In this paper, we consider a long-time behavior of stable-like processes. A stable-like process is a Feller process given by the symbol p(x,ξ)=−iβ(x)ξ+γ(x)|ξ|α(x), where α(x)∈(0,2), β(x)∈R and γ(x)∈(0,∞). More precisely, we give sufficient conditions for recurrence, transience...

This paper provides a simple approach for the consideration of quadratic BSDEs with bounded terminal conditions. Using solely probabilistic arguments, we retrieve the existence and uniqueness result derived via PDE-based methods by Kobylanski (2000) [14]. This approach is related to the study of...

We consider the discrete time threshold-θ contact process on a random r-regular graph. We show that if θ≥2, r≥θ+2, ϵ1 is small and p≥p1(ϵ1), then starting from all vertices occupied the fraction of occupied vertices is ≥1−2ϵ1 up to time exp(γ1(r)n) with high probability. We also...

We provide sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of solutions to a stochastic differential equation which arises in the price impact model developed by Bank and Kramkov (2011) [1,2]. These conditions are stated as smoothness and boundedness requirements on utility functions or...

We consider the small mass asymptotic (Smoluchowski–Kramers approximation) for the Langevin equation with a variable friction coefficient. The friction coefficient is assumed to be vanishing within certain region. We introduce a regularization for this problem and study the limiting motion for...

We investigate the behavior of systems of interacting diffusion processes, known as volatility-stabilized market models in the mathematical finance literature, when the number of diffusions tends to infinity. We show that, after an appropriate rescaling of the time parameter, the empirical...

The expected areas of the Wiener sausages swept by a disc attached to the two-dimensional Brownian Bridge joining the origin to a point x over a time interval [0,t] are computed. It is proved that the leading term of the expectation is given by Ramanujan’s function if |x|=O(t). The second term...

In this paper a concentration inequality is proved for the deviation in the ergodic theorem for diffusion processes in the case of discrete time observations. The proof is based on geometric ergodicity of diffusion processes. We consider as an application the nonparametric pointwise estimation...

We consider a nearest neighbor random walk on Z which is reflecting at 0 and perturbed when it reaches its maximum. We compute the law of the hitting times and derive many corollaries, especially invariance principles with (rather) explicit descriptions of the asymptotic laws. We also obtain...

The need to calibrate increasingly complex statistical models requires a persistent effort for further advances on available, computationally intensive Monte-Carlo methods. We study here an advanced version of familiar Markov-chain Monte-Carlo (MCMC) algorithms that sample from target...