Skorokhod spaces and convergence of discontinuous processes.

Date/heure
15 mai 2025
09:15 - 10:30

Oratrice ou orateur
Virgile Brodu

Catégorie d'évènement
Groupe de travail Probabilités et Statistique


Résumé

What happens if we want to study the convergence of discontinuous real-valued stochastic processes, which is often the case for modelling purposes? For example, think of tracking the evolution of the population size of living species, where deaths are instantaneous negative jumps… In 1956, Skorokhod proposed a topology on the space of discontinuous functions, which is predominant today. The aim of this talk is to explain the simple and intuitive ideas underlying the construction of Skorokhod to facilitate its understanding, without going in the depth of technical proofs. If we have time, we will introduce measure-valued processes, with biological motivations, and explain how the Skorokhod construction can be generalized to more complex spaces such as these measure spaces.

Even if the present talk is self-contained, it can be seen as an introduction to the GdT of May, 22. I will also present my work about measure-valued processes during the GdT SIMBA of April, 24 (14h, Salle de Conférences). You are warmly welcome to attend one of these to discover some of my PhD research!