In this paper, we study the large deviations for Engel's series, Sylvester's series and Cantor's products from number theory.

Constrained diffusions in convex polyhedral cones with a general oblique reflection field, and with a diffusion coefficient scaled by a small parameter $\varepsilon> 0$, are considered. Using an interior Dirichlet heat kernel lower bound estimate for second order elliptic operators in bounded…

In K. Yano, Y. Yano and M. Yor (2009), limit theorems for the one-dimensional symmetric α-stable process normalized by negative (killing) Feynman-Kac functionals were studied. We consider the same problem and extend their results to positive Feynman-Kac functionals of multi-dimensional…

We produce the first example of bounding total variation distance to stationarity and estimating mixing times via orthogonal polynomials diagonalization of discrete reversible Markov chains, the Karlin-McGregor approach.

We consider a class of continuous-time stochastic growth models on $d$-dimensional lattice with non-negative real numbers as possible values per site. We remark that the diffusive scaling limit proven in our previous work [NY09a] can be extended to wider class…

A two-parameter family of exchangeable partitions with a simple updating rule is introduced. The partition is identified with a randomized version of a standard symmetric Dirichlet species-sampling model with finitely many types. A power-like distribution for the number of types…

Under very general conditions the hitting time of a set by a stochastic process is a stopping time. We give a new simple proof of this fact. The section theorems for optional and predictable sets are easy corollaries of the…

The $t$-Martin boundary of a random walk on a half-space with reflected boundary conditions is identified. It is shown in particular that the $t$-Martin boundary of such a random walk is not stable in the following sense: for different values…

We consider the random walks killed at the boundary of the quarter plane, with homogeneous non-zero jump probabilities to the eight nearest neighbors and drift zero in the interior, and which admit a positive harmonic polynomial of degree three. For…

We give a new, elementary proof of a key inequality used by Rudelson in the derivation of his well-known bound for random sums of rank-one operators. Our approach is based on Ahlswede and Winter's technique for proving operator Chernoff bounds.…