Higher order PDE's and iterated Processes

Erkan nane

Published 2005-08-15, updated 2005-09-01Version 2

We introduce a class of stochastic processes based on symmetric $\alpha$-stable processes. These are obtained by taking Markov processes and replacing the time parameter with the modulus of a symmetric $\alpha$-stable process. We call them $\alpha$-time processes. They generalize Brownian time processes studied in \cite{allouba1, allouba2, allouba3}, and they introduce new interesting examples. We establish the connection of $\alpha-$time processes to some higher order PDE's for $\alpha$ rational. We also study the exit problem for $\alpha$-time processes as they exit regular domains and connect them to elliptic PDE's. We also obtain the PDE connection of subordinate killed Brownian motion in bounded domains of regular boundary.