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A strong invariance principle for the elephant random walk

Probability 2017-12-18 v1

Abstract

We consider a non-Markovian discrete-time random walk on Z\mathbb{Z} with unbounded memory called the elephant random walk (ERW). We prove a strong invariance principle for the ERW. More specifically, we prove that, under a suitable scaling and in the diffusive regime as well as at the critical value pc=3/4p_c=3/4 where the model is marginally superdiffusive, the ERW is almost surely well approximated by a Brownian motion. As a by-product of our result we get the law of iterated logarithm and the central limit theorem for the ERW.

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@article{arxiv.1707.06905,
  title  = {A strong invariance principle for the elephant random walk},
  author = {Cristian F. Coletti and Renato Gava and Gunter M. Schütz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.06905},
  year   = {2017}
}
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