An integral test for the transience of a brownian path with limited local time

Itai Benjamini; Nathanaël Berestycki

Annales de l'I.H.P. Probabilités et statistiques (2011)

  • Volume: 47, Issue: 2, page 539-558
  • ISSN: 0246-0203

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We study a one-dimensional brownian motion conditioned on a self-repelling behaviour. Given a nondecreasing positive function f(t), t≥0, consider the measures μt obtained by conditioning a brownian path so that Ls≤f(s), for all s≤t, where Ls is the local time spent at the origin by time s. It is shown that the measures μt are tight, and that any weak limit of μt as t→∞ is transient provided that t−3/2f(t) is integrable. We conjecture that this condition is sharp and present a number of open problems.

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Benjamini, Itai, and Berestycki, Nathanaël. "An integral test for the transience of a brownian path with limited local time." Annales de l'I.H.P. Probabilités et statistiques 47.2 (2011): 539-558. <http://eudml.org/doc/242832>.

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abstract = {We study a one-dimensional brownian motion conditioned on a self-repelling behaviour. Given a nondecreasing positive function f(t), t≥0, consider the measures μt obtained by conditioning a brownian path so that Ls≤f(s), for all s≤t, where Ls is the local time spent at the origin by time s. It is shown that the measures μt are tight, and that any weak limit of μt as t→∞ is transient provided that t−3/2f(t) is integrable. We conjecture that this condition is sharp and present a number of open problems.},
author = {Benjamini, Itai, Berestycki, Nathanaël},
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keywords = {brownian motion; conditioning; local time; entropic repulsion; integral test; transience; recurrence; Brownian motion},
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number = {2},
pages = {539-558},
publisher = {Gauthier-Villars},
title = {An integral test for the transience of a brownian path with limited local time},
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volume = {47},
year = {2011},
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