Recurrence and transience property for a class of Markov chains

DOI10.3150/12-BEJ448zbMATH Open1284.60090arXiv1203.0447OpenAlexW3103884577MaRDI QIDQ2435239FDOQ2435239

Nikola Sandrić

Publication date: 4 February 2014

Published in: Bernoulli (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the recurrence and transience problem for a time-homogeneous Markov chain on the real line with transition kernel $p(x,mathrmdy)=f_x(y-x),mathrmdy$, where the density functions $f_x(y)$, for large $|y|$, have a power-law decay with exponent $alpha(x)+1$, where $alpha(x)in(0,2)$. In this paper, under a uniformity condition on the density functions $f_x(y)$ and an additional mild drift condition, we prove that when $limin{f}_{|x|longrightarrowinfty}alpha(x)>1$, the chain is recurrent. Similarly, under the same uniformity condition on the density functions $f_x(y)$ and some mild technical conditions, we prove that when $limsu{p}_{|x|longrightarrowinfty}alpha(x)<1$, the chain is transient. As a special case of these results, we give a new proof for the recurrence and transience property of a symmetric $alpha$-stable random walk on $mathbbR$ with the index of stability $alphain(0,1)cup(1,2).$

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.0447

zbMATH Keywords

stable distributionrecurrencetransienceHarris recurrenceFoster-Lyapunov drift criterionpetite set\(T\)-chain

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (60J05)

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