On Portenko's approximation of skew Brownian motion

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Auteurs principaux: Bobrowski, Adam, Pilipenko, Andrey
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author Bobrowski, Adam
Pilipenko, Andrey
author_facet Bobrowski, Adam
Pilipenko, Andrey
contents From the perspective of the theory of operator semigroups, we reflect back on the classical theorem of Portenko devoted to approximation of skew Brownian motion. The theorem says that by concentrating the power of drift of a diffusion process around a point one obtains an equivalent of a semi-permeable membrane at this point, described by skew Brownian motion's boundary condition. We prove convergence of the corresponding Feller semigroups and in doing so, generalize Portenko's theorem to the case of the Walsh processes on star graphs. Our analysis leads through singular perturbations of Sturm--Liouville equations, and reveals that as a result of Portenko-type approximation parameters of Walsh processes are transformed in a simple and elegant manner.
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spellingShingle On Portenko's approximation of skew Brownian motion
Bobrowski, Adam
Pilipenko, Andrey
Probability
47D06, 47D07 60J60, 60J50, 60J35
From the perspective of the theory of operator semigroups, we reflect back on the classical theorem of Portenko devoted to approximation of skew Brownian motion. The theorem says that by concentrating the power of drift of a diffusion process around a point one obtains an equivalent of a semi-permeable membrane at this point, described by skew Brownian motion's boundary condition. We prove convergence of the corresponding Feller semigroups and in doing so, generalize Portenko's theorem to the case of the Walsh processes on star graphs. Our analysis leads through singular perturbations of Sturm--Liouville equations, and reveals that as a result of Portenko-type approximation parameters of Walsh processes are transformed in a simple and elegant manner.
title On Portenko's approximation of skew Brownian motion
topic Probability
47D06, 47D07 60J60, 60J50, 60J35
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20440