We present a satisfactory definition of the important class of Lévy processes indexed by a general collection of sets. We use a new definition for increment stationarity of set-indexed processes to obtain different characterizations of this class. As an example, the set-indexed compound Poisson...

We study a zero-sum game where the evolution of a spectrally one-sided Lévy process is modified by a singular controller and is terminated by the stopper. The singular controller minimizes the expected values of running, controlling and terminal costs while the stopper maximizes them. Using...

Motivated by the recent results of Nualart and Xu (2013) concerning limits laws for occupation times of one dimensional symmetric stable processes, this paper proves a decomposition for functionals of one dimensional symmetric Lévy processes under certain conditions on the characteristic...

We study a reaction–diffusion evolution equation perturbed by a space–time Lévy noise. The associated Kolmogorov operator is the sum of the infinitesimal generator of a C0-semigroup of strictly negative type acting on a Hilbert space and a nonlinear term which has at most polynomial growth,...

We consider the regularity of sample paths of Volterra–Lévy processes. These processes are defined as stochastic integrals M(t)=∫0tF(t,r)dX(r),t∈R+, where X is a Lévy process and F is a deterministic real-valued function. We derive the spectrum of singularities and a result on the...

In this paper, Hunt’s hypothesis (H) and Getoor’s conjecture for Lévy processes are revisited. Let X be a Lévy process on Rn with Lévy–Khintchine exponent (a,A,μ). First, we show that if A is non-degenerate then X satisfies (H). Second, under the assumption that μ(Rn∖ARn)∞, we...

In this paper, we consider a large class of subordinate Brownian motions X via subordinators with Laplace exponents which are complete Bernstein functions satisfying some mild scaling conditions at zero and at infinity. We first discuss how such conditions govern the behavior of the subordinator...

Processes with independent increments are proven to be the unique solutions of duality formulas. This result is based on a simple characterization of infinitely divisible random vectors by a functional equation in which a difference operator appears. This operator is constructed by a variational...

We discuss the existence and characterization of quasi-stationary distributions and Yaglom limits of self-similar Markov processes that reach 0 in finite time. By Yaglom limit, we mean the existence of a deterministic function g and a non-trivial probability measure ν such that the process...

Thresholded Realized Power Variations (TPVs) are one of the most popular nonparametric estimators for general continuous-time processes with a wide range of applications. In spite of their popularity, a common drawback lies in the necessity of choosing a suitable threshold for the estimator, an...