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Levy Processes with Two-Sided Reflection

Andersen, Lars Norvang ; Asmussen, Soren ; Glynn, Peter W. and Pihlsgård, Mats LU (2015) In Lecture Notes in Mathematics 2149. p.67-182
Abstract
Let X be a Levy process and V the reflection at boundaries 0 and b > 0. A number of properties of V are studied, with particular emphasis on the behaviour at the upper boundary b. The process V can be represented as solution of a Skorokhod problem V(t) = V(0)+X(t)+L(t)-U(t) where L, U are the local times (regulators) at the lower and upper barrier. Explicit forms of V in terms of X are surveyed as well as more pragmatic approaches to the construction of V, and the stationary distribution pi is characterised in terms of a two-barrier first passage problem. A key quantity in applications is the loss rate l(b) at b, defined as E-pi U(1). Various forms of l(b) and various derivations are presented, and the asymptotics as b -> infinity is... (More)
Let X be a Levy process and V the reflection at boundaries 0 and b > 0. A number of properties of V are studied, with particular emphasis on the behaviour at the upper boundary b. The process V can be represented as solution of a Skorokhod problem V(t) = V(0)+X(t)+L(t)-U(t) where L, U are the local times (regulators) at the lower and upper barrier. Explicit forms of V in terms of X are surveyed as well as more pragmatic approaches to the construction of V, and the stationary distribution pi is characterised in terms of a two-barrier first passage problem. A key quantity in applications is the loss rate l(b) at b, defined as E-pi U(1). Various forms of l(b) and various derivations are presented, and the asymptotics as b -> infinity is exhibited in both the light-tailed and the heavy-tailed regime. The drift zero case EX(1) = 0 plays a particular role, with Brownian or stable functional limits being a key tool. Further topics include studies of the first hitting time of b, central limit theorems and large deviations results for U, and a number of explicit calculations for Levy processes where the jump part is compound Poisson with phase-type jumps. (Less)
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Applied probability, Central limit theorem, Finite buffer problem, First, passage problem, Functional limit theorem, Heavy tails, Integro-differential equation, Ito's formula, Linear equations, Local, time, Loss rate, Martingale, Overflow, Phase-type distribution, Poisson's equation, Queueing theory, Siegmund duality, Skorokhod, problem, Storage process
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Lecture Notes in Mathematics
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2149
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67 - 182
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Springer
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0075-8434
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10.1007/978-3-319-23138-9_2
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  keywords     = {{Applied probability; Central limit theorem; Finite buffer problem; First; passage problem; Functional limit theorem; Heavy tails; Integro-differential equation; Ito's formula; Linear equations; Local; time; Loss rate; Martingale; Overflow; Phase-type distribution; Poisson's equation; Queueing theory; Siegmund duality; Skorokhod; problem; Storage process}},
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  title        = {{Levy Processes with Two-Sided Reflection}},
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  doi          = {{10.1007/978-3-319-23138-9_2}},
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