Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics
- Braz. J. Probab. Stat.
- Volume 32, Number 1 (2018), 117-146.
On the exit time from an orthant for badly oriented random walks
Abstract
It was recently proved that the exponential decreasing rate of the probability that a random walk stays in a $d$-dimensional orthant is given by the minimum on this orthant of the Laplace transform of the random walk increments, provided that this minimum exists. In other cases, the random walk is “badly oriented” and the exponential rate may depend on the starting point $x$. We show here that this rate is nevertheless asymptotically equal to the infimum of the Laplace transform, as some selected coordinates of $x$ tend to infinity.
Article information
Source
Braz. J. Probab. Stat., Volume 32, Number 1 (2018), 117-146.
Dates
Received: September 2015
Accepted: August 2016
First available in Project Euclid: 3 March 2018
Permanent link to this document
https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bjps/1520046137
Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/16-BJPS334
Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3770866
Zentralblatt MATH identifier
06973951
Keywords
Random walk cones exit time Laplace transform
Citation
Garbit, Rodolphe. On the exit time from an orthant for badly oriented random walks. Braz. J. Probab. Stat. 32 (2018), no. 1, 117--146. doi:10.1214/16-BJPS334. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bjps/1520046137