Berry-Esseen bounds for step-reinforced random walks
Abstract
We study both the positively and negatively step-reinforced random walks with parameter . For a step distribution with finite second moment, the positively step-reinforced random walk with and the negatively step-reinforced random walk with converge to a normal distribution under suitable normalization. In this work, we obtain the rates of convergence to normality for both cases under the assumption that has a finite third moment. In the proofs, we establish a Berry-Esseen bound for general functionals of independent random variables, utilize the randomly weighted sum representations of step-reinforced random walks, and apply special comparison arguments to quantify the Kolmogorov distance between a mixed normal distribution and its corresponding normal distribution.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2504.02502,
title = {Berry-Esseen bounds for step-reinforced random walks},
author = {Zhishui Hu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.02502},
year = {2025}
}