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Inference for a Special Bilinear Time Series Model
It is well known that estimating bilinear models is quite challenging. Many
different ideas have been proposed to solve this problem. However, there is not
a simple way to do inference even for its simple cases. This paper studies the
special bilinear model where is a sequence of i.i.d. random
variables with mean zero. We first give a sufficient condition for the
existence of a unique stationary solution for the model and then propose a
GARCH-type maximum likelihood estimator for estimating the unknown parameters.
It is shown that the GMLE is consistent and asymptotically normal under only
finite fourth moment of errors. Also a simple consistent estimator for the
asymptotic covariance is provided. A simulation study confirms the good finite
sample performance. Our estimation approach is novel and nonstandard and it may
provide a new insight for future research in this direction.Comment: 23 pages, 1 figures, 3 table
A survey of Hirota's difference equations
A review of selected topics in Hirota's bilinear difference equation (HBDE)
is given. This famous 3-dimensional difference equation is known to provide a
canonical integrable discretization for most important types of soliton
equations. Similarly to the continuous theory, HBDE is a member of an infinite
hierarchy. The central point of our exposition is a discrete version of the
zero curvature condition explicitly written in the form of discrete
Zakharov-Shabat equations for M-operators realized as difference or
pseudo-difference operators. A unified approach to various types of M-operators
and zero curvature representations is suggested. Different reductions of HBDE
to 2-dimensional equations are considered. Among them discrete counterparts of
the KdV, sine-Gordon, Toda chain, relativistic Toda chain and other typical
examples are discussed in detail.Comment: LaTeX, 43 pages, LaTeX figures (with emlines2.sty
Notes on the BMS group in three dimensions: I. Induced representations
The Bondi-Metzner-Sachs group in three dimensions is the symmetry group of
asymptotically flat three-dimensional spacetimes. It is the semi-direct product
of the diffeomorphism group of the circle with the space of its adjoint
representation, embedded as an abelian normal subgroup. The structure of the
group suggests to study induced representations; we show here that they are
associated with the well-known coadjoint orbits of the Virasoro group and
provide explicit representations in terms of one-particle states.Comment: 33 pages, LaTeX file. v3: Minimal changes in the introduction.
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A class of stochastic unit-root bilinear processes: Mixing properties and unit-root test
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Estimating Functions and Equations: An Essay on Historical Developments with Applications to Econometrics
The idea of using estimating functions goes a long way back, at least to Karl Pearson's introduction to the method of moments in 1894. It is now a very active area of research in the statistics literature. One aim of this chapter is to provide an account of the developments relating to the theory of estimating functions. Starting from the simple case of a single parameter under independence, we cover the multiparameter, presence of nuisance parameters and dependent data cases. Application of the estimating functions technique to econometrics is still at its infancy. However, we illustrate how this estimation approach could be used in a number of time series models, such as random coefficient, threshold, bilinear, autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity models, in models of spatial and longitudinal data, and median regression analysis. The chapter is concluded with some remarks on the place of estimating functions in the history of estimation.
Introduction to the nonequilibrium functional renormalization group
In these lectures we introduce the functional renormalization group out of
equilibrium. While in thermal equilibrium typically a Euclidean formulation is
adequate, nonequilibrium properties require real-time descriptions. For quantum
systems specified by a given density matrix at initial time, a generating
functional for real-time correlation functions can be written down using the
Schwinger-Keldysh closed time path. This can be used to construct a
nonequilibrium functional renormalization group along similar lines as for
Euclidean field theories in thermal equilibrium. Important differences include
the absence of a fluctuation-dissipation relation for general
out-of-equilibrium situations. The nonequilibrium renormalization group takes
on a particularly simple form at a fixed point, where the corresponding
scale-invariant system becomes independent of the details of the initial
density matrix. We discuss some basic examples, for which we derive a hierarchy
of fixed point solutions with increasing complexity from vacuum and thermal
equilibrium to nonequilibrium. The latter solutions are then associated to the
phenomenon of turbulence in quantum field theory.Comment: Lectures given at the 49th Schladming Winter School `Physics at all
scales: The Renormalization Group' (to appear in the proceedings); 24 pages,
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