RESEARCH ARTICLE

Light-tailed behavior of stationary distribution for state-dependent random walks on a strip

  • Wenming HONG 1 ,
  • Meijuan ZHANG , 2 ,
  • Yiqiang Q. ZHAO 3
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  • 1. School of Mathematical Sciences & Laboratory of Mathematics and Complex Systems, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
  • 2. School of Statistics and Mathematics, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing 100081, China
  • 3. School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ont K1S 5B6, Canada

Received date: 15 Apr 2014

Accepted date: 07 May 2014

Published date: 20 Aug 2014

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2014 Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Abstract

We consider the state-dependent reflecting random walk on a halfstrip. We provide explicit criteria for (positive) recurrence, and an explicit expression for the stationary distribution. As a consequence, the light-tailed behavior of the stationary distribution is proved under appropriate conditions. The key idea of the method employed here is the decomposition of the trajectory of the random walk and the main tool is the intrinsic branching structure buried in the random walk on a strip, which is different from the matrix-analytic method.

Cite this article

Wenming HONG , Meijuan ZHANG , Yiqiang Q. ZHAO . Light-tailed behavior of stationary distribution for state-dependent random walks on a strip[J]. Frontiers of Mathematics in China, 2014 , 9(4) : 813 -834 . DOI: 10.1007/s11464-014-0405-3

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