Amites Dasgupta
Under the direction of Professor G. Kallianpur
Normalized fractional Brownian motion (FBM), denoted by B_{H}(t), t\in
[0,T], is a Gaussian process with the following
covariance \[ EB_{H}(t)B_{H}(s) = (1/2)\{|t|^{2H} + |s|^{2H} - |t - s|^{2H}
\},\]
t\,s \in [0,T], 0
Geometric fractional Brownian motion (GFBM), an alternative model that has been
proposed for stock price processes, is defined and its properties are studied.
An arbitrage opportunity for GFBM is constructed to show that GFBM
is not a suitable model for a stock price process and parameter estimation
for GFBM is studied.
An approximation to FBM is also studied which uses a particular random walk and
converges weakly to FBM.