Generalized Images for Brownian First Passage to Monomial Boundaries
Abstract
We study the first passage of Brownian motion to a monomial moving boundary. For every integer degree at least two, we construct a time-independent signed image measure whose heat potential is the killed Brownian transition density on a nonzero interval of the natural Brownian time scale. The image density is determined by a second-kind Volterra equation in the image coordinate, not by the classical Volterra equations in time for the hitting density. Its kernel is an explicit Wright function, and the first-passage density is recovered afterwards from the boundary flux. Exponential bounds establish convergence, while a beta-moment transform connects the Wright kernel with the finite-order differential hierarchy previously obtained from transported moving zeros. A cubic numerical experiment independently checks the resulting density against simulated Brownian paths.
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BibTeX
@misc{hernandezdelvalle2026generalized,
title = {{Generalized Images for Brownian First Passage to Monomial Boundaries}},
author = {Gerardo Hernández-del-Valle},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.30298},
eprint = {2610.30298},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.30298},
note = {CC BY-NC-ND 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Generalized Images for Brownian First Passage to Monomial Boundaries
AU - Gerardo Hernández-del-Valle
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/21
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.30298
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.30298
AB - We study the first passage of Brownian motion to a monomial moving boundary. For every integer degree at least two, we construct a time-independent signed image measure whose heat potential is the killed Brownian transition density on a nonzero interval of the natural Brownian time scale. The image density is determined by a second-kind Volterra equation in the image coordinate, not by the classical Volterra equations in time for the hitting density. Its kernel is an explicit Wright function, and the first-passage density is recovered afterwards from the boundary flux. Exponential bounds establish convergence, while a beta-moment transform connects the Wright kernel with the finite-order differential hierarchy previously obtained from transported moving zeros. A cubic numerical experiment independently checks the resulting density against simulated Brownian paths.
ER -