A property of Petrov's diffusion
S. N. Ethier · Electronic Communications in Probability · 2014
Petrov constructed a diffusion process in the Kingman simplex whose unique stationary distribution is the two-parameter Poisson-Dirichlet distribution of Pitman and Yor. We show that the subset of the simplex comprising vectors whose coordinates sum to 1 is the natural state space for the process. In fact, the complementary set acts like an entrance boundary.