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Reflecting Brownian Motion
In probability theory, reflected Brownian motion (or regulated Brownian motion, both with the acronym RBM) is a Wiener process in a space with reflecting boundaries. In the Physics, physical literature, this process describes diffusion in a confined space and it is often called confined Brownian motion. For example it can describe the motion of hard spheres in water confined between two walls. RBMs have been shown to describe queueing models experiencing heavy traffic approximation, heavy traffic as first proposed by John Kingman, Kingman and proven by Iglehart and Ward Whitt, Whitt. Definition A ''d''–dimensional reflected Brownian motion ''Z'' is a stochastic process on \mathbb R^d_+ uniquely defined by * a ''d''–dimensional drift vector ''μ'' * a ''d''×''d'' non-singular covariance matrix ''Σ'' and * a ''d''×''d'' reflection matrix ''R''. where ''X''(''t'') is an unconstrained Brownian motion with drift ''μ'' and variance ''Σ'', and ::Z(t) = X(t) + R Y(t) with ''Y' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Probability Theory
Probability theory or probability calculus is the branch of mathematics concerned with probability. Although there are several different probability interpretations, probability theory treats the concept in a rigorous mathematical manner by expressing it through a set of axioms of probability, axioms. Typically these axioms formalise probability in terms of a probability space, which assigns a measure (mathematics), measure taking values between 0 and 1, termed the probability measure, to a set of outcomes called the sample space. Any specified subset of the sample space is called an event (probability theory), event. Central subjects in probability theory include discrete and continuous random variables, probability distributions, and stochastic processes (which provide mathematical abstractions of determinism, non-deterministic or uncertain processes or measured Quantity, quantities that may either be single occurrences or evolve over time in a random fashion). Although it is no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
