A class of self-similar stochastic processes with stationary increments to model anomalous diffusion in physics

In this paper, we present a general mathematical construction that allows us to define a parametric class of H-sssi stochastic processes (self-similar with stationary increments), which have marginal probability density function that evolves in time according to a partial integro-differential equation of fractional type. This construction is based on the theory of finite measures on functional spaces. Since the variance evolves in time as a power function, these H-sssi processes naturally provide models for slow- and fast-anomalous diffusion. Such a class includes, as particular cases, fractional Brownian motion, grey Brownian motion and Brownian motion.

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