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Smoothness of scale functions for spectrally negative Lévy processes

Chan, T., Kyprianou, A.E. and Savov, M. (2011) Smoothness of scale functions for spectrally negative Lévy processes. Probability Theory and Related Fields, 150 (3-4). pp. 691-708. ISSN 1432-2064

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To link to this item DOI: 10.1007/s00440-010-0289-4

Abstract/Summary

Scale functions play a central role in the fluctuation theory of spectrally negative Lévy processes and often appear in the context of martingale relations. These relations are often require excursion theory rather than Itô calculus. The reason for the latter is that standard Itô calculus is only applicable to functions with a sufficient degree of smoothness and knowledge of the precise degree of smoothness of scale functions is seemingly incomplete. The aim of this article is to offer new results concerning properties of scale functions in relation to the smoothness of the underlying Lévy measure. We place particular emphasis on spectrally negative Lévy processes with a Gaussian component and processes of bounded variation. An additional motivation is the very intimate relation of scale functions to renewal functions of subordinators. The results obtained for scale functions have direct implications offering new results concerning the smoothness of such renewal functions for which there seems to be very little existing literature on this topic.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Mathematics and Statistics
ID Code:29108
Publisher:Springer

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