Let
be a subfractional Brownian motion in
. We prove that
is strongly locally nondeterministic.
Sub-Fractional Brownian Motion Fractional Brownian Motion Self-Similar Gaussian Processes Strong Local Non-Determinism1. Introduction
The fractional Brownian motion (fBm for short) is the best known and most used process with long-dependence property for models in telecommunications, turbulence, image processing and finance. This process is first introduced by [1] and later studied by [2] . The self-similarity and stationarity of the increments are two main properties for which fBm enjoy success as a modeling tool. The fBm is the only continuous Gaussian process which is self-similar and has stationary increments; see [3] . Many authors have also proposed for using more general self-similar Gaussian processes and random fields as stochastic models; see e.g. [4] -[9] . Such applications have raised many interesting theoretical questions about self-similar Gaussian processes and fields in general. However, in contrast to the extensive studies on fractional Brownian motion, there has been little systematic investigation on other self-similar Gaussian processes until [10] fills the gap by developing systematic ways to study sample path properties of a class of self-similar Gaussian process, namely, the bifractional Brownian motion. Their main tools are the Lamperti transformation, which provides a powerful connection between self-similar processes and stationary processes; see [11] , and the strong local non-determinism of Gaussian processes; see [12] . In particular, for any self-similar Gaussian processes, the Lamperti transformation leads to a stochastic integal representation for X.
An extension of Bm which preserves many properties of the fBm, but not the stationarity of the increments, is so called sub-fractional Brownian motion (sub-fBm, in short) introduced by [13] . The sub-fBm is another class of self-similar Gaussian process which has properties analogous to those of fBm; see [13] -[15] . Given a constant, the sub-fractional Brownian motion in is a centered Gaussian process with covariance function
and.
Let be independent copies of. We define the Gaussian process with values in by
By (1), one can verify easily that is a self-similar process with index H, that is, for every constant,
where means that the two processes have the same finite dimensional distributions. Note that does not have stationary increments.
The strong local non-determinism is an important tool to study the sample path properties of self-similar Gaussian process, such as the small ball probability and Chung’s law of the iterated logarithm. In this paper, we apply the Lamperti transformation to prove the strong local non-determinism of. Throughout this paper, a specified positive and finite constant is denoted by which may depend on H.
2. Strong Local Non-Determinism
Theorem 1. For all constants, is strongly locally -nondeterministic on with. That is, there exist positive constants and such that for all and all,
Proof. By Lamperti’s transformation (see [11] ), we consider the centered stationary Gaussian process defined by
The covariance function is given by
where is an even function. By (6) and Taylor expansion, we verify that, as, where. It follows that. Also, by using (6) and the Taylor expansion again, we also have
Using Bochner’s theorem, has the following stochastic integral representation
where W is a complex Gaussian measure with control measure whose Fourier transform is. The measure is called the spectral measure of.
Since, the spectral measure of has a continuous density function which can be represented as the inverse Fourier transform of:
We would like to prove that f has the following asymptotic property
where is an explicit constant depending only on H.
In the following we give a direct proof of (10) by using (9) and an Abelian argument similar to that in the proof of Theorem 1 of [16] . Without loss of generality, we assume that. Applying integration-by-parts to (9), we get
with
We need to distinguish three cases:, and. In the first case, it can be verified from (12) that, hence, and
We will also make use of the properties of higher order derivatives of. It is elementary to compute and verify that, when, we have
and as which implies.
The behavior of the derivatives of is simpler when. (12) becomes
and
Hence, we have, , and both and are in.
When, it can be shown that (14) still holds, and as.
Now, we proceed to prove (10). First, we consider the case when. By a change of variable, we can write
Hence,
Let be a fixed constant. It follows from (13) and the dominated convergence theorem that
On the other hand, integration-by-parts yields
By Riemann-Lebesgue lemma,
Moreover, since by (13) and as, we have as. It follows that
Then for all large enough, we derive
Hence, we have
Combining (18), (19), and (24), we have
Then we see that, when, (10) holds with.
Secondly, we consider the case. Since is continuous and, (19) becomes
Using (20) and integration-by-parts again we derive
It follows from the (27), (16) and Riemann-Lebesgue lemma that
We see from the above and (17) that
This verifies that (10) holds when.
Finally we consider the case. Note that (19) and (24) are not useful anymore and we need to modify the above argument. By using integration-by-parts to (11) we obtain
Note that we have. Hence is integrable in the neighborhood of. Consequently, the proof for this case is very similar to the case of. From (30) and (14), we can verify that (10) holds as well and the constant is explicitly determined by H. Hence we have proved (10) in general.
It follows from (10) and Lemma 1 of [17] (see also [12] for more general results) that is strongly locally -nondeterministic on any interval with in the following sense: There exist positive constants and such that for all and all,
Now we prove the strong local nondeterminism of on I. To this end, note that for all. We choose. Then for all with we have
Hence, it follows from (31) and (32) that for all and,
where. This proves Theorem 1.
Funding
Supported by NSFC (No. 11201068) and “The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities” in UIBE (No. 14YQ07).
Cite this paper
NanaLuan, (2015) Strong Local Non-Determinism of Sub-Fractional Brownian Motion. Applied Mathematics,06,2211-2216. doi: 10.4236/am.2015.613194
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