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Heavy-tailed random walks on complexes of half-lines

Menshikov, Mikhail V.; Petritis, Dimitri; Wade, Andrew R.

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Dimitri Petritis



Abstract

We study a random walk on a complex of finitely many half-lines joined at a common origin; jumps are heavy-tailed and of two types, either one-sided (towards the origin) or two-sided (symmetric). Transmission between half-lines via the origin is governed by an irreducible Markov transition matrix, with associated stationary distribution μk. If χk is 1 for one-sided half-lines k and 1 / 2 for two-sided half-lines, and αk is the tail exponent of the jumps on half-line k, we show that the recurrence classification for the case where all αkχk∈(0,1) is determined by the sign of ∑kμkcot(χkπαk). In the case of two half-lines, the model fits naturally on R and is a version of the oscillating random walk of Kemperman. In that case, the cotangent criterion for recurrence becomes linear in α1 and α2; our general setting exhibits the essential nonlinearity in the cotangent criterion. For the general model, we also show existence and non-existence of polynomial moments of return times. Our moments results are sharp (and new) for several cases of the oscillating random walk; they are apparently even new for the case of a homogeneous random walk on R with symmetric increments of tail exponent α∈(1,2).

Citation

Menshikov, M. V., Petritis, D., & Wade, A. R. (2018). Heavy-tailed random walks on complexes of half-lines. Journal of Theoretical Probability, 31(3), 1819-1859. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10959-017-0753-5

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Mar 6, 2017
Online Publication Date Mar 20, 2017
Publication Date Sep 1, 2018
Deposit Date Mar 13, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 13, 2017
Journal Journal of Theoretical Probability
Print ISSN 0894-9840
Electronic ISSN 1572-9230
Publisher Springer
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 31
Issue 3
Pages 1819-1859
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10959-017-0753-5

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