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Finite time hitting probabilities for Brownian motion in the plane

Consider a Brownian particle in the plane with a circular trap at the origin. If we give the particle enough time it falls into the trap (since Brownian motion is space filling in 2D). However, ...
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The Wiener measure of an open set

There is so much written about the Brownian motion and I suspect the answers to the questions below are hidden in somewhere in the literature but I cannot find them Denote by $E$ the Banach space ...
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Endpoint of Brownian motion conditional on high maxima

Note: This question is closely related to an earlier question: A large noise limit. Let $W$ be a standard one dimensional Brownian motion. For every $\varepsilon > 0$, let $A_\varepsilon$ denote ...
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Forgery theorem: the Brownian motion stays close to any curve with positive probability

In a paper I am reading the authors claim that, if $B$ is a standard BM in $\mathbb{R}$ and $f\in C([0,1],\mathbb{R})$, then for any $\epsilon>0$ $$ \mathbb{P}(\sup_{t\in [0,1]}|B_t-f(t)|<\...
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Fractional Brownian motion of Riemann-Liouville type is not a semimartingale

Given a filtered probability space $(\Omega,\mathcal{F},\mathbb{F},\mathbb{P})$ satisfying the usual conditions, $B$ a standard one-dimensional Brownian motion and $H\in(0,1/2)$. Consider the process $...
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Brownian motion in $n$ dimensions

Consider a particle starting at the origin in $\mathbb{R}^n$ and undergoing Brownian motion. Is there an expression known for the probability of the particle hitting the sphere $S^{n - 1}_r = \{x \in \...
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Malliavin derivative of stopped Brownian motion

Cross-posted from: "https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3917971/malliavin-derivative-of-stopped-brownian-motion" I have a small question concerning the Malliavin derivatives. It could ...
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Scaling of First-passage times for Random Walk on integer lattices

Consider simple symmetric random walk $S_{n} = (S_{n}^{(1)},\dots, S_{n}^{(d)})$ on the d-dimensional integer lattice with starting point the origin. Let $\tau_{N}$ be the first time $S_{n}$ exits ...
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Area enclosed by Brownian motion (without winding number)

The question Average Value of Area Closed by Brownian Motion turned out to be about the Lévy area process, which measures "signed area with multiplicity" enclosed by Brownian motion (e.g. each ...
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Exercise on a hitting time for a Brownian Motion

I'm following Chapter 3 of "Brownian Motion", by Peres and Mörters, about The Dirichlet Problem(DP). As it is known, in order to obtain existence and uniqueness of a solution for DP it is necessary to ...
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Orthonormal frame bundles on a manifold

Let $(\mathcal{M},g)$ be a torsion free compact Riemannian manifold of dimension $n$. Hence from the metric we know there is an associated horizontal sub-bundle $H_u F \mathcal{M}$ of the orthonormal ...
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Brownian level sets and continuous functions

Let $V_t$ and $W_t$ be independent standard Wiener processes ($t\ge 0$, $W_t,V_t\in\mathbb R$). Let $C$ be the event that there is a continuous function $f$ such that for all $s$, $t$, $$ W_t=W_s\iff ...
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Strong solution for geometric brownian motion with varying drift and volatility

I have an equation of the form: $$dX_{t}=\mu(X_{t})X_{t}dt+\sigma(X_{t})X_tdZ_{t}$$ I know that if I wrote it as $dX_{t}=\mu(X_{t})dt+\sigma(X_{t})dZ_{t}$, I would need strong assumptions on the ...
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Question about the exit time of a time-homogeneous Itô diffusion

Consider a one-dimensional Itô diffusion: $$\mathrm{d} X_{t}=b\left(X_{t}\right) \mathrm{d} t+\sigma\left(X_{t}\right) \mathrm{d} B_{t}$$ where $X_0 = 0$ and $B_t$ is the standard Brownian Motion. ...
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Expectation of $B_u \operatorname{argmax}_t B_t$

This question is a repost from math.stackexchange. The question turned out to be harder than I initially thought, so I decided to try my luck here. Yesterday I asked a question about the joint law of ...
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Reflected SDE with non-Lipschitz coefficients

I have an equation of the form: $$dX_t=\mu(X_t)dt+\sigma(X_t)dZ_t+dL_t, \quad X_0=x_0\in (-\infty,a]$$ where, $L_t$ is the reflection function (as in Skorokhod, 1961). This reflection does not allow ...
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Comparison of the numbers of particles surviving forever

Consider two $N\text{-}$particle systems as follows : for $1\le i\le N$, $$X^i_t=1+\int_0^t(b+\phi^i_s) \, ds+W^i_t \quad\mbox{and} \quad Y^i_t=1+ct+W^i_t,\quad \forall t\ge 0,$$ where $c>b>0$ ...
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Differentiable approximation of Brownian diffusion with bounded volatility

Let $\{W_t\}_{t\in[0;T]}$ be a one-dimensional Brownian motion and let $\{\mathcal F_t\}_{t\in[0;T]}$ be the augmented filtration generated by this Brownian motion. Let $\{\sigma_t\}_{t\in[0;T]}$ be ...
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Probability to cross dynamic boundary for 1D-random walk?

context: Imagine we have an evolving bit sequence (ex: 001011...) where the probability to get 0 or 1 is 1/2. n is the lengh of my sequence (the number of bits) I can make an analogy with random walk: ...
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Quadratic covariation of two not independent Brownian motions

Given two not independent Brownian motions, $X$ and $Y$. I was wondering if we can say anything about the quadratic covariation of $X$ and $Y$, $\langle X,Y \rangle_t$. I know that for two independent ...
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