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Theory Stoch. Process., 2020 Volume 25(41), Issue 2, Pages 81–88 (Mi thsp320)

On a limit behaviour of a random walk penalised in the lower half-plane

A. Pilipenkoab, O. O. Prykhodkoc

a Institute of Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 3 Tereshchenkivska str., 01601, Kyiv, Ukraine
b National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, Kyiv, Ukraine
c National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, Department of Physics and Mathematics, 03056, Kyiv, Ukraine, 37, Peremohy ave

Abstract: We consider a random walk $\tilde S$ which has different increment distributions in positive and negative half-planes. In the upper half-plane the increments are mean-zero i.i.d. with finite variance. In the lower half-plane we consider two cases: increments are positive i.i.d. random variables with either a slowly varying tail or with a finite expectation. For the distributions with a slowly varying tails, we show that $\{\frac{1}{\sqrt n} \tilde S(nt)\}$ has no weak limit in $\mathcal D$; alternatively, the weak limit is a reflected Brownian motion.

Keywords: Invariance principle, Reflected Brownian motion.

MSC: 60F17; 60G50

Language: English



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