Probability measures, Lévy measures and analyticity in time

Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen, Friedrich Hubalek

Published 2008-11-05Version 1

We investigate the relation of the semigroup probability density of an infinite activity L\'{e}vy process to the corresponding L\'{e}vy density. For subordinators, we provide three methods to compute the former from the latter. The first method is based on approximating compound Poisson distributions, the second method uses convolution integrals of the upper tail integral of the L\'{e}vy measure and the third method uses the analytic continuation of the L\'{e}vy density to a complex cone and contour integration. As a by-product, we investigate the smoothness of the semigroup density in time. Several concrete examples illustrate the three methods and our results.