We study the limit behavior of certain classes of dependent random sequences (processes) which do not possess the Markov property. Assuming these processes depend on a control parameter we show that the optimization of the control can be reduced to a problem of nonlinear optimization. Under certain hypotheses we establish the stability of such optimization problems.

Let Aff(𝕋) be the group of isometries of a homogeneous tree 𝕋 fixing an end of its boundary. Given a probability measure on Aff(𝕋) we consider an associated random process on the tree. It is known that under suitable hypothesis this random process converges to the boundary of the tree defining a harmonic measure there. In this paper we study the asymptotic behaviour of this measure.

New sufficient conditions for asymptotic stability of Markov operators are given. These criteria are applied to a class of Volterra type integral operators with advanced argument.

We determine the asymptotic behavior of the realized power variations, and more generally of sums of a given function f evaluated at the increments of a Lévy process between the successive times iΔn for i = 0,1,...,n. One can elucidate completely the first order behavior, that is the convergence in probability of such sums, possibly after normalization and/or centering: it turns out that there is a rather wide variety of possible behaviors, depending on the structure of jumps and on the chosen...

We consider a flexible class of space-time point process models—inhomogeneous shot-noise Cox point processes. They are suitable for modelling clustering phenomena, e.g. in epidemiology, seismology, etc. The particular structure of the model enables the use of projections to the spatial and temporal domain. They are used to formulate a step-wise estimation method to estimate different parts of the model separately. In the first step, the Poisson likelihood approach is used to estimate the inhomogeneity...

Let X,X₁,...,Xₙ be independent identically distributed random variables taking values in a measurable space (Θ,ℜ ). Let h(x,y) and g(x) be real valued measurable functions of the arguments x,y ∈ Θ and let h(x,y) be symmetric. We consider U-statistics of the type $T(X₁,...,Xₙ)=n^{-1}{\sum }_{1\le iLet{q}_i\left(i\ge 1\right)beeigenvaluesoftheHilbert-Schmidtoperatorassociatedwiththekernelh(x,y),andq₁bethelargestinabsolutevalueone.Weprovethat}$Δn = ρ(T(X₁,...,Xₙ),T(G₁,..., Gₙ)) ≤ (cβ’1/6)/(√(|q₁|) n1/12)$,$where $G_i$, 1 ≤ i ≤ n, are i.i.d. Gaussian random vectors, ρ is the Kolmogorov (or uniform) distance and ${\beta }^{\text{'}}:=E\left|h(X,X₁)\right|³+{E\left|h(X,X₁)\right|}^{18/5}+E\left|g\left(X\right)\right|³+{E\left|g\left(X\right)\right|}^{18/5}+1<\infty$.

The approach introduced in Janžura [Janzura 1997] is further developed and the asymptotic Rényi distances are studied mostly from the point of their monotonicity properties. The results are applied to the problems of statistical inference.

We present a robust method which translates information on the speed of coming down from infinity of a genealogical tree into sampling formulae for the underlying population. We apply these results to population dynamics where the genealogy is given by a $𝛬$-coalescent. This allows us to derive an exact formula for the asymptotic behavior of the site and allele frequency spectrum and the number of segregating sites, as the sample size tends to $\infty$. Some of our results hold in the case of a general $𝛬$-coalescent...

The aim of this paper is to extend the well-known asymptotic shape result for first-passage percolation on ${\mathbb{Z}}^d$ to first-passage percolation on a random environment given by the infinite cluster of a supercritical Bernoulli percolation model. We prove the convergence of the renormalized set of wet vertices to a deterministic shape that does not depend on the realization of the infinite cluster. As a special case of our result, we obtain an asymptotic shape theorem for the chemical distance in supercritical...

The aim of this paper is to extend the well-known asymptotic shape result for first-passage percolation on ${\mathbb{Z}}^d$ to first-passage percolation on a random environment given by the infinite cluster of a supercritical Bernoulli percolation model. We prove the convergence of the renormalized set of wet vertices to a deterministic shape that does not depend on the realization of the infinite cluster. As a special case of our result, we obtain an asymptotic shape theorem for the chemical distance in supercritical...

Motivated by the Watts-Strogatz model for a complex network, we introduce a generalization of the Erdős-Rényi random graph. We derive a combinatorial formula for the moment sequence of its spectral distribution in the sparse limit.

Two new examples are given for illustrating the method of quantum decomposition in the asymptotic spectral analysis for a growing family of graphs. The odd graphs form a growing family of distance-regular graphs and the two-sided Rayleigh distribution appears in the limit of vacuum spectral distribution of the adjacency matrix. For a spidernet as well as for a growing family of spidernets the vacuum distribution of the adjacency matrix is the free Meixner law. These distributions are calculated...

We derive the asymptotic spectral distribution of the distance k-graph of N-dimensional hypercube as N → ∞.