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Berry-Esseen bounds for step-reinforced random walks

Probability 2025-04-04 v1

Abstract

We study both the positively and negatively step-reinforced random walks with parameter pp. For a step distribution μ\mu with finite second moment, the positively step-reinforced random walk with p[1/2,1)p\in [1/2,1) and the negatively step-reinforced random walk with p(0,1)p\in (0,1) 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 μ\mu 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.

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@article{arxiv.2504.02502,
  title  = {Berry-Esseen bounds for step-reinforced random walks},
  author = {Zhishui Hu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.02502},
  year   = {2025}
}
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