Lévy processes and Lévy white noise as tempered distributions

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Abstract: We identify a necessary and sufficient condition for a L'evy white noise to be a tempered distribution. More precisely, we show that if the L'evy measure associated with this noise has a positive absolute moment, then the L'evy white noise almost surely takes values in the space of tempered distributions. If the L'evy measure does not have a positive absolute moment of any order, then the event on which the L'evy white noise is a tempered distribution has probability zero.


It is well known that a Gaussian white noise in \(\mathbb{R}^d\) is a generalized random field that can be seen as a random element of \(\mathcal{S}'(\mathbb{R}^d)\). An analogous result in the context of Lévy processes has been shown in [\textit{J. Fageot} et al., J. Fourier Anal. Appl. 20, No. 6, 1179--1211 (2014; Zbl 1306.60036)], provided the associated Lévy measure has finite absolute moment of some order. In the paper under review, the authors show that this condition is also necessary. More precisely, in the single-parameter case, they show that a Lévy white noise \(\dot{X}\) (corresponding to the Lévy process \(X\) and defined as \(\langle \dot{X}(\omega),\varphi \rangle:=-\int_{\mathbb{R}_+}X_t(\omega)\varphi'(t) dt\), \(\omega\in\Omega\), \(\varphi\in\mathcal{D}(\mathbb{R})\)) satisfies \(\dot{X}\in\mathcal{S}'(\mathbb{R})\) \(\mathbb{P}\)-a.s. if, and only if, the associated Lévy measure \(\nu\) satisfies \(\int_{\{|x|\geq1\}}|x|^\eta\nu(dx)<\infty\) for some \(\eta>0\). Analogously, in the multi-parameter case, they show that a Lévy white noise \(\dot{X}\) (corresponding to the \(d\)-parameter Lévy field \(X\) and defined as \(\langle \dot{X}(\omega),\varphi \rangle:=(-1)^d\int_{\mathbb{R}^d_+}X_t(\omega)\frac{\partial^d \varphi}{\partial t_1\cdots\partial t_d}(t) dt\), \(\omega\in\Omega\), \(\varphi\in\mathcal{D}(\mathbb{R}^d)\)) satisfies \(\dot{X}\in\mathcal{S}'(\mathbb{R}^d)\) \(\mathbb{P}\)-a.s. if, and only if, the associated Lévy measure \(\nu\) again satisfies \(\int_{\{|x|\geq1\}}|x|^\eta\nu(dx)<\infty\) for some \(\eta>0\).











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