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Sibirsk. Mat. Zh., 2009 Volume 50, Number 5, Pages 987–1009 (Mi smj2025)

Transient phenomena for random walks in the absence of the expected value of jumps

A. A. Borovkov, P. S. Ruzankin

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

Abstract: Let $\xi,\xi_1,\xi_2,\dots$ be independent identically distributed random variables, and
$$ S_n:=\sum_{j=1}^n\xi_j,\qquad\overline S:=\sup_{n\ge0}S_n. $$
If $\mathbf E\xi=-a<0$ then we call transient those phenomena that happen to the distribution $\overline S$ as $a\to0$ and $\overline S$ tends to infinity in probability. We consider the case when $\mathbf E\xi$ fails to exist and study transient phenomena as $a\to0$ for the following two random walk models:
1. The first model assumes that $\xi_j$ can be represented as $\xi_j=\zeta_j+a\eta_j$, where $\zeta_1,\zeta_2,\dots$ and $\eta_1,\eta_2,\dots$ are two independent sequences of independent random variables, identically distributed in each sequence, such that $\sup_{n\ge0}\sum_{j=1}^n\zeta_j=\infty$, $\sup_{n\ge0}\sum_{j=1}^n\eta_j=\infty$, and $\overline S<\infty$ almost surely.
2. In the second model we consider a triangular array scheme with parameter $a$ and assume that the right tail distribution $\mathbf P(\xi_j\ge t)\sim V(t)$ as $t\to\infty$ depends weakly on $a$, while the left tail distribution is $\mathbf P(\xi_j<-t)=W(t/a)$, where $V$ and $W$ are regularly varying functions and $\overline S<\infty$ almost surely for every fixed $a>0$.
We obtain some results for identically and differently distributed $\xi_j$.

UDC: 519.214.6+519.214.4

Received: 17.10.2008


 English version:
Siberian Mathematical Journal, 2009, 50:5, 776–797

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