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

Itai Benjamini, Nathanael Berestycki

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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 L s le; 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-3/2 f(t) is integrable. We conjecture that this condition is sharp and present a number of open problems.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)539-558
Number of pages20
JournalAnnales De L Institut Henri Poincare-Probabilites Et Statistiques
Volume47
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2011

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Statistics and Probability
  • Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty

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