Some remarks on the Rayleigh process
- 1 June 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Applied Probability
- Vol. 23 (02) , 398-408
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021900200029697
Abstract
The transition p.d.f. for a one-dimensional Rayleigh process in the presence of an absorption condition or a zero-flux condition in the origin is obtained in closed form. The first-passage-time problem through an arbitrary constant boundary is then considered and the moment-generating function is determined. In some particular cases the first-passage-time p.d.f. is explicitly derived. Use of some of these results is finally made to obtain the transition p.d.f. of the affine drift-linear infinitesimal-variance diffusion process when the origin is an entrance or a regular boundary in the presence of a reflection condition.Keywords
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