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Analytic Evaluation of the Fractional Moments for the Quasi-Stationary Distribution of the Shiryaev Martingale on an Interval

Abstract

We consider the quasi-stationary distribution of the classical Shiryaev diffusion restricted to the interval [0,A][0,A] with absorption at a fixed A>0A>0. We derive analytically a closed-form formula for the distribution's fractional moment of an {\em arbitrary} given order sRs\in\mathbb{R}; the formula is consistent with that previously found by Polunchenko and Pepelyshev (2018) for the case of sNs\in\mathbb{N}. We also show by virtue of the formula that, if s<1s<1, then the ss-th fractional moment of the quasi-stationary distribution becomes that of the exponential distribution (with mean 1/21/2) in the limit as A+A\to+\infty; the limiting exponential distribution is the stationary distribution of the reciprocal of the Shiryaev diffusion.

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