{ "id": "1706.05194", "version": "v1", "published": "2017-06-16T09:40:39.000Z", "updated": "2017-06-16T09:40:39.000Z", "title": "The spectral expansion approach to index transforms and connections with the theory of diffusion processes", "authors": [ "RĂºben Sousa", "Semyon Yakubovich" ], "comment": "24 pages", "categories": [ "math.CA", "math.PR", "math.SP" ], "abstract": "Many important index transforms can be constructed via the spectral theory of Sturm-Liouville differential operators. Using the spectral expansion method, we investigate the general connection between the index transforms and the associated parabolic partial differential equations. We show that the notion of Yor integral, recently introduced by the second author, can be extended to the class of Sturm-Liouville integral transforms. We furthermore show that, by means of the Feynman-Kac theorem, index transforms can be used for studying Markovian diffusion processes. This gives rise to new applications of index transforms to problems in mathematical finance.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2017-06-16T09:40:39.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "44A15", "34B24", "34L10", "60H30" ], "keywords": [ "index transforms", "spectral expansion approach", "connection", "associated parabolic partial differential equations", "spectral expansion method" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 24, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }