Multifractal products of stochastic processes: construction and some basic properties

Citation
Mannersalo, Petteri et al., Multifractal products of stochastic processes: construction and some basic properties, Advances in applied probability , 34(4), 2002, pp. 888-903
ISSN journal
00018678
Volume
34
Issue
4
Year of publication
2002
Pages
888 - 903
Database
ACNP
SICI code
Abstract
In various fields, such as teletraffic and economics, measured time series have been reported to adhere to multifractal scaling. Classical cascading measures possess multifractal scaling, but their increments form a nonstationary process. To overcome this problem, we introduce a construction of random multifractal measures based on iterative multiplication of stationary stochastic processes, a special form of T-martingales. We study the .2-convergence, nondegeneracy, and continuity of the limit process. Establishing a power law for its moments, we obtain a formula for the multifractal spectrum and hint at how to prove the full formalism.