Alternative micropulses and fractional Brownian motion

Abstract

We showed in an earlier paper (1995a) that negatively correlated fractional Brownian motion (FBM) can be generated as a fractal sum of one kind of micropulses (FSM). That is, FBM of exponent is the limit (in the sense of finite-dimensional distributions) of a certain sequence of processes obtained as sums of rectangular pulses. We now show that more general pulses yield a wide range of FBMs: either negatively (as before) or positively () correlated. We begin with triangular (conical and semi-conical) pulses. To transform them into micropulses, the base angle is made to decrease to zero, while the number of pulses, determined by a Poisson random measure, is made to increase to infinity. Then we extend our results to more general pulse shapes.Fractal sums of pulses Fractal sums of micropulses Fractional Brownian motion Poisson random measure Self-similarity Self-affinity Stationarity of increments