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Fast Perfect Simulation of Vervaat Perpetutities

Probability 2016-11-28 v2 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

This work presents a faster method of simulating exactly from a distribution known as a Vervaat perpetuity. A parameter of the Vervaat perpetuity is β(0,)\beta \in (0,\infty). An earlier method for simulating from this distributon ran in time O((2.23β)β).O((2.23\beta)^{\beta}). This earlier method utilized dominated coupling from the past that bounded a stochastic process for perpetuities from above. By extending to non-Markovian update functions, it is possible to create a new method that bounds the perpetuities from both above and below. This new approach is shown to run in O(βln(β))O(\beta \ln(\beta)) time.

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@article{arxiv.1510.01780,
  title  = {Fast Perfect Simulation of Vervaat Perpetutities},
  author = {Kirkwood Cloud and Mark Huber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.01780},
  year   = {2016}
}

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14 pages, 1 figure