TY - INPR A1 - Klein, Markus A1 - Léonard, Christian A1 - Rosenberger, Elke T1 - Agmon-type estimates for a class of jump processes N2 - In the limit we analyze the generators of families of reversible jump processes in the n-dimensional space associated with a class of symmetric non-local Dirichlet forms and show exponential decay of the eigenfunctions. The exponential rate function is a Finsler distance, given as solution of certain eikonal equation. Fine results are sensitive to the rate functions being twice differentiable or just Lipschitz. Our estimates are similar to the semiclassical Agmon estimates for differential operators of second order. They generalize and strengthen previous results on the lattice. T3 - Preprints des Instituts für Mathematik der Universität Potsdam - 1 (2012) 6 KW - finsler distance KW - decay of eigenfunctions KW - jump process KW - Dirichlet form Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-56995 ER - TY - INPR A1 - Klein, Markus A1 - Rosenberger, Elke T1 - Tunneling for a class of difference operators N2 - We analyze a general class of difference operators containing a multi-well potential and a small parameter. We decouple the wells by introducing certain Dirichlet operators on regions containing only one potential well, and we treat the eigenvalue problem as a small perturbation of these comparison problems. We describe tunneling by a certain interaction matrix similar to the analysis for the Schrödinger operator, and estimate the remainder, which is exponentially small and roughly quadratic compared with the interaction matrix. T3 - Preprints des Instituts für Mathematik der Universität Potsdam - 1 (2012) 5 KW - semi-classical difference operator KW - tunneling KW - interaction matrix Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-56989 ER - TY - INPR A1 - Keller, Peter A1 - Roelly, Sylvie A1 - Valleriani, Angelo T1 - On time duality for quasi-birth-and-death processes N2 - We say that (weak/strong) time duality holds for continuous time quasi-birth-and-death-processes if, starting from a fixed level, the first hitting time of the next upper level and the first hitting time of the next lower level have the same distribution. We present here a criterion for time duality in the case where transitions from one level to another have to pass through a given single state, the so-called bottleneck property. We also prove that a weaker form of reversibility called balanced under permutation is sufficient for the time duality to hold. We then discuss the general case. T3 - Preprints des Instituts für Mathematik der Universität Potsdam - 1 (2012) 4 KW - continuous time Markov chain KW - hitting times KW - time duality KW - absorbing boundary Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-56973 ER - TY - INPR A1 - Tarkhanov, Nikolai Nikolaevich A1 - Wallenta, Daniel T1 - The Lefschetz number of sequences of trace class curvature N2 - For a sequence of Hilbert spaces and continuous linear operators the curvature is defined to be the composition of any two consecutive operators. This is modeled on the de Rham resolution of a connection on a module over an algebra. Of particular interest are those sequences for which the curvature is "small" at each step, e.g., belongs to a fixed operator ideal. In this context we elaborate the theory of Fredholm sequences and show how to introduce the Lefschetz number. T3 - Preprints des Instituts für Mathematik der Universität Potsdam - 1 (2012) 3 KW - Perturbed complexes KW - curvature KW - Lefschetz number Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-56969 ER - TY - INPR A1 - Kiselev, Oleg M. A1 - Tarkhanov, Nikolai Nikolaevich T1 - Scattering of autoresonance trajectories upon a separatrix N2 - We study asymptotic properties of solutions to the primary resonance equation with large amplitude on a long time interval. T3 - Preprints des Instituts für Mathematik der Universität Potsdam - 1 (2012) 2 Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-56880 ER - TY - INPR A1 - Blanchard, Gilles A1 - Delattre, Sylvain A1 - Roquain, Étienne T1 - Testing over a continuum of null hypotheses N2 - We introduce a theoretical framework for performing statistical hypothesis testing simultaneously over a fairly general, possibly uncountably infinite, set of null hypotheses. This extends the standard statistical setting for multiple hypotheses testing, which is restricted to a finite set. This work is motivated by numerous modern applications where the observed signal is modeled by a stochastic process over a continuum. As a measure of type I error, we extend the concept of false discovery rate (FDR) to this setting. The FDR is defined as the average ratio of the measure of two random sets, so that its study presents some challenge and is of some intrinsic mathematical interest. Our main result shows how to use the p-value process to control the FDR at a nominal level, either under arbitrary dependence of p-values, or under the assumption that the finite dimensional distributions of the p-value process have positive correlations of a specific type (weak PRDS). Both cases generalize existing results established in the finite setting, the latter one leading to a less conservative procedure. The interest of this approach is demonstrated in several non-parametric examples: testing the mean/signal in a Gaussian white noise model, testing the intensity of a Poisson process and testing the c.d.f. of i.i.d. random variables. Conceptually, an interesting feature of the setting advocated here is that it focuses directly on the intrinsic hypothesis space associated with a testing model on a random process, without referring to an arbitrary discretization. T3 - Preprints des Instituts für Mathematik der Universität Potsdam - 1 (2012) 1 Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-56877 ER -