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Persistent random walks may have arbitrarily large tails
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 2016
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We give a probabilistic proof of a result of Shepp, that a symmetric random walk may have jump size distribution with arbitrarily large tails and yet still be persistent.
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