Self-similar scaling limits of non-increasing Markov chains

Bernoulli

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1217-1247

  Haas, Bénédicte ^a   Miermont, Grégory ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

coalescents; Absorption time; Random walks with a barrier; Regenerative compositions; Regular variation; Self similar Markov processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 81455142036     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3150/10-BEJ312     Document Type: Article

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