Divergence of a Random Walk Through Deterministic and Random Subsequences

Journal of Theoretical Probability

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 395-427

  Kesten, Harry ^a   Maller, Ross A ^b  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Divergence criteria; Laws of large numbers; Passage times; Random walks; Strong limit points

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031496512     PISSN: 08949840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022664500932     Document Type: Article

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