Convergence to equilibrium for time inhomogeneous jump diffusions with state dependent jump intensity

TL;DR

This paper studies the long-term behavior of a time-inhomogeneous jump process with state-dependent jump intensities, establishing conditions for convergence to a stationary limit and introducing a coupling method based on big jumps.

Contribution

It provides explicit conditions for convergence to equilibrium of inhomogeneous jump diffusions with state-dependent jumps and introduces a novel coupling method based on big jumps.

Findings

Conditions for convergence to a time homogeneous limit process.

A coupling method based on large jumps and regeneration.

Explicit convergence speed estimates for both processes.

Abstract

We consider a time inhomogeneous jump Markov process $X = (X_t)_t$ with state dependent jump intensity, taking values in $R^d . $ Its infinitesimal generator is given by \begin{multline*} L_t f (x) = \sum_{i=1}^d \frac{\partial f}{\partial x_i } (x) b^i ( t,x) - \sum_{ i =1}^d \frac{\partial f}{\partial x_i } (x) \int_{E_1} c_1^i ( t, z, x) \gamma_1 ( t, z, x ) \mu_1 (dz ) \\ + \sum_{l=1}^3 \int_{E_l} [ f ( x + c_l ( t, z, x)) - f(x)] \gamma_l ( t, z, x) \mu_l (dz ) , \end{multline*} where $(E_l , {\mathcal E}_l, \mu_l ) , 1 \le l \le 3, $ are sigma-finite measurable spaces describing three different jump regimes of the process (fast, intermediate, slow). We give conditions proving that the long time behavior of $X$ can be related to the one of a time homogeneous limit process $\bar X . $ Moreover, we introduce a coupling method for the limit process which is entirely based on certain of its big jumps and which relies on the regeneration method. We state explicit conditions in terms of the coefficients of the process allowing to control the speed of convergence to equilibrium both for $X$ and for $\bar X.$