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On some applications of a symbolic representation of non-centered Lévy processes

By using a symbolic technique known in the literature as the classical umbral calculus, we characterize two classes of polynomials related to Lévy processes: the Kailath-Segall and the time-space harmonic polynomials. We provide the Kailath-Segall formula in terms of cumulants and we recover simple closed-forms for several families of polynomials with respect to not centered Lévy processes, such as the Hermite polynomials with the Brownian motion, the Poisson-Charlier polynomials with the Poisson processes, the actuarial polynomials with the Gamma processes, the first kind Meixner polynomials with the Pascal processes, the Bernoulli, Euler and Krawtchuk polynomials with suitable random walks.