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Concavity and reflected Lévy processes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 July 2016
Abstract
Simple necessary and sufficient conditions for a function to be concave in terms of its shifted Laplace transform are given. As an application of this result, we show that the expected local time at zero of a reflected Lévy process with no negative jumps, starting from the origin, is a concave function of the time variable. A special case is the expected cumulative idle time in an M/G/1 queue. An immediate corollary is the concavity of the expected value of the reflected Lévy process itself. A special case is the virtual waiting time in an M/G/1 queue.
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