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Lévy process



In probability theory, a Lévy process, named after the French mathematician Paul Lévy, is any continuous-time stochastic process that starts at 0, admits càdlàg modification and has "stationary independent increments" -- this phrase will be explained below. The most well-known examples are the Wiener process and the Poisson process.



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