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Unified View on L\'evy White Noises: General Integrability Conditions and Applications to Linear SPDE
There exists several ways of constructing L\'evy white noise, for instance
are as a generalized random process in the sense of I.M. Gelfand and N.Y.
Vilenkin, or as an independently scattered random measure introduced by B.S.
Rajput and J. Rosinski. In this article, we unify those two approaches by
extending the L\'evy white noise, defined as a generalized random process, to
an independently scattered random measure. We are then able to give general
integrability conditions for L\'evy white noises, thereby maximally extending
their domain of definition. Based on this connection, we provide new criteria
for the practical determination of this domain of definition, including
specific results for the subfamilies of Gaussian, symmetric--stable,
Laplace, and compound Poisson noises. We also apply our results to formulate a
general criterion for the existence of generalized solutions of linear
stochastic partial differential equations driven by a L\'evy white noise.Comment: 43 page
Periodic Splines and Gaussian Processes for the Resolution of Linear Inverse Problems
This paper deals with the resolution of inverse problems in a periodic
setting or, in other terms, the reconstruction of periodic continuous-domain
signals from their noisy measurements. We focus on two reconstruction
paradigms: variational and statistical. In the variational approach, the
reconstructed signal is solution to an optimization problem that establishes a
tradeoff between fidelity to the data and smoothness conditions via a quadratic
regularization associated to a linear operator. In the statistical approach,
the signal is modeled as a stationary random process defined from a Gaussian
white noise and a whitening operator; one then looks for the optimal estimator
in the mean-square sense. We give a generic form of the reconstructed signals
for both approaches, allowing for a rigorous comparison of the two.We fully
characterize the conditions under which the two formulations yield the same
solution, which is a periodic spline in the case of sampling measurements. We
also show that this equivalence between the two approaches remains valid on
simulations for a broad class of problems. This extends the practical range of
applicability of the variational method
On the Continuity of Characteristic Functionals and Sparse Stochastic Modeling
The characteristic functional is the infinite-dimensional generalization of
the Fourier transform for measures on function spaces. It characterizes the
statistical law of the associated stochastic process in the same way as a
characteristic function specifies the probability distribution of its
corresponding random variable. Our goal in this work is to lay the foundations
of the innovation model, a (possibly) non-Gaussian probabilistic model for
sparse signals. This is achieved by using the characteristic functional to
specify sparse stochastic processes that are defined as linear transformations
of general continuous-domain white noises (also called innovation processes).
We prove the existence of a broad class of sparse processes by using the
Minlos-Bochner theorem. This requires a careful study of the regularity
properties, especially the boundedness in Lp-spaces, of the characteristic
functional of the innovations. We are especially interested in the functionals
that are only defined for p<1 since they appear to be associated with the
sparser kind of processes. Finally, we apply our main theorem of existence to
two specific subclasses of processes with specific invariance properties.Comment: 24 page
Gaussian versus Sparse Stochastic Processes:Construction, Regularity, Compressibility
Although our work lies in the field of random processes, this thesis was originally motivated by signal processing applications, mainly the stochastic modeling of sparse signals. We develop a mathematical study of the innovation model, under which a signal is described as a random process s that can be linearly and deterministically transformed into a white noise. The noise represents the unpredictable part of the signal, called its innovation, and is part of the family of Lévy white noises, which includes both Gaussian and Poisson noises. In mathematical terms, s satisfies the equation Ls=w where L is a differential operator and w a Lévy noise. The problem is therefore to study the solution of a stochastic differential equation driven by a Lévy noise. Gaussian models usually fail to reproduce the empirical sparsity observed in real-world signals. By contrast, Lévy models offer a wide range of random processes going from typically non-sparse (Gaussian) to very sparse ones (Poisson), and with many sparse signals standing between these two extremes. Our contributions can be divided in four parts. First, the cornerstone of our work is the theory of generalized random processes. Within this framework, all the considered random processes are seen as random tempered generalized functions and can be observed through smooth and rapidly decaying windows. This allows us to define the solutions of Ls=w, called generalized Lévy processes, in the most general setting. Then, we identify two limit phenomenons: the approximation of generalized Lévy processes by their Poisson counterparts, and the asymptotic behavior of generalized Lévy processes at coarse and fine scales. In the third part, we study the localization of Lévy noise in notorious function spaces (Hölder, Sobolev, Besov). As an application, characterize the local smoothness and the asymptotic growth rate of the Lévy noise. Finally, we quantify the local compressibility of the generalized Lévy processes, understood as a measure of the decreasing rate of their approximation error in an appropriate basis. From this last result, we provide a theoretical justification of the ability of the innovation model to represent sparse signals. The guiding principle of our research is the duality between the local and asymptotic properties of generalized Lévy processes. In particular, we highlight the relevant quantities, called the local and asymptotic indices, that allow quantifying the local regularity, the asymptotic growth rate, the limit behavior at coarse and fine scales, and the level of compressibility of the solutions of generalized Lévy processes
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