Renewal theory for transient Markov chains with asymptotically zero drift

DOI10.1090/TRAN/8167zbMATH Open1454.60136arXiv1907.07940OpenAlexW3015571589MaRDI QIDQ5125063

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Publication date: 1 October 2020

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Abstract: We solve the problem of asymptotic behaviour of the renewal measure (Green function) generated by a transient Lamperti's Markov chain $X_n$ in $mathbfR$, that is, when the drift of the chain tends to zero at infinity. Under this setting, the average time spent by $X_n$ in the interval $(x,x+1]$ is roughly speaking the reciprocal of the drift and tends to infinity as $x$ grows. For the first time we present a general approach relying in a diffusion approximation to prove renewal theorems for Markov chains. We apply a martingale type technique and show that the asymptotic behaviour of the renewal measure heavily depends on the rate at which the drift vanishes. The two main cases are distinguished, either the drift of the chain decreases as $1/x$ or much slower than that, say as $1/x^{a}lpha$ for some $alphain(0,1)$. The intuition behind how the renewal measure behaves in these two cases is totally different. While in the first case $X_n^2/n$ converges weakly to a $Gamma$-distribution and there is no law of large numbers available, in the second case a strong law of large numbers holds true for $X_n^{1+alpha}/n$ and further normal approximation is available.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07940

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