Abstract
The goal is to identify the class of distributions to which the distribution of the maximum of a Lévy process with no negative jumps and negative mean (equivalently, the stationary distribution of the reflected process) belongs. An explicit new distributional identity is obtained for the case where the Lévy process is an independent sum of a Brownian motion and a general subordinator (nondecreasing Lévy process) in terms of a geometrically distributed sum of independent random variables. This generalizes both the distributional form of the standard Pollaczek-Khinchine formula for the stationary workload distribution in the M/G/1 queue and the exponential stationary distribution of a reflected Brownian motion.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 883-887 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Journal of Applied Probability |
Volume | 49 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 2012 |
Keywords
- Generalized Pollaczek-Khinchine formula
- Lévy process with no negative jumps
- Reflected Lévy process
- Spectrally positive Lévy process
- Supremum of a Lévy process