Narrow Results

Eigenfunctions of the Lévy Laplacian with an arbitrary real number as an eigenvalue are constructed by means of a coordinate change of white noise distributions. The Lévy Laplacian is diagonalized on the direct integral Hilbert space of such eigenfunctions and the corresponding equi-continuous semigroup is obtained. Moreover, an infinite dimensional stochastic process related to the Lévy Laplacian is constructed from a one-dimensional stable process.

In this paper, with a simple condition on Lévy measure, we construct the (tempered) generalized fractional Lévy processes (GFLP) as Lévy white noise functionals and investigate their distribution and sample properties through this white noise approach. We also give some sufficient conditions under which the usual fractional Lévy processes (FLP) are well defined.

In this paper, we construct a class of infinitely divisible distributions on Gel′fand triple. Based on this construction, we define Lévy processes on Gel′fand triple and give their Lévy–Itô decompositions. Then, we construct the general Lévy white noises on Gel′fand triple. By using the Riemann–Liouville fractional integral method, we define the general fractional Lévy noises on Gel′fand triple and investigate their distribution properties.

We study first passage problems of a class of reflected generalized Ornstein–Uhlenbeck processes without positive jumps. By establishing an extended Dynkin's formula associated with the process, we derive that the joint Laplace transform of the first passage time and an integral functional stopped at the time satisfies a truncated integro-differential equation. Two solvable examples are presented when the driven Lévy process is a drifted-Brownian motion and a spectrally negative stable process with index α ∈ (1, 2], respectively. Finally, we give two applications in finance.

The space-fractional telegraph equation is analyzed and the Fourier transform of its fundamental solution is obtained and discussed.

A symmetric process with discontinuous trajectories, whose transition function satisfies the space-fractional telegraph equation, is presented. Its limiting behaviour and the connection with symmetric stable processes is also examined.