We consider the simulation of sample paths of a fractional Brownian motion with small values of the Hurst index and estimate the behavior of the expected maximum. We prove that, for each fixed N , the error of approximation E max t∈grows rapidly to ∞ as the Hurst index tends to 0.Keywords Fractional Brownian motion, Monte Carlo simulations, expected maximum, discrete approximation 2010 MSC 65C50, 60G22
IntroductionA fractional Brownian motion {B H (t), t ≥ 0} is a centered Gaussian stochastic process with covariance functionwhere H ∈ (0, 1) is the Hurst index. The fractional Brownian motion is a self-similar process with index H, that is, for any a > 0,= means the equality of finite-dimensional distributions.