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Mat. Tr., 2005 Volume 8, Number 1, Pages 43–70 (Mi mt55)

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A Local Theorem for the First Hitting Time of a Fixed Level by a Random Walk

A. A. Mogul'skiia, B. A. Rogozin

a Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Abstract: For the sums $S(n)=X(1)+\dots+X(n)$ of independent identically distributed random variables with zero mean, we determine the first passage time
$$ \eta_y=\inf\bigl\{n\ge 1:S(n)\ge y\bigr\} $$
across the level $y\ge 0$ from below to above by the random walk $\bigl\{S(n);\,n=1,2,\dots\bigr\}$. We obtain a local theorem for this random variable, i. e., we find asymptotics of $\mathbb P(\eta_y=n)$ for a fixed level $y\ge 0$ as $n\to\infty$.

Key words: random walk, the first hitting time of a fixed level, the nonlattice distribution condition, the arithmeticity condition, nonlattice distribution, local theorem.

UDC: 519.21

Received: 15.12.2003


 English version:
Siberian Advances in Mathematics, 2005, 15:3, 1–27

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