Excursions and local limit theorems for Bessel-like random walks

Electronic Journal of Probability

Volumn 16, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-44

  Alexander, Kenneth S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bessel process; Excursion; Lamperti problem; Random walk

Indexed keywords

EID: 79751508919     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10836489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/EJP.v16-848     Document Type: Article

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