Cramer's estimate for a reflected Levy process

2005/05/12 by R. A. Doney, R. A. Maller
Mathematics · #math.PR #msc:60G51 #msc:60G17.

paper · pdf · doi:10.1214/105051605000000016

published as Annals of Applied Probability 2005, Vol. 15, No. 2, 1445-1450 · Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/105051605000000016 in the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)

arxiv created 2005/05/12 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

The natural analogue for a Levy process of Cramer's estimate for a reflected random walk is a statement about the exponential rate of decay of the tail of the characteristic measure of the height of an excursion above the minimum. We establish this estimate for any Levy process with finite negative mean which satisfies Cramer's condition, and give an explicit formula for the limiting constant. Just as in the random walk case, this leads to a Poisson limit theorem for the number of ``high excursions.''

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