On exit time of stable processes

Piotr Graczyk, Tomasz Jakubowski

Published 2011-03-22Version 1

We study the exit time $\tau=\tau_{(0,\infty)}$ for 1-dimensional strictly stable processes and express its Laplace transform at $t^\alpha$ as the Laplace transform of a positive random variable with explicit density. Consequently, $\tau$ satisfies some multiplicative convolution relations. For some stable processes, e.g. for the symmetric $\frac23$-stable process, explicit formulas for the Laplace transform and the density of $\tau$ are obtained as an application.