Local large deviations and the strong renewal theorem

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Abstract: We establish two different, but related results for random walks in the domain of attraction of a stable law of index alpha. The first result is a local large deviation upper bound, valid for alphain(0,1)cup(1,2), which improves on the classical Gnedenko and Stone local limit theorems. The second result, valid for alphain(0,1), is the derivation of necessary and sufficient conditions for the random walk to satisfy the strong renewal theorem (SRT). This solves a long standing problem, which dates back to the 1962 paper of Garsia and Lamperti [Comm. Math. Helv.] for renewal processes (i.e. random walks with non-negative increments), and to the 1968 paper of Williamson [Pacific J. Math.] for general random walks. This paper supersedes the individual preprints arXiv:1507.07502 and arXiv:1507.06790




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