@article{eprints2084, number = {4}, volume = {45}, title = {A generalized telegraph process with velocity driven by random trials}, author = {Irene Crimaldi and Antonio Di Crescenzo and Antonella Iuliano and Barbara Martinucci}, year = {2013}, journal = {Advances in applied probability}, pages = {1111--1136}, publisher = {Applied Probability Trust}, month = {December}, abstract = {We consider a random trial-based telegraph process, which describes a motion on the real line with two constant velocities along opposite directions. At each epoch of the underlying counting process the new velocity is determined by the outcome of a random trial. Two schemes are taken into account: Bernoulli trials and classical P{\`o}lya urn trials. We investigate the probability law of the process and the mean of the velocity of the moving particle. We finally discuss two cases of interest: (i) the case of Bernoulli trials and intertimes having exponential distributions with linear rates (in which, interestingly, the process exhibits a logistic stationary density with non-zero mean), and (ii) the case of P{\`o}lya trials and intertimes having first Gamma and then exponential distributions with constant rates. }, keywords = {telegraph process, random intertimes, random velocities, Bernoulli scheme, P{\`o}lya urn model}, url = {http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2084/} }