Mean exit time and escape probability for dynamical systems driven by Levy noise

Details Mean exit time and escape probability for dynamical systems driven by Levy noise Mean exit time and escape probability for dynamical systems driven by Levy noise

2012-01-29

arxiv.org/abs/1201.6015v1

Mathematics

Numerical Analysis

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The mean first exit time and escape probability are utilized to quantify dynamical behaviors of stochastic differential equations with non-Gaussian alpha-stable type Levy motions. Both deterministic quantities are characterized by differential-integral equations(i.e.,differential equations with non local terms) but with different exterior conditions. The non-Gaussianity of noises manifests as nonlocality at the level of mean exit time and escape probability. An objective of this paper is to make mean exit time and escape probability as efficient computational tools, to the applied probability community, for quantifying stochastic dynamics. An accurate numerical scheme is developed and validated for computing the mean exit time and escape probability. Asymptotic solution for the mean exit time is given when the pure jump measure in the Levy motion is small. From both the analytical and numerical results, it is observed that the mean exit time depends strongly on the domain size and the value of alpha in the alpha-stable Levy jump measure. The mean exit time can measure which of the two competing factors in alpha-stable Levy motion, i.e. the jump frequency or the jump size, is dominant in helping a process exit a bounded domain. The escape probability is shown to vary with the underlying vector field(i.e.,drift). The mean exit time and escape probability could become discontinuous at the boundary of the domain, when the process is subject to certain deterministic potential and the value of alpha is in (0,1).

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