Source: Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Probab. Statist. Volume 44, Number 1
(2008), 170-190.
Let {Sn} be a random walk in the domain of attraction of a stable law
, i.e. there exists a sequence of positive real numbers (an) such that Sn/an converges in law to
. Our main result is that the rescaled process (S⌊nt⌋/an, t≥0), when conditioned to stay positive, converges in law (in the functional sense) towards the corresponding stable Lévy process conditioned to stay positive. Under some additional assumptions, we also prove a related invariance principle for the random walk killed at its first entrance in the negative half-line and conditioned to die at zero.
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