Fluctuation Theory for Lévy Processes Ecole d'Eté de Probabilités de Saint-Flour XXXV - 2005 /

Lévy processes, i.e. processes in continuous time with stationary and independent increments, are named after Paul Lévy, who made the connection with infinitely divisible distributions and described their structure. They form a flexible class of models, which have been applied to the study of storag...

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Main Author: Doney, Ronald A. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Picard, Jean (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
Series:Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1897
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Summary:Lévy processes, i.e. processes in continuous time with stationary and independent increments, are named after Paul Lévy, who made the connection with infinitely divisible distributions and described their structure. They form a flexible class of models, which have been applied to the study of storage processes, insurance risk, queues, turbulence, laser cooling, ... and of course finance, where the feature that they include examples having "heavy tails" is particularly important. Their sample path behaviour poses a variety of difficult and fascinating problems. Such problems, and also some related distributional problems, are addressed in detail in these notes that reflect the content of the course given by R. Doney in St. Flour in 2005.
Physical Description:IX, 155 p. online resource.
ISBN:9783540485117
ISSN:0075-8434 ;