Some examples on unimodality of Lévy processes (Q1330235)

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Some examples on unimodality of Lévy processes
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    Some examples on unimodality of Lévy processes (English)
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    3 January 1995
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    A stationary process \((X_ t)_{t\geq 0}\) with independent increments is called unimodal if for each \(t>0\) the distribution of \(X_ t\) is unimodal. The present paper contains certain counterexamples to open problems of \textit{K. Sato} (1992), on unimodality and mode behavior of Lévy processes. For instance, the author shows that there exists an increasing Lévy process \((X_ t)_{t\geq 0}\) which is not unimodal so that \((X_ t+ \sigma B_ t )_{t\geq 0}\) is unimodal for some \(\sigma>0\), where \((B_ t )_{t\geq 0}\) is a Brownian motion independent of \((X_ t )_{t\geq 0}\).
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    stationary process
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    unimodality
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    mode behavior
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    Lévy processes
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    Brownian motion
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