On the Lengths of Excursions of Some Markov Processes

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  • Jim Pitman
چکیده

Results are obtained regarding the distribution of the ranked lengths of component intervals in the complement of the random set of times when a recurrent Markov process returns to its starting point. Various martingales are described in terms of the L evy measure of the Poisson point process of interval lengths on the local time scale. The martingales derived from the zero set of a one-dimensional di usion are related to martingales studied by Az ema and Rainer. Formulae are obtained which show how the distribution of interval lengths is a ected when the underlying process is subjected to a Girsanov transformation. In particular, results for the zero set of an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process or a Cox-Ingersoll-Ross process are derived from results for a Brownian motion or recurrent Bessel process, when the zero set is the range of a stable subordinator.

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تاریخ انتشار 1996