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A. Maheshwari

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arXiv2019

Integro-differential equations linked to compound birth processes with infinitely divisible addends

Stochastic modelling of fatigue (and other material's deterioration), as well as of cumulative damage in risk theory, are often based on compound sums of independent random variables, where the number of addends is represented by an independent counting process. We consider here a cumulative model where, instead of a renewal process (as in the Poisson case), a linear birth (or Yule) process is used. This corresponds to the assumption that the frequency of \textquotedblleft damage" increments accelerates according to the increasing number of \textquotedblleft damages". We start from the partial differential equation satisfied by its transition density, in the case of exponentially distributed addends, and then we generalize it by introducing a space-derivative of convolution type (i.e. defined in terms of the Laplace exponent of a subordinator). Then we are concerned with the solution of integro-differential equations, which, in particular cases, reduce to fractional ones. Correspondingly, we analyze the related cumulative jump processes under a general infinitely divisible distribution of the (positive) jumps. Some special cases (such as the stable, tempered stable, gamma and Poisson) are presented.

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arXiv2019

Superposition of time-changed Poisson processes and their hitting times

The Poisson process of order $i$ is a weighted sum of independent Poisson processes and is used to model the flow of clients in different services. In the paper below we study some extensions of this process, for different forms of the weights and also with the time-changed versions, with Bern\v stein subordinator playing the role of time. We focus on the analysis of hitting times of these processes obtaining sometimes explicit distributions. Since all the processes examined display a similar structure with multiple upward jumps sometimes they can skip all states with positive probability even on infinitely long time span.

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arXiv2018

Time-changed Poisson processes of order $k$

In this article, we study the Poisson process of order k (PPoK) time-changed with an independent Lévy subordinator and its inverse, which we call respectively, as TCPPoK-I and TCPPoK-II, through various distributional properties, long-range dependence and limit theorems for the PPoK and the TCPPoK-I. Further, we study the governing difference-differential equations of the TCPPoK-I for the case inverse Gaussian subordinator. Similarly, we study the distributional properties, asymptotic moments and the governing difference-differential equation of TCPPoK-II. As an application to ruin theory, we give a governing differential equation of ruin probability in insurance ruin using these processes. Finally, we present some simulated sample paths of both the processes.

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arXiv2017

Some Time-changed fractional Poisson processes

In this paper, we study the fractional Poisson process (FPP) time-changed by an independent Lévy subordinator and the inverse of the Lévy subordinator, which we call TCFPP-I and TCFPP-II, respectively. Various distributional properties of these processes are established. We show that, under certain conditions, the TCFPP-I has the long-range dependence property and also its law of iterated logarithm is proved. It is shown that the TCFPP-II is a renewal process and its waiting time distribution is identified. Its bivariate distributions and also the governing difference-differential equation are derived. Some specific examples for both the processes are discussed. Finally, we present the simulations of the sample paths of these processes.

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arXiv2017

Non-homogeneous space-time fractional Poisson processes

The space-time fractional Poisson process (STFPP), defined by Orsingher and Poilto in \cite{sfpp}, is a generalization of the time fractional Poisson process (TFPP) and the space fractional Poisson process (SFPP). We study the fractional generalization of the non-homogeneous Poisson process and call it the non-homogeneous space-time fractional Poisson process (NSTFPP). We compute their {\it pmf} and generating function and investigate the associated differential equation. The limit theorems and the law of iterated logarithm for the NSTFPP process are studied. We study the distributional properties, the asymptotic expansion of the correlation function of the non-homogeneous time fractional Poisson process (NTFPP) and subsequently investigate the long-range dependence (LRD) property of a special NTFPP. We investigate the limit theorem and the LRD property for the fractional non-homogeneous Poisson process (FNPP), studied by Leonenko et. al. (2016). Finally, we present some simulated sample paths of the NSTFPP process.

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arXiv2016

On the Long-range Dependence of Fractional Poisson and Negative Binomial Processes

We study the long-range dependence (LRD) of the increments of the fractional Poisson process (FPP), the fractional negative binomial process (FNBP) and the increments of the FNBP. We first point out an error in the proof of Theorem 1 of Biard and Saussereau (2014) and prove that the increments of the FPP has indeed the short-range dependence (SRD) property, when the fractional index $β$ satisfies $0<β<\frac{1}{3}$. We also establish that the FNBP has the LRD property, while the increments of the FNBP possesses the SRD property.

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arXiv2014

Fractional Negative Binomial and Polya Processes

In this paper, we define a fractional negative binomial process (FNBP) by replacing the Poisson process by a fractional Poisson process (FPP) in the gamma subordinated form of the negative binomial process. First, it is shown that the one-dimensional distributions of the FPP are not infinitely divisible. The long-range dependence of the FNBP, the short-range dependence of its increments and the infinite divisibility of the FPP and the FNBP are investigated. Also, the space fractional Polya process (SFPP) is defined by replacing the rate parameter $λ$ by a gamma random variable in the definition of the space fractional Poisson process. The properties of the FNBP and the SFPP and the connections to $pde$'$s$ governing the density of the FNBP and the SFPP are also investigated.

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arXiv2008

NAPX: A Polynomial Time Approximation Scheme for the Noah's Ark Problem

The Noah's Ark Problem (NAP) is an NP-Hard optimization problem with relevance to ecological conservation management. It asks to maximize the phylogenetic diversity (PD) of a set of taxa given a fixed budget, where each taxon is associated with a cost of conservation and a probability of extinction. NAP has received renewed interest with the rise in availability of genetic sequence data, allowing PD to be used as a practical measure of biodiversity. However, only simplified instances of the problem, where one or more parameters are fixed as constants, have as of yet been addressed in the literature. We present NAPX, the first algorithm for the general version of NAP that returns a $1 - ε$ approximation of the optimal solution. It runs in $O(\frac{n B^2 h^2 \log^2n}{\log^2(1 - ε)})$ time where $n$ is the number of species, and $B$ is the total budget and $h$ is the height of the input tree. We also provide improved bounds for its expected running time.

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