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Teor. Veroyatnost. i Primenen., 2018 Volume 63, Issue 4, Pages 755–778 (Mi tvp5181)

This article is cited in 3 papers

First-passage times over moving boundaries for asymptotically stable walks

D. Denisova, A. Sakhanenkob, V. Wachtelc

a School of Mathematics, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, UK
b Novosibirsk State University
c Institut für Mathematik, Universität Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

Abstract: Let $\{S_n,\, n\geq1\}$ be a random walk with independent and identically distributed increments, and let $\{g_n,\,n\geq1\}$ be a sequence of real numbers. Let $T_g$ denote the first time when $S_n$ leaves $(g_n,\infty)$. Assume that the random walk is oscillating and asymptotically stable, that is, there exists a sequence $\{c_n,\,n\geq1\}$ such that $S_n/c_n$ converges to a stable law. In this paper we determine the tail behavior of $T_g$ for all oscillating asymptotically stable walks and all boundary sequences satisfying $g_n=o(c_n)$. Furthermore, we prove that the rescaled random walk conditioned to stay above the boundary up to time $n$ converges, as $n\to\infty$, towards the stable meander.

Keywords: random walk, stable distribution, first-passage time, overshoot, moving boundary.

Received: 12.03.2018
Accepted: 21.06.2018

DOI: 10.4213/tvp5181


 English version:
Theory of Probability and its Applications, 2019, 63:4, 613–633

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