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arxiv: 1802.06010 · v3 · pith:YMKGZB66new · submitted 2018-02-16 · 🧮 math.PR

Hitting Probabilities of a Brownian flow with Radial Drift

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We consider a stochastic flow $\phi_t(x,\omega)$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with initial point $\phi_0(x,\omega)=x$, driven by a single $n$-dimensional Brownian motion, and with an outward radial drift of magnitude $\frac{ F(\|\phi_t(x)\|)}{\|\phi_t(x)\|}$, with $F$ nonnegative, bounded and Lipschitz. We consider initial points $x$ lying in a set of positive distance from the origin. We show that there exist constants $C^*,c^*>0$ not depending on $n$, such that if $F>C^*n$ then the image of the initial set under the flow has probability 0 of hitting the origin. If $0\leq F \leq c^*n^{3/4}$, and if the initial set has nonempty interior, then the image of the set has positive probability of hitting the origin.

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