Exit times in non-Markovian drifting continuous-time random-walk processes

By appealing to renewal theory we determine the equations that the mean exit time of a continuous-time random walk with drift satisfies both when the present coincides with a jump instant or when it does not. Particular attention is paid to the corrections ensuing from the non-Markovian nature of th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Montero Torralbo, Miquel, Villarroel, Javier
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/34150
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/34150
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Rutes aleatòries (Matemàtica)
Processos estocàstics
Equacions integrals estocàstiques
Random walks (Mathematics)
Stochastic processes
Stochastic integral equations
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Sumario:By appealing to renewal theory we determine the equations that the mean exit time of a continuous-time random walk with drift satisfies both when the present coincides with a jump instant or when it does not. Particular attention is paid to the corrections ensuing from the non-Markovian nature of the process. We show that when drift and jumps have the same sign the relevant integral equations can be solved in closed form. The case when holding times have the classical Erlang distribution is considered in detail.