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Recurrence properties of Processes with stationary independent increments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

J. F. C. Kingman
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University of Cambridge and Western Australia
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Let X1, X2,…Xn, … be independent and identically distributed random variables, and write . In [2] Chung and Fuchs have established necessary and sufficient conditions for the random walk {Zn} to be recurrent, i.e. for Zn to return infinitely often to every neighbourhood of the origin. The object of this paper is to obtain similar results for the corresponding process in continuous time.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1964

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