For , use the continuous logarithm of the characteristic function, normalized to zero at , to write
Thus the deterministic drift is . In particular the last contribution is not the negative drift of a compensated unit-jump process.
Take a Poisson random measure on with intensity
Define the jump marks , , and . A realization with the required process law is the Poisson stochastic integral with finite intensity
where the three counts are independent Poisson processes of rates . Their characteristic functions multiply to
which is exactly the given expression. The constructed process is a Lévy process, and stationary independent increments make its entire finite-dimensional law determined by these one-time characteristic functions. This gives a representation in law of the specified process.
Equivalently, using its nonzero-jump measure, the Lévy measure is
and the unmarked representation is with intensity . The finite-jump case of the Lévy–Itô decomposition realizes this pathwise using the jump measure of a version of ; the integral is an uncompensated finite sum.
The atomic compound Poisson process with drift has càdlàg paths with finitely many nonzero jumps on every bounded time interval, linear slope between jumps, and no Brownian component. When , jumps of sizes occur at the stated rates; when , positive unit-jump rates combine to . When , the two symmetric marks have zero effect and are omitted from the Lévy measure; the process reduces to , so has no effect. If the paths are piecewise constant, and if also they are identically zero. All paths have finite variation on bounded intervals. As a check on the drift sign,