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Random Walks with Stochastically Bounded Increments: Renewal Theory

✍ Scribed by Gerold Alsmeyer


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1995
Tongue
English
Weight
1009 KB
Volume
175
Category
Article
ISSN
0025-584X

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✦ Synopsis


This paper develops renewal theory for a rather general class of random walks S, including linear submartingales with positive drift. The basic assumption on SN is that their conditional increment distribution functions with respect to some filtration PN are bounded from above and below by integrable distribution functions. Under a further mean stability condition these random walks turn out to be natural candidates for satisfying Blackwell-type renewal theorems. In a companion paper [2], certain uniform lower and upper drift bounds for SN, describing its average growth on finite remote time intervals, have been introduced and shown to be equal in case the afore-mentioned mean stability condition holds true. With the help of these bounds we give lower and upper estimates for H * U(B), where U denotes the renewal measure of S,, H a suitable delay distribution and B a Borel subset of R. This is then further utilized in combination with a coupling argument to prove the principal result, namely an extension of Blackwell's renewal theorem to random walks of the previous type whose conditional increment distribution additionally contain a subsequence with a common component in a certain sense. A number of examples are also presented.


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