Sample path properties of self-similar processes with stationary increments (Q760709)

A real-valued process \(X=(X(t))_{t\in {\mathbb{R}}}\) is self-similar with exponent H (H-ss), if \(X(a\cdot)=_ da^ HX\) for all \(a>0\). Sample path properties of H-ss processes with stationary increments are investigated. The main result is that the sample paths have nowhere bounded variation if \(0<H\leq 1\), unless X(t)\(\equiv tX(1)\) and \(H=1\), and apart from this can have locally bounded variation only for \(H>1\), in which case they are singular. However, nowhere bounded variation may occur also for \(H>1.\) Examples exhibiting this combination of properties are constructed, as well as many others. Most are obtained by subordination of random measures to point processes in \({\mathbb{R}}^ 2\) that are Poincaré, i.e., invariant in distribution for the transformations \((t,x)\mapsto (at+b,ax)\) of \({\mathbb{R}}^ 2\). In a final section it is shown that the self-similarity and stationary increment properties are preserved under composition of independent processes: \(X_ 1\circ X_ 2=(X_ 1(X_ 2(t)))_{t\in {\mathbb{R}}}\). Some interesting examples are obtained this way.