November 2023 Reflecting Brownian motion in generalized parabolic domains: Explosion and superdiffusivity
Mikhail V. Menshikov, Aleksandar Mijatović, Andrew R. Wade
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Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Probab. Statist. 59(4): 1813-1843 (November 2023). DOI: 10.1214/22-AIHP1309

Abstract

For a multidimensional driftless diffusion in an unbounded, smooth, sub-linear generalized parabolic domain, with oblique reflection from the boundary, we give natural conditions under which either explosion occurs, if the domain narrows sufficiently fast at infinity, or else there is superdiffusive transience, which we quantify with a strong law of large numbers. For example, in the case of a planar domain, explosion occurs if and only if the area of the domain is finite. We develop and apply novel semimartingale criteria for studying explosions and establishing strong laws, which are of independent interest.

Pour une diffusion multidimensionnelle sans dérive dans un domaine parabolique généralisé non borné, lisse, sous-linéaire, avec réflexion oblique à partir de la frontière, on donne des conditions naturelles dans lesquelles soit l’explosion se produit, si le domaine se rétrécit suffisamment vite envers l’infini, soit il y a la transience superdiffusive, que nous quantifions avec une loi forte des grands nombres. Par exemple, dans le cas d’un domaine planaire, l’explosion se produit si et seulement si la surface du domaine est finie. Nous développons et appliquons de nouveaux critères de semimartingale pour étudier les explosions et établir des lois fortes, qui présentent un intérêt indépendant.

Funding Statement

AM was supported by EPSRC grants EP/V009478/1 and EP/P003818/1, the Turing Fellowship funded by the Programme on Data-Centric Engineering of Lloyd’s Register Foundation, and by The Alan Turing Institute under the EPSRC grant EP/N510129/1.

Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful to an anonymous referee for a careful reading of the first version of the paper.

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Mikhail V. Menshikov. Aleksandar Mijatović. Andrew R. Wade. "Reflecting Brownian motion in generalized parabolic domains: Explosion and superdiffusivity." Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Probab. Statist. 59 (4) 1813 - 1843, November 2023. https://doi.org/10.1214/22-AIHP1309

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Received: 25 March 2022; Revised: 2 August 2022; Accepted: 26 August 2022; Published: November 2023
First available in Project Euclid: 3 November 2023

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/22-AIHP1309

Subjects:
Primary: 60J60
Secondary: 60F15 , 60J55 , 60J65 , 60K50

Keywords: Anomalous diffusion , explosion , Horn-shaped domain , Law of Large Numbers , Oblique reflection , Reflected diffusion , Semimartingale criteria , transience

Rights: Copyright © 2023 Association des Publications de l’Institut Henri Poincaré

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