On an explicit formula for the distribution of the supremum (Q1305220)
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On an explicit formula for the distribution of the supremum (English)
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27 March 2000
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The author gives necessary and sufficient conditions that the moment generating function of the supremum of a random walk drifting to \(-\infty\) and generated by partial sums of a sequence of i.i.d. random variables, is a rational function.
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random walk
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supremum
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Wiener-Hopf factorization
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rational function
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