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On maximum increase and decrease of Brownian motion. (English) Zbl 1173.60338

Summary: The joint distribution of maximum increase and decrease for Brownian motion up to an independent exponential time is computed. This is achieved by decomposing the Brownian path at the hitting times of the infimum and the supremum before the exponential time. It is seen that an important element in our formula is the distribution of the maximum decrease for the three-dimensional Bessel process with drift started from 0 and stopped at the first hitting of a given level. From the joint distribution of the maximum increase and decrease it is possible to calculate the correlation coefficient between these at a fixed time and this is seen to be \(-0.47936\dots\).

MSC:

60J65 Brownian motion
60J60 Diffusion processes
60G17 Sample path properties
62P05 Applications of statistics to actuarial sciences and financial mathematics