A Ciesielski-Taylor type identity for positive self-similar Markov processes

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Abstract: The aim of this note is to give a straightforward proof of a general version of the Ciesielski-Taylor identity for positive self-similar Markov processes of the spectrally negative type which umbrellas all previously known Ciesielski-Taylor identities within the latter class. The approach makes use of three fundamental features. Firstly a new transformation which maps a subset of the family of Laplace exponents of spectrally negative L'evy processes into itself. Secondly some classical features of fluctuation theory for spectrally negative L'evy processes as well as more recent fluctuation identities for positive self-similar Markov processes.


Let \(Q^{(\nu)}\) be the law of the \(\nu\)-dimensional Bessel process starting at \(0\), where \(\nu>0\). Given a stochastic process \(\{X_t: t\geq 0\}\) and \(a>0\), let \(T_a=\inf\{s\geq 0: X_s=a\}\) and \(L_a=\int_{0}^{\infty} 1_{X_s\leq a}\,ds\). The Ciesielski-Taylor identity states that the law of \(T_a\) under \(Q^{(\nu)}\) is the same as the law of \(L_a\) under \(Q^{(\nu+2)}\). The aim of this paper is to provide a general version of the Ciesielski-Taylor identity for positive self-similar Markov processes of the spectrally negative type. The main result includes many previously known identities of the Ciesielski-Taylor type. Let \(\xi=\{\xi_t: t\geq 0\}\) be a spectrally negative Lévy process (with or without killing) with Laplace exponent \(\psi(u)=\log \operatorname{E} e^{u\xi_1}\). The authors show that \(\mathcal T_\beta\psi(u)=\frac{u}{u+\beta} \psi(u+\beta)\) is a Laplace exponent of another spectrally negative Lévy process for every \(\beta>0\). For a Lévy process \(\xi\) with Laplace exponent \(\psi\), denote by \(P_{\psi}\) the law of the positive self-similar Markov process starting at \(0\) which corresponds to \(\xi\) via the Lamperti transformation. The main result of the paper states that the law of \(T_a\) under \(P_{\psi}\) coincides with the law of \(L_a\) under \(P_{\mathcal T_{\alpha} \psi}\) for every \(\alpha>0\) such that \(\psi(\alpha)>0\). Moreover, the authors show that both random variables are self-decomposable and provide an explicit formula for their Laplace transform.



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