By using a symbolic technique known in the literature as the classical umbral calculus, we characterize two classes of polynomials related to Lèvy processes: the Kailath-Segall and the time-space harmonic polynomials. We provide the Kailath-Segall formula in terms of cumulants and we recover simple closed-forms for several families of polynomials with respect to not centered Lèvy processes, such as the Hermite polynomials with the Brownian motion, the Poisson-Charlier polynomials with the Poisson processes, the actuarial polynomials with the Gamma processes, the first kind Meixner polynomials with the Pascal processes, the Bernoulli, Euler and Krawtchuk polynomials with suitable random walks.

On some applications of a symbolic representation of non-centered Lèvy processes

DI NARDO, Elvira;
2013-01-01

Abstract

By using a symbolic technique known in the literature as the classical umbral calculus, we characterize two classes of polynomials related to Lèvy processes: the Kailath-Segall and the time-space harmonic polynomials. We provide the Kailath-Segall formula in terms of cumulants and we recover simple closed-forms for several families of polynomials with respect to not centered Lèvy processes, such as the Hermite polynomials with the Brownian motion, the Poisson-Charlier polynomials with the Poisson processes, the actuarial polynomials with the Gamma processes, the first kind Meixner polynomials with the Pascal processes, the Bernoulli, Euler and Krawtchuk polynomials with suitable random walks.
2013
42
21
3974
3988
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03610926.2011.642920#.UnB8nvls-gY
Lèvy process; time-space harmonic polynomial; Kailath-Segall polynomial; cumulant; umbral calculus
E. DI NARDO; I. OLIVA
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