Some Diffusion Processes Associated With Two Parameter Poisson-Dirichlet Distribution and Dirichlet Process

Shui Feng, Wei Sun

Published 2009-03-03, updated 2009-03-22Version 2

The two parameter Poisson-Dirichlet distribution $PD(\alpha,\theta)$ is the distribution of an infinite dimensional random discrete probability. It is a generalization of Kingman's Poisson-Dirichlet distribution. The two parameter Dirichlet process $\Pi_{\alpha,\theta,\nu_0}$ is the law of a pure atomic random measure with masses following the two parameter Poisson-Dirichlet distribution. In this article we focus on the construction and the properties of the infinite dimensional symmetric diffusion processes with respective symmetric measures $PD(\alpha,\theta)$ and $\Pi_{\alpha,\theta,\nu_0}$. The methods used come from the theory of Dirichlet forms.