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Universal Poisson-Process Limits for General Random Walks

January 17, 2019 [Sunday] @14:00 Dr. Iddo Eliazar (IMMI - Israel Math Museum Initiative) will give a talk on "Universal Poisson-Process Limits for General Random Walks".

Abstract

Set off from a large ensemble of independent and identically distributed random walks, run them for a long time, and take a snapshot of their positions; then, what will you see? To answer this question we take the ensemble-size and the running-time to grow infinitely large, and establish universal Poisson-process limits for the positions. Specifically, we show that the positions of general linear random walks converge universally to Poisson processes, over the real line, with uniform and exponential intensities. Also, we show that the positions of general geometric random walks converge universally to Poisson processes, over the positive half-line, with harmonic and power intensities. Examples of the linear random walks include: Brownian motions and Levy motions; motions with Ornstein-Uhlenbeck velocities and with Levy-driven Ornstein-Uhlenbeck velocities; fractional Brownian motions and fractional Levy motions; and Montroll-Weiss random walks. Examples of the geometric random walks include the geometric counterparts of the linear examples. Corollaries to the convergence results further establish that the minimal and maximal positions of the universal Poisson-process limits are governed by the Extreme-Value-Theory statistics: Gumbel in the case of general linear random walks; Weibull and Frechet in the case of general geometric random walks.

Place: Holon Institute of Technology, Faculty of Sciences, Seminar Room 424/8.
(Light refreshments will be served at 13:45)

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