Excursions of diffusion processes and continued fractions
Comtet, Alain ; Tourigny, Yves
Annales de l'I.H.P. Probabilités et statistiques, Tome 47 (2011), p. 850-874 / Harvested from Numdam
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Il est bien connu que les excursions d'un processus de diffusion peuvent être étudiées en considérant une certaine équation de Riccati associée au processus. On montre que, dans beaucoup de cas intéressants, certaines solutions de cette équation de Riccati peuvent être développées en fraction continue. On examine le contenu probabiliste de ce développement. Ces résultats sont illustrés par quelques exemples de diffusions en milieux aléatoires et déterministes.

It is well-known that the excursions of a one-dimensional diffusion process can be studied by considering a certain Riccati equation associated with the process. We show that, in many cases of interest, the Riccati equation can be solved in terms of an infinite continued fraction. We examine the probabilistic significance of the expansion. To illustrate our results, we discuss some examples of diffusions in deterministic and in random environments.

Publié le : 2011-01-01
DOI : https://doi.org/10.1214/10-AIHP390
Classification:  60J60,  30B70 
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Comtet, Alain; Tourigny, Yves. Excursions of diffusion processes and continued fractions. Annales de l'I.H.P. Probabilités et statistiques, Tome 47 (2011) pp. 850-874. doi : 10.1214/10-AIHP390. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/AIHPB_2011__47_3_850_0/

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