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A martingale approach for the elephant random walk

Probability 2018-01-17 v1 Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to establish, via a martingale approach, some refinements on the asymptotic behavior of the one-dimensional elephant random walk (ERW). The asymptotic behavior of the ERW mainly depends on a memory parameter pp which lies between zero and one. This behavior is totally different in the diffusive regime 0p<3/40 \leq p <3/4, the critical regime p=3/4p=3/4, and the superdiffusive regime 3/4<p13/4<p \leq 1. Notwithstanding of this trichotomy, we provide some new results on the almost sure convergence and the asymptotic normality of the ERW.

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@article{arxiv.1707.04130,
  title  = {A martingale approach for the elephant random walk},
  author = {Bernard Bercu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.04130},
  year   = {2018}
}
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