119 research outputs found
Time irregularity of generalized Ornstein--Uhlenbeck processes
The paper is concerned with the properties of solutions to linear evolution
equation perturbed by cylindrical L\'evy processes. It turns out that
solutions, under rather weak requirements, do not have c\`adl\`ag modification.
Some natural open questions are also stated
Cooling down Levy flights
Let L(t) be a Levy flights process with a stability index \alpha\in(0,2), and
U be an external multi-well potential. A jump-diffusion Z satisfying a
stochastic differential equation dZ(t)=-U'(Z(t-))dt+\sigma(t)dL(t) describes an
evolution of a Levy particle of an `instant temperature' \sigma(t) in an
external force field. The temperature is supposed to decrease polynomially
fast, i.e. \sigma(t)\approx t^{-\theta} for some \theta>0. We discover two
different cooling regimes. If \theta<1/\alpha (slow cooling), the jump
diffusion Z(t) has a non-trivial limiting distribution as t\to \infty, which is
concentrated at the potential's local minima. If \theta>1/\alpha (fast cooling)
the Levy particle gets trapped in one of the potential wells
On the strict value of the non-linear optimal stopping problem
We address the non-linear strict value problem in the case of a general filtration and a completely irregular pay-off process (ξt). While the value process (Vt) of the non-linear problem is only right-uppersemicontinuous, we show that the strict value process (V+t) is necessarily right-continuous. Moreover, the strict value process (V+t) coincides with the process of right-limits (Vt+) of the value process. As an auxiliary result, we obtain that a strong non-linear f-supermartingale is right-continuous if and only if it is right-continuous along stopping times in conditional f-expectation
Geometric shape of invariant manifolds for a class of stochastic partial differential equations
Invariant manifolds play an important role in the study of the qualitative
dynamical behaviors for nonlinear stochastic partial differential equations.
However, the geometric shape of these manifolds is largely unclear. The purpose
of the present paper is to try to describe the geometric shape of invariant
manifolds for a class of stochastic partial differential equations with
multiplicative white noises. The local geometric shape of invariant manifolds
is approximated, which holds with significant likelihood. Furthermore, the
result is compared with that for the corresponding deterministic partial
differential equations
The problem of analytical calculation of barrier crossing characteristics for Levy flights
By using the backward fractional Fokker-Planck equation we investigate the
barrier crossing event in the presence of Levy noise. After shortly review
recent results obtained with different approaches on the time characteristics
of the barrier crossing, we derive a general differential equation useful to
calculate the nonlinear relaxation time. We obtain analytically the nonlinear
relaxation time for free Levy flights and a closed expression in quadrature of
the same characteristics for cubic potential.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figures, presented at 5th International Conference on
Unsolved Problems on Noise, Lyon, France, 2008, to appear in J. Stat. Mech.:
Theory and Experimen
Pesin's Formula for Random Dynamical Systems on
Pesin's formula relates the entropy of a dynamical system with its positive
Lyapunov exponents. It is well known, that this formula holds true for random
dynamical systems on a compact Riemannian manifold with invariant probability
measure which is absolutely continuous with respect to the Lebesgue measure. We
will show that this formula remains true for random dynamical systems on
which have an invariant probability measure absolutely continuous to the
Lebesgue measure on . Finally we will show that a broad class of
stochastic flows on of a Kunita type satisfies Pesin's formula.Comment: 35 page
Stochastic resonance for nonequilibrium systems
Stochastic resonance (SR) is a prominent phenomenon in many natural and engineered noisy systems, whereby the response to a periodic forcing is greatly amplified when the intensity of the noise is tuned to within a specific range of values. We propose here a general mathematical framework based on large deviation theory and, specifically, on the theory of quasipotentials, for describing SR in noisy
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-dimensional nonequilibrium systems possessing two metastable states and undergoing a periodically modulated forcing. The drift and the volatility fields of the equations of motion can be fairly general, and the competing attractors of the deterministic dynamics and the edge state living on the basin boundary can, in principle, feature chaotic dynamics. Similarly, the perturbation field of the forcing can be fairly general. Our approach is able to recover as special cases the classical results previously presented in the literature for systems obeying detailed balance and allows for expressing the parameters describing SR and the statistics of residence times in the two-state approximation in terms of the unperturbed drift field, the volatility field, and the perturbation field. We clarify which specific properties of the forcing are relevant for amplifying or suppressing SR in a system and classify forcings according to classes of equivalence. Our results indicate a route for a detailed understanding of SR in rather general systems
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