An operational calculus for probability distributions via Laplace transforms

Author:

Abate Joseph,Whitt Ward

Abstract

In this paper we investigate operators that map one or more probability distributions on the positive real line into another via their Laplace–Stieltjes transforms. Our goal is to make it easier to construct new transforms by manipulating known transforms. We envision the results here assisting modelling in conjunction with numerical transform inversion software. We primarily focus on operators related to infinitely divisible distributions and Lévy processes, drawing upon Feller (1971). We give many concrete examples of infinitely divisible distributions. We consider a cumulant-moment-transfer operator that allows us to relate the cumulants of one distribution to the moments of another. We consider a power-mixture operator corresponding to an independently stopped Lévy process. The special case of exponential power mixtures is a continuous analog of geometric random sums. We introduce a further special case which is remarkably tractable, exponential mixtures of inverse Gaussian distributions (EMIGs). EMIGs arise naturally as approximations for busy periods in queues. We show that the steady-state waiting time in an M/G/1 queue is the difference of two EMIGs when the service-time distribution is an EMIG. We consider several transforms related to first-passage times, e.g. for the M/M/1 queue, reflected Brownian motion and Lévy processes. Some of the associated probability density functions involve Bessel functions and theta functions. We describe properties of the operators, including how they transform moments.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

Applied Mathematics,Statistics and Probability

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