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Sticky Brownian motion as the limit of storage processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

J. Michael Harrison  and
Austin J. Lemoine
J. Michael Harrison*
Affiliation:
Stanford University
Austin J. Lemoine*
Affiliation:
Systems Control, Inc.
*
∗Postal address: Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, U.S.A.
∗∗Postal address: Systems Control Inc., 1801 Page Mill Rd., Palo Alto, CA 94304, U.S.A.
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Abstract

The paper considers a modified storage process with state space [0,∞). Away from the origin, W behaves like an ordinary storage process with constant release rate and finite jump intensity A. In state 0, however, the jump intensity falls to It is shown that W can be obtained by applying first a reflection mapping and then a random change of time scale to a compound Poisson process with drift. When these same two transformations are applied to Brownian motion, one obtains sticky (or slowly reflected) Brownian motion W∗ on [0,∞). Thus W∗ is the natural diffusion approximation for W, and it is shown that W converges in distribution to W∗ under appropriate conditions. The boundary behavior of W∗ is discussed, its infinitesimal generator is calculated and its stationary distribution (which has an atom at the origin) is computed.

Keywords

STORAGE PROCESSESBROWNIAN MOTIONREFLECTING BARRIERSDIFFUSION PROCESSESSTICKY BROWNIAN MOTIONLIMIT THEOREM
Type
Research Papers
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , March 1981 , pp. 216 - 226
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 

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