Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis
Volume 16 (2003), Issue 3, Pages 201-207
doi:10.1155/S1048953303000157
On the time of the maximum of Brownian motion with drift
School of Mathematical Sciences, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland
Received 1 October 2002; Revised 1 March 2003
Copyright © 2003 Emannuel Buffet. 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 distribution of the time at which Brownian motion with drift attains its maximum on a given interval is obtained by elementary methods. The proof depends on a remarkable integral identity involving Gaussian distribution functions.