answer to my previous question.
Let $\mathbb{S}^{d\times n}$ denote the set of real $d\times n$ matrices whose columns have unit norm and sum ...
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The spectrum of a Markov Operator and Invariant Measures
Suppose I have a discrete-time Markov Chain (in an infinite dimensional state space $\Omega$) with Markov operator $P$, a linear operator on the space of bounded measurable functions on $\Omega$. (Or ...
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How does one define the gradient of a Markov semigroup?
In the context of functional inequalities for Markov semigroups $(\mathcal P_t)_{t\ge0}$, what is one denoting by $\nabla\mathcal P_tf$? For example, I've found the following assumption in this paper:
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Domain of the Generator of a Bessel process
Consider the Bessel Process of index $\nu\in (-1,0)$, or dimension $\delta=2\nu-1$
\begin{align}
\rho_{t}=x+\frac{\delta-1}{2}\int_{0}^{t}\frac{1}{\rho_{s}}\,ds+W_{t}
\end{align}
where $(W_{t})_{t\geq ...
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Perscribed/Inverting Conditional Expectation
I'm having difficulty finding papers which deal with the following inversion problem.
Suppose I have a stochastic process $Y_t$ (which is described by a certain Hilbert-Space-valued SDE). I want to ...
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Holder-Besov space and time continuity
Let $\mathbb{T}^d$ be the $d$-dimensional torus, $\mathscr{S}:=C^\infty(\mathbb{T}^d)$ the Schwartz space, $\mathscr{S}'$ the space of tempered distributions.
We consider a dyadic partition of unity $(...
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References for a class of Banach space-valued Gaussian processes
Let $E$ be a separable Banach space, consider a centered $E$-valued Gaussian process $\{x_t,t\ge 0\}$ that satisfies
\begin{equation}
\mathbb{E}\phi(x_s)\psi(x_t)=R(s,t)K(\phi,\psi),\quad \phi,\psi\in ...
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Is there a way to detect instantaneous states of a Feller Process from its infinitesimal generator?
I’m working with generators of Feller processes. If $C(E)$ is the space of continuous functions over $E$; with $E$ a compact metric space, I proved that an operator $G$ over $C(E)$ is the ...
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Uniqueness for measure valued ode
Morning! Basically I'm working on a mean field scaling for some measure valued process (valued on $M_F(\mathbb{N})$). The limit turns up as a (deterministic) solution to a measure valued ODE. Let's ...
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Tightness of Hilbert-space-valued arrays
Let $\mathcal{H}$ be a separable Hilbert space. Assume we have some triangular array $W_{n,j}, j=1, \ldots ,n $ of $\mathcal{H}$-valued random elements with $\mathbb{E} \Vert W_{n,j} \Vert_{\mathcal{H}...
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Weak convergence of $\mathcal{L}^2$ valued random variables
Consider two continuous functions $f,g: \mathbb{R}^{2} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ with $f(x,\cdot), g(x,\cdot) \in \mathcal{L}^2(\mathbb{R},\mathcal{B},\lambda)$ for all $x \in \mathbb{R}$ and a sequence ...
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Stochastic Approximation in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space
Consider an iterative algorithm with incremental updates
\begin{align}
x_{t+1} = x_t + \alpha_t \cdot [ h(x_t) + M_{t+1}],
\end{align}
where $\{x_t \}_{t \geq 0}$ is in a reproducing kernel Hilbert ...
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Question about continuity in the "complete Skorohod Topology"?
I am reading the book in progress of Timo Seppäläinen about the "Translation Invariant Exclusion Process"
https://www.math.wisc.edu/~seppalai/excl-book/ajo.pdf
In one of the exercises, exercise 8.9 ...
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Must rows of a transition matrix be distinct?
Is it true that for all continuous time Markov processes on a countable state space $S$, we have
all rows of the transition matrix $\mathbf{P}_t$ are distinct for all time $t\in[0,\infty)$ ?
This ...
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Laplace transform of a integral function of CIR/CEV process
The Cox–Ingersoll–Ross model (or CIR model) describes the evolution of interest rates. Constant elasticity of variance model (CEV) is a stochastic volatility model, which attempts to capture ...
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Equivalence of two non-degenerate Gaussian measures on Banach space
The motivation of this question is to show that two probabilities on
$C_{0}^{n}(0,1)$ (the space of continuous $\mathbb R^{n}$ valued process
on $[0,1]$ starting from zero) induced by two non-...
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On calculating the second quantization operator $\Gamma(A)$ of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operator $A$
Let $A$ be a self-adjoint operator on a Hilbert space , and let $d\Gamma(A)$ be the generator of the second quantization of $A$. Consider the following theorem from Segal's "Non-Linear Quantum ...
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A question on Gaussian small ball probability
Consider the random variable $$ G = \sum_{j=1}^{\infty} \lambda_j Z_j^2 $$
where $Z_j \sim_{\substack{i.i.d}} N(0,1)$ and $\lambda_j$ some non increasing sequence of positive numbers with $\sum_{j=1}^{...
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Gaussian measures on infinite dimensional spaces
On Zabczyk & Da Prato book about infinite dimensional SDEs they introduce the idea of Gaussian measures in infinite dimensional Banach spaces. They do so by means of Fernique theorem.
In the ...
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A question about Stroock's notes on the Weyl lemma
On p.4 of these notes, D. Stroock gives a quick and efficient construction of the Markov transition functions of a certain diffusion. The idea of his construction (on page 4) is to 'freeze' the ...
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Angle between Fleming-Viot type 3-particle system
Consider $(X^1,X^2,X^3)\in (0,\infty)^3$ with each particle starting at $1$ and moving independently according to Brownian motion until random time $\tau_1:=\min \lbrace t>0: X_{t-}^1\wedge X_{t-}^...
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Gradient bound for the Markov semigroup generated by the solution to an Langevin SDE
Let
$h\in C^2(\mathbb R)$ with $$h''\ge\rho\tag1$$ for some $\rho>0$ and $$\int\underbrace{e^{-h}}_{=:\:\varrho}\:{\rm d}\lambda=1$$
$\mu$ be the measure with density $\varrho$ with respect to the ...
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Convergence and boundedness in $L^\infty([0,T]\times \Omega)$ of Karhunen-Loeve expansion
Let $X:[0,T]\times\Omega\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ be a stochastic process in $L^2([0,T]\times\Omega)$. Consider the Karhunen-Loeve expansion of $X$:
$$ X(t,\omega)=\mu_X(t)+\sum_{n=1}^\infty \sqrt{\nu_n}\...
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Linear evolution equation $u'(t)=A(t,\omega)u(t)$ with time-dependent random operator
I have had some previous knowledge on evolution equations in a Banach space of the form $$u'(t)=Au(t),$$ where $A$ generates some strongly continuous operator semigroup. Now I am looking at a problem ...
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Defining density of a random function using Radon-Nikodym Theorem
Let $(\Omega,\mathbb{F},P)$ be a probability space and $E$ be an infinite dimensional Banach space and $\mathbb{B}$ be the $\sigma$-algebra of Borel subset of $E$.
Let $X$ be random function defined ...
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Spectral gap of a Markov chain on the nonnegative integers
Let $\lambda_k,\mu_k\in\mathbb R_{\ge0}$ $(k\ge1)$ be nonnegative real numbers such that $\sum_{k=1}^\infty k\lambda_k<\infty,$ let $S=\mathbb Z_{\ge0}$ be the nonnegative integers, let $T=\mathbb ...
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Measurable Extension
Let $(\Omega, \mathcal{F})$ be a measurable space and $X$ some metric space (probably Polish) with the Borel $\sigma$-algebra and a function $f: \Omega \times X \to \mathbb{R}$. Usually, functions ...
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Different measurability of Hilbert-space valued random variable
My question is motivated by this link.
Let $(\Omega,\mathcal{F})$ and $(Y,\mathcal{B})$ be measurable spaces, a measurable map $T:\Omega\to Y$ is called a $Y$-valued random variable.
Now let $H$ be a ...
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Independence of variables predicted by the generator
Let $X$ be en compact metric set, and denote by $\mathcal{C}(X)$ the set of real continuous functions defined on $X$, endowed with the supremum norm $\|\cdot\|_{\infty}$. Let $\Omega$ be the generator ...
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criterions for polar set of Feller processes
Suppose $X_t$ is the solution to
$$
d X_t=b(X_t)dt+dL_t,\quad X_0=x.
$$
where $L$ is a rotational symmetric $\alpha-$stable process with $\alpha\in (0,1]$, $b$ is Lipchitz.
Assume $\Gamma\subseteq ...
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Hadamard product (Schur product) in $L^2[0,1]$
Let's consider the separable Hilbert space $\mathcal{H} = L^2[0,1]$ of square-integrable functions on the interval $[0,1]$ with orthonormal basis $(e_j)$. For $x,y \in \mathcal{H}$, the Hadamard ...
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Comparison of Parameter estimation using maximum likelihood and Maximum entropy
I am not sure if the question is appropriate but I want to try my luck. One can estimate a parameter using maximum likelihood and we know it is optimal. On the other hand there are methods which uses ...
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