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Large exceedences for uniformly recurrent Markov-additive processes and strong-mixing stationary processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Tim Zajic*
Affiliation:
Stanford University
*
Present address: 422 Loma Vista, El Segundo, CA 90245, USA.

Abstract

We extend large exceedence results for i.i.d. -valued random variables to a class of uniformly recurrent Markov-additive processes and stationary strong-mixing processes. As in the i.i.d. case, the results are proved via large deviations estimates.

Type
Research Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1995 

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