Abstract:

The aim of this paper is twofold. First, it offers a novel formula to calculate the inner product of the bounded variation function in the Hilbert space ${\cal H}$ associated with the fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter $H\in (0,\frac12)$. This formula is based on a kind of decomposition of the Lebesgue-Stieljes measure of the bounded variation function and the integration by parts formula of the Lebesgue-Stieljes measure. Second, as an application of the formula, we explore that as $T\to \infty$, the asymptotic line for the square of the norm of the bivariate function $f_T(t,s)=e^{-\theta|t-s|}1_{\{0\leq s,t\leq T\}}$ in the symmetric tensor space ${\cal H}^{\odot 2}$ (as a function of $T$), and improve the Berry-Esséen type upper bound for the least squares estimation of the drift coefficient of the fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes with Hurst parameter $H\in (\frac14,\frac12)$. The asymptotic analysis of the present paper is much more subtle than that of Lemma 17 in Hu, Nualart, Zhou(2019) and the improved Berry-Esséen type upper bound is the best improvement of the result of Theorem 1.1 in Chen, Li (2021). As a by-product, a second application of the above asymptotic analysis is given, i.e., we also show the Berry-Esséen type upper bound for the moment estimation of the drift coefficient of the fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes where the method is obvious different to that of Proposition 4.1 in Sottinen, Viitasaari(2018).

Key words: Fractional Brownian motion, Fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, Berry-Esséen bound