Oscillating random walk on Z driven by its occupation time at zero

  • Date: 05/16/2007
Lecturer(s):

Alexander Roitershtein (University of British Columbia)

Location: 

University of British Columbia

Topic: 

I will consider a nearest-neighbor random walk X_n on integers with the
drift at time n (conditional on the past expectation of $X_{n+1}-X_n$)
equals to $-sign(X_n)f^{-1}(eta_n),$ where eta_n is the number of
visits to zero by time n and f(n) is a regularly varying function with
index $a geq 0.$ If a > 1, we show that the functional central limit
theorem with standard normalization sqrt{n} holds for X_n. In addition,
we prove that the law of the random walk is equivalent in this case to
the distribution of the simple random walk. If a is in [0,1), weshow
that the law of X_n/b_n converges to a non-degenerate (non-gaussian)
limit distribution. Here $b_n$ is an explicit regularly varying
function of index a/(1+a).

This is a joint work with Iddo Ben-Ari (UC Irvine) and Mathieu Merle (UBC).

Other Information: 

Probability Seminar 2007

Sponsor: 

pims