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The two-sided exit problem for a random walk on $\mathbb{Z}$ and having infinite variance II

Probability 2021-05-12 v3

Abstract

Let FF be a distribution function on the integer lattice Z\mathbb{Z} and S=(Sn)S=(S_n) the random walk with step distribution FF. Suppose SS is oscillatory and denote by Ua(x)U_{\rm a}(x) and ua(x)u_{\rm a}(x) the renewal function and sequence, respectively, of the strictly ascending ladder height process associated with SS. Putting A(x)=0x[1F(t)F(t)]dtA(x) =\int_0^x [1-F(t)-F(-t)] dt, H(x)=1F(x)+F(x)H(x)=1-F(x)+F(-x) we suppose A(x)/(xH(x))(x).A(x)/\big(xH(x)\big) \to -\infty \quad (x\to\infty). Under some additional regularity condition on the positive tail of FF, we show that ua(x)Ua(x)[1F(x)]/A(x)u_{\rm a}(x) \sim U_{\rm a}(x)[1-F(x)]/|A(x)| as xx\to\infty and uniformly for 0xRZ0\leq x\leq R\in \mathbb{Z}, as RR\to\infty P [ S\; \mbox{leaves $[0,R]$ on its upper side}\, |\, S_0=x] \, \sim\, c^{-1}A(x)u_{\rm a}(x), where c=n=1P[Sn>S0;Sk<S0c= \sum_{n=1}^\infty P[S_{n}>S_0;\, S_k < S_0 for 0<k<n]0<k<n] and the regularity condition is satisfied at least if SS is recurrent, lim sup[1F(x)]/F(x)<1\limsup [1-F(x)]/F(-x)<1, and x[1F(x)]/L(x)x[1-F(x)]/L(x) (x1x\geq 1) is bounded away from zero and infinity for some slowly varying function LL. We also give some asymptotic estimates of the probability that SS visits RR before entering the negative half-line for asymptotically stable walks and obtain asymptotic behaviour of the probability that RR is ever hit by SS conditioned to avoid the negative half-line forever.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2102.04102,
  title  = {The two-sided exit problem for a random walk on $\mathbb{Z}$ and having infinite variance II},
  author = {Kohei Uchiyama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.04102},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

41 pages; there were many minor mistakes of the the second version that are corrected in this one

R2 v1 2026-06-23T22:55:58.531Z