In this paper linear stochastic evolution equations driven by infinite-dimensional fractional Brownian motion are studied. A necessary and sufficient condition for the existence and uniqueness of the solution is established and the spatial regularity of the solution is analyzed; separate proofs are required for the cases of Hurst parameter above and below 1/2. The particular case of the Laplaci...

We derive the asymptotic behavior of weighted quadratic variations of fractional Brownian motion B with Hurst index H = 1/4. This completes the only missing case in a very recent work by I. Nourdin, D. Nualart and C. A. Tudor. Moreover, as an application, we solve a recent conjecture of K. Burdzy and J. Swanson on the asymptotic behavior of the Riemann sums with alternating signs associated to B.

The discovery of the self similarity of Ethernet traac at Bellcore has had a profound eeect on the world of performance modelling. This paper examines the eeects of self similarity of input traac on the performance of a queue. We use a traac characterisation due to Robert and Le Boudec which allows self similar traac with an arbitrary mean and Hurst parameter to be generated. The technique give...

We consider a queue fed by Gaussian traffic and give conditions on the input process under which the path space large deviations of the queue are governed by the rate function of the fractional Brownian motion. As an example we consider input traffic that is composed of of independent streams, each of which is a fractional Brownian motion, having different Hurst indices.

We consider the problem of efficient estimation for the drift of fractional Brownian motion B := ( B t ) t∈[0,T ] with hurst parameter H less than 1 2 . We also construct superefficient James-Stein type estimators which dominate, under the usual quadratic risk, the natural maximum likelihood estimator.

We consider a passive scalar in a periodic shear flow perturbed by an additive fractional noise with the Hurst exponent H ∈ (0, 1). We establish a diffusive homogenization limit for the tracer when the Hurst exponent H ∈ (0, 1/2). We also identify an intermediate range of times when the tracer behaves diffusively even when H ∈ (1/2, 1). The proof is based on an auxiliary limit theorem for an ad...

Given a two-dimensional fractional multiplicative process (Ft)t∈[0,1] determined by two Hurst exponents H1 and H2, we show that there is an associated uniform Hausdorff dimension result for the images of subsets of [0, 1] by F if and only if H1 = H2.

While the presence of long-range dependence in the asset returns seems to be a stylized fact, the issue of arguing the possible causes of this phenomena is totally obscure. Trying to shed light in this problem, we investigate the possible sources of the long-range dependence phenomena in the Brazilian Stock Market. For this purpose, we employ a sample which comprises stocks traded in the Brazil...

Let B and e B be two independent, d-dimensional fractional Brownian motions with Hurst parameter H ∈ (0, 1) . Assume d ≥ 2. We prove that the intersection local time of B and e B I(BH , e BH) = Z

A positive recurrent, aperiodic Markov chain is said to be long range dependent (LRD) when the indicator function of a particular state is LRD. This happens if and only if the return time distribution for that state has infinite variance. We investigate the question of whether other instantaneous functions of the Markov chain also inherit this property. We provide conditions under which the fun...