On the law of killed exponential functionals

Infinitely divisible distributions; stable distributions (60E07) Characteristic functions; other transforms (60E10) Processes with independent increments; Lévy processes (60G51) Transition functions, generators and resolvents (60J35)

Abstract: For two independent L'{e}vy processes

x i

and

e t a

and an exponentially distributed random variable

a u

with parameter

q > 0

that is independent of

x i

and

e t a

, the killed exponential functional is given by

V_{q, x i, e t a} := i n t_{0}^{a} u m a t h r m e^{- x i_{s -}}, m a t h r m d e t a_{s}

. With the killed exponential functional arising as the stationary distribution of a Markov process, we calculate the infinitesimal generator of the process and use it to derive different distributional equations describing the law of

V_{q, x i, e t a}

, as well as functional equations for its Lebesgue density in the absolutely continuous case. Various special cases and examples are considered, yielding more explicit information on the law of the killed exponential functional and illustrating the applications of the equations obtained. Interpreting the case

q = 0

as

a u = i n f t y

leads to the classical exponential functional

i n t_{0}^{i} n f t y m a t h r m e^{- x i_{s -}}, m a t h r m d e t a_{s}

, allowing to extend many previous results to include killing.

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