The higher moments of the number of returns of a simple random walk

DOI10.2307/1427452zbMATH Open0804.60060OpenAlexW4250141349MaRDI QIDQ4306643FDOQ4306643

Peter Kirschenhofer, Helmut Prodinger

Publication date: 19 September 1994

Published in: Advances in Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1427452

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zbMATH Keywords

generating functionsCatalan numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50)

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