On the Self-Similarity of Remainder Processes and the Relationship Between Stable and Dickman Distributions

A common approach to simulating a Lévy process is to truncate its shot-noise representation. We focus on subordinators and introduce the remainder process, which represents the jumps that are removed by the truncation. We characterize when these processes are self-similar and show that, in the self-...

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Main Author: Michael Grabchak
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description A common approach to simulating a Lévy process is to truncate its shot-noise representation. We focus on subordinators and introduce the remainder process, which represents the jumps that are removed by the truncation. We characterize when these processes are self-similar and show that, in the self-similar case, they can be indexed by a parameter <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>α</mi><mo>∈</mo><mo>(</mo><mo>−</mo><mo>∞</mo><mo>,</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>)</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>. When <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>α</mi><mo>∈</mo><mo>(</mo><mn>0</mn><mo>,</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>)</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, they correspond to <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>α</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula>-stable distributions, and when <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>α</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>0</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, they correspond to certain generalizations of the Dickman distribution. Thus, the Dickman distribution plays the role of a 0-stable distribution in this context.
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spelling doaj-art-0693a96fea064470a454c6bbf89c3f002025-08-20T01:48:53ZengMDPI AGMathematics2227-73902025-03-0113690710.3390/math13060907On the Self-Similarity of Remainder Processes and the Relationship Between Stable and Dickman DistributionsMichael Grabchak0Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223, USAA common approach to simulating a Lévy process is to truncate its shot-noise representation. We focus on subordinators and introduce the remainder process, which represents the jumps that are removed by the truncation. We characterize when these processes are self-similar and show that, in the self-similar case, they can be indexed by a parameter <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>α</mi><mo>∈</mo><mo>(</mo><mo>−</mo><mo>∞</mo><mo>,</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>)</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>. When <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>α</mi><mo>∈</mo><mo>(</mo><mn>0</mn><mo>,</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>)</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, they correspond to <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>α</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula>-stable distributions, and when <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>α</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>0</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, they correspond to certain generalizations of the Dickman distribution. Thus, the Dickman distribution plays the role of a 0-stable distribution in this context.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/13/6/907Lévy processesstable distributionsDickman distributionshot-noise representationself-similar processes
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On the Self-Similarity of Remainder Processes and the Relationship Between Stable and Dickman Distributions
Mathematics
Lévy processes
stable distributions
Dickman distribution
shot-noise representation
self-similar processes
title On the Self-Similarity of Remainder Processes and the Relationship Between Stable and Dickman Distributions
title_full On the Self-Similarity of Remainder Processes and the Relationship Between Stable and Dickman Distributions
title_fullStr On the Self-Similarity of Remainder Processes and the Relationship Between Stable and Dickman Distributions
title_full_unstemmed On the Self-Similarity of Remainder Processes and the Relationship Between Stable and Dickman Distributions
title_short On the Self-Similarity of Remainder Processes and the Relationship Between Stable and Dickman Distributions
title_sort on the self similarity of remainder processes and the relationship between stable and dickman distributions
topic Lévy processes
stable distributions
Dickman distribution
shot-noise representation
self-similar processes
url https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/13/6/907
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