On the $Φ$-variation of stochastic processes with exponential moments

Abstract

We obtain sharp sufficient conditions for exponentially integrable stochastic processes $X=\{X(t)\!\!: t\in [0,1]\}$, to have sample paths with bounded $Φ$-variation. When $X$ is moreover Gaussian, we also provide a bound of the expectation of the associated $Φ$-variation norm of $X$. For an Hermite process $X$ of order $m\in \N$ and of Hurst index $H\in (1/2,1)$, we show that $X$ is of bounded $Φ$-variation where $Φ(x)=x^{1/H}(\log(\log 1/x))^{-m/(2H)}$, and that this $Φ$ is optimal. This shows that in terms of $Φ$-variation, the Rosenblatt process (corresponding to $m=2$) has more rough sample paths than the fractional Brownian motion (corresponding to $m=1$).