On differentiability and mass distributions of topologically typical multivariate Archimedean copulas

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author Dietrich, Nicolas
Trutschnig, Wolfgang
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Trutschnig, Wolfgang
contents Copulas, in particular Archimedean copulas are commonly viewed as analytically nice and regular objects. Motivated by a recently established result sta\-ting that the first partial derivatives of bivariate copulas can exhibit surprisingly pathological behavior, we focus on the class of $d$-dimensional Archimedean copulas denoted by $\mathcal{C}_{ar}^d$ and show that partial derivatives of order $(d-1)$ can be sur\-pri\-singly irregular as well. In fact, we prove the existence of Archimedean copulas $C \in \mathcal{C}_{ar}^d$ whose $(d-1)$-st order partial derivatives are pathological in the sense that for almost every $\mathbf{x} \in [0,1]^{d-1}$ the derivative $\partial_1...\partial_{d-1}C(\mathbf{x},y)$ does not exist on a dense set of $y \in (0,1)$. \\ Since the existence of mixed partial derivatives of order $(d-1)$ of a copula $C$ is closely related to the existence of a discrete component, we also study mass distributions of Archimedean copulas. Building upon the interplay between Archimedean copulas and so-called Williamson measures we show that absolute continuity, discreteness and singularity of the Williamson measure propagates to the associated Archimedean copula and vice versa. Moreover, we prove the fact that the sub-family of $\mathcal{C}_{ar}^d$ consisting of copulas whose absolutely continuous, discrete and singular component have full support is dense in $\mathcal{C}_{ar}^d$. \\ Finally, viewing $\mathcal{C}_{ar}^d$ in the light of Baire categories, we show that, in contrast to the space of bivariate copulas, a topologically typical $d$-dimensional Archimedean copula $C$ is not absolutely continuous but has degenerated discrete component, implying that pathological elements are rare in $\mathcal{C}_{ar}^d$.
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spellingShingle On differentiability and mass distributions of topologically typical multivariate Archimedean copulas
Dietrich, Nicolas
Trutschnig, Wolfgang
Probability
26A27, 26A30, 28A50, 54E52
Copulas, in particular Archimedean copulas are commonly viewed as analytically nice and regular objects. Motivated by a recently established result sta\-ting that the first partial derivatives of bivariate copulas can exhibit surprisingly pathological behavior, we focus on the class of $d$-dimensional Archimedean copulas denoted by $\mathcal{C}_{ar}^d$ and show that partial derivatives of order $(d-1)$ can be sur\-pri\-singly irregular as well. In fact, we prove the existence of Archimedean copulas $C \in \mathcal{C}_{ar}^d$ whose $(d-1)$-st order partial derivatives are pathological in the sense that for almost every $\mathbf{x} \in [0,1]^{d-1}$ the derivative $\partial_1...\partial_{d-1}C(\mathbf{x},y)$ does not exist on a dense set of $y \in (0,1)$. \\ Since the existence of mixed partial derivatives of order $(d-1)$ of a copula $C$ is closely related to the existence of a discrete component, we also study mass distributions of Archimedean copulas. Building upon the interplay between Archimedean copulas and so-called Williamson measures we show that absolute continuity, discreteness and singularity of the Williamson measure propagates to the associated Archimedean copula and vice versa. Moreover, we prove the fact that the sub-family of $\mathcal{C}_{ar}^d$ consisting of copulas whose absolutely continuous, discrete and singular component have full support is dense in $\mathcal{C}_{ar}^d$. \\ Finally, viewing $\mathcal{C}_{ar}^d$ in the light of Baire categories, we show that, in contrast to the space of bivariate copulas, a topologically typical $d$-dimensional Archimedean copula $C$ is not absolutely continuous but has degenerated discrete component, implying that pathological elements are rare in $\mathcal{C}_{ar}^d$.
title On differentiability and mass distributions of topologically typical multivariate Archimedean copulas
topic Probability
26A27, 26A30, 28A50, 54E52
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07113