Local Times and Related Properties of Multidimensional Iterated Brownian Motion

Author: Xiao Y.  

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

ISSN: 0894-9840

Source: Journal of Theoretical Probability, Vol.11, Iss.2, 1998-04, pp. : 383-408

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Abstract

Let {W(t), t∈R} and {B(t), t≥0} be two independent Brownian motions in R with W(0) = B(0) = 0 and let Y(t)=W(B(t)) \qquad (t \ge 0) be the iterated Brownian motion. Define d-dimensional iterated Brownian motion by X(t)=(X_1(t)_{,\ldots,}X_d(t)) \qquad (t \ge 0) where X1,…, Xd are independent copies of Y. In this paper, we investigate the existence, joint continuity and Hölder conditions in the set variable of the local time L=\{L(x,B):x \in {\bf R}^d, B \in {\mathscr B}({\bf R}_+)\} of X(t), where {\mathscr B}({\bf B}_+) is the Borel -algebra of R+. These results are applied to study the irregularities of the sample paths and the uniform Hausdorff dimension of the image and inverse images of X(t).