Physics & Spacearticle2026-09-29

First-Passage Time Distributions of a Brownian Motion Observed After a Random Delay

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Abstract

Suppose that a Brownian motion can only be observed after a random time τ . We are interested in the distribution of the time T required to record the first visit to a given threshold. The cases when τ has an exponential and an Erlang distribution are considered. A method to approximate the probability density function of T from its moments is also presented.

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Authors: Mario Lefebvre, Ibrahim Toure

Institutions: Polytechnique Montréal