Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis
Volume 14 (2001), Issue 1, Pages 11-25
doi:10.1155/S104895330100003X
Probabilistic analysis of the telegrapher's process with drift by means of relativistic transformations
University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Dipartimento di Statistica, Probabilità e Statistiche Applicate, Rome, Italy
Received 1 December 1999; Revised 1 June 2000
Copyright © 2001 L. Beghin et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The telegrapher's process with drift is here examined and its distribution is
obtained by applying the Lorentz transformation. The related characteristic function as well as the distribution are also derived by solving an initial
value problem for the generalized telegraph equation.