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Tail behaviour of ladder-height distributions in random walks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Rudolf Grübel*
Affiliation:
University of Essen
*
Postal address: Universität Essen-GHS, Fachbereich 6 (Mathematik), Universitätsstr. 3, D-4300 Essen, West Germany.

Abstract

We give necessary and sufficient conditions for various results connecting the tail behaviour of a distribution with that of its right Wiener–Hopf factor.

Type
Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1985 

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