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Une preuve simple d’un résultat de Dufresne

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Séminaire de Probabilités XLI

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We give a simple proof of the following result by Dufresne [Duf90]: if {w s { s ≥0 is a linear Brownian motion and c a positive constant,

$$\mathbb{P}(\int_0^\infty {e^{ - w_s - cs} ds \in [a,b[} ) = \frac{{2^{2c} }}{{\Gamma (2c)}}\int_a^b {\frac{{e^{ - 2/u} }}{{u^{1 + 2c} }}du.}$$

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Bailleul, I. (2008). Une preuve simple d’un résultat de Dufresne. In: Donati-Martin, C., Émery, M., Rouault, A., Stricker, C. (eds) Séminaire de Probabilités XLI. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1934. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77913-1_10

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