Ladder heights, Gaussian random walks and the Riemann zeta function

Annals of Probability

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 787-802

  Chang, Joseph T ^a   Peres, Yuval ^a,b,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Analytic continuation; Boundary crossing probability; Ladder height; Random walk; Riemann zeta function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031516338     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aop/1024404419     Document Type: Article

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