A new combinatorial method for calculating the moments of Lévy area

Mon, 19/01/2009
15:45
Dr Daniel Levin (Oxford) Stochastic Analysis Seminar Add to calendar Oxford-Man Institute
We present a new way to compute the moments of the Lévy area of a two-dimensional Brownian motion. This is a classical problem of great importance, originally solved by Lévy. Our approach uses iterated integrals and combinatorial arguments involving the shuffle product (joint paper with Mark Wildon, Swansea).