Time between the maximum and the minimum of a stochastic process

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.123.200201arXiv1909.05594WikidataQ91754213 ScholiaQ91754213MaRDI QIDQ6325169FDOQ6325169

Grégory Schehr, Satya N. Majumdar, Francesco Mori

Publication date: 12 September 2019

Abstract: We present an exact solution for the probability density function $P(au=t_{min}-t_{max}|T)$ of the time-difference between the minimum and the maximum of a one-dimensional Brownian motion of duration $T$. We then generalise our results to a Brownian bridge, i.e. a periodic Brownian motion of period $T$. We demonstrate that these results can be directly applied to study the position-difference between the minimal and the maximal height of a fluctuating $(1+1)$-dimensional Kardar-Parisi-Zhang interface on a substrate of size $L$, in its stationary state. We show that the Brownian motion result is universal and, asymptotically, holds for any discrete-time random walk with a finite jump variance. We also compute this distribution numerically for L'evy flights and find that it differs from the Brownian motion result.

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