First passage times for decoupled random walks

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Iksanov, Alexander, Kabluchko, Zakhar, Wachtel, Vitali
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866915711224381440
author Iksanov, Alexander
Kabluchko, Zakhar
Wachtel, Vitali
author_facet Iksanov, Alexander
Kabluchko, Zakhar
Wachtel, Vitali
contents Motivated by a connection to the infinite Ginibre point process, decoupled random walks were introduced in a recent article Alsmeyer, Iksanov and Kabluchko (2025). The decoupled random walk is a sequence of independent random variables, in which the $n$th variable has the same distribution as the position at time $n$ of a standard random walk with nonnegative increments. We prove distributional convergence in the Skorokhod space equipped with the $J_1$-topology of the running maxima and the first passage times of decoupled random walks. We show that there exist five different regimes, in which distinct limit theorems arise. Rather different functional limit theorems for the number of visits of decoupled standard random walk to the interval $[0,t]$ as $t\to\infty$ were earlier obtained in the aforementioned paper Alsmeyer, Iksanov and Kabluchko (2025). While the limit processes for the first passage times are inverse extremal-like processes, the limit processes for the number of visits are stationary Gaussian.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2601_03109
institution arXiv
publishDate 2026
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle First passage times for decoupled random walks
Iksanov, Alexander
Kabluchko, Zakhar
Wachtel, Vitali
Probability
60F10
Motivated by a connection to the infinite Ginibre point process, decoupled random walks were introduced in a recent article Alsmeyer, Iksanov and Kabluchko (2025). The decoupled random walk is a sequence of independent random variables, in which the $n$th variable has the same distribution as the position at time $n$ of a standard random walk with nonnegative increments. We prove distributional convergence in the Skorokhod space equipped with the $J_1$-topology of the running maxima and the first passage times of decoupled random walks. We show that there exist five different regimes, in which distinct limit theorems arise. Rather different functional limit theorems for the number of visits of decoupled standard random walk to the interval $[0,t]$ as $t\to\infty$ were earlier obtained in the aforementioned paper Alsmeyer, Iksanov and Kabluchko (2025). While the limit processes for the first passage times are inverse extremal-like processes, the limit processes for the number of visits are stationary Gaussian.
title First passage times for decoupled random walks
topic Probability
60F10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03109