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Zap. Nauchn. Sem. POMI, 2015 Volume 441, Pages 154–162 (Mi znsl6231)

On convex hull and winding number of self-similar processes

Yu. Davydov

University Lille 1, CNRS, UMR 8524, Laboratory P. Painlevé, France

Abstract: It is well known that for a standard Brownian motion (BM) $\{B(t),\ t\geq0\}$ with values in $\mathbf R^d$, its convex hull $V(t)=\mathrm{conv}\{B(s),\ s\leq t\}$ with probability $1$ for each $t>0$ contains $0$ as an interior point (see Evans [3]). We also know that the winding number of a typical path of a two-dimensional BM is equal to $+\infty$. The aim of this article is to show that these properties aren't specifically “Brownian”, but hold for a much larger class of $d$-dimensional self-similar processes. This class contains in particular $d$-dimensional fractional Brownian motions and (concerning convex hulls) strictly stable Lévy processes.

Key words and phrases: Brownian motion, multi-dimensional fractional Brownian motion, stable Lévy processes, convex hull, winding number.

UDC: 519

Received: 30.10.2015

Language: English


 English version:
Journal of Mathematical Sciences (New York), 2016, 219:5, 707–713

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