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One-sided excursions of brownian motion, and an application

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

J. P. Imhof
J. P. Imhof*
Affiliation:
University of Geneva
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Abstract

The value of a process on C[0,∞) when it starts its first one-sided excursion of width ≧ α is related to first hitting one of two boundaries. Explicit results for brownian motion are applied to a finite dam model.

Keywords

BROWNIAN MOTIONFIRST PASSAGEFINITE DAM
Type
Short Communications
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , September 1978 , pp. 635 - 638
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1978 

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