Stopped Lévy processes with applications to first passage times (Q1922138): Difference between revisions

The main part of the paper is devoted to the limit theorems for the stopped homogeneous process with independent increments. Such results are well-known for the random walks; so this paper can be considered as an extension to the case of Lévy processes. One of such generalizations is stated below. Let \({\mathbf E} X(1)=0\), \({\mathbf E} X^2(1)=\sigma^2\) and \(\{\tau(t)\), \(t\geq 0\}\) be a family of stopping times such that \(\tau(t)/t \underset n\rightarrow\infty {\overset {p}\longrightarrow} \theta\in (0,\infty)\) as \(t\to \infty\). Then \(X(\tau(t))(\sigma^2\theta t)^{-1/2} \underset n\rightarrow\infty {\overset {d}\longrightarrow} N(0,1)\) as \(t\to \infty\). Similar generalizations have been made for the first passage time, a law of the iterated logarithm and for a stopped two-dimensional Lévy process. In conclusion the author considers the perturbed Lévy process \(Z(t)=X(t)+\xi(t)\), where it is supported that \(\xi(t)/t \underset n\rightarrow\infty {\overset \text{a.s.}\longrightarrow} 0\) as \(t\to \infty\). Central limit theorem and law of iterated logarithm have been stated for the random variable \(\nu(u)=\inf\{t: Z(t)>u\}\), \(u\geq 0\).