## The Annals of Probability

### On the absolute continuity of Lévy processes with drift

#### Abstract

We consider the problem of absolute continuity for the one-dimensional SDE

Xt=x+0ta(Xs) ds+Zt,

where Z is a real Lévy process without Brownian part and a a function of class with bounded derivative. Using an elementary stratification method, we show that if the drift a is monotonous at the initial point x, then Xt is absolutely continuous for every t>0 if and only if Z jumps infinitely often. This means that the drift term has a regularizing effect, since Zt itself may not have a density. We also prove that when Zt is absolutely continuous, then the same holds for Xt, in full generality on a and at every fixed time t. These results are then extended to a larger class of elliptic jump processes, yielding an optimal criterion on the driving Poisson measure for their absolute continuity.

#### Article information

Source
Ann. Probab., Volume 34, Number 3 (2006), 1035-1051.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 27 June 2006

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aop/1151418492

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/009117905000000620

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR2243878

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1099.60045

#### Citation

Nourdin, Ivan; Simon, Thomas. On the absolute continuity of Lévy processes with drift. Ann. Probab. 34 (2006), no. 3, 1035--1051. doi:10.1214/009117905000000620. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aop/1151418492

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