Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/201640 
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Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Center for Mathematical Economics Working Papers No. 615
Publisher: 
Bielefeld University, Center for Mathematical Economics (IMW), Bielefeld
Abstract: 
We obtain so far unproved properties of a ratio involving a class of Hermite and parabolic cylinder functions. Those ratios are shown to be strictly decreasing and bounded by universal constants. Differently to usual analytic approaches, we employ simple purely probabilistic arguments to derive our results. In particular, we exploit the relation between Hermite and parabolic cylinder functions and the eigenfunctions of the infinitesimal generator of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. As a byproduct, we obtain Turán type inequalities.
Subjects: 
Hermite functions
parabolic cylinder functions
Turán type inequalities
Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process
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Working Paper

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