Cauchy's Principal Value of Local Times of Lévy Processes with no Negative Jumps via Continuous Branching Processes

Abstract

Let $X$ be a recurrent Lévy process with no negative jumps and $n$ the measure of its excursions away from $0$. Using Lamperti's connection that links $X$ to a continuous state branching process, we determine the joint distribution under $n$ of the variables $C^+_T=\int_{0}^{T}{\bf 1}_{{X_s>0}}X_s^{-1}ds$ and $C^-_T=\int_{0}^{T}{\bf 1}_{{X_s<0}}|X_s|^{-1}ds$, where $T$ denotes the duration of the excursion. This provides a new insight on an identity of Fitzsimmons and Getoor on the Hilbert transform of the local times of $X$. Further results in the same vein are also discussed.