Persistence of iterated partial sums

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DOI10.1214/11-AIHP452zbMATH Open1274.60144arXiv1205.5596OpenAlexW3101904299MaRDI QIDQ372571FDOQ372571


Authors: Amir Dembo, Jian Ding, Fuchang Gao Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 9 October 2013

Published in: Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Probabilités et Statistiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let Sn(2) denote the iterated partial sums. That is, Sn(2)=S1+S2+...+Sn, where Si=X1+X2+...s+Xi. Assuming X1,X2,....,Xn are integrable, zero-mean, i.i.d. random variables, we show that the persistence probabilities p_n^{(2)}:=PP(max_{1le i le n}S_i^{(2)}< 0) le csqrt{frac{EE|S_{n+1}|}{(n+1)EE|X_1|}}, with cle6sqrt30 (and c=2 whenever X1 is symmetric). The converse inequality holds whenever the non-zero min(X1,0) is bounded or when it has only finite third moment and in addition X1 is squared integrable. Furthermore, pn(2)asympn1/4 for any non-degenerate squared integrable, i.i.d., zero-mean Xi. In contrast, we show that for any 0<gamma<1/4 there exist integrable, zero-mean random variables for which the rate of decay of pn(2) is ngamma.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.5596




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