Noise sensitivity of functions on the leaves of a binary tree is studied, and a hypercontractive inequality is obtained. We deduce that the spider walk is not noise stable.

Recently, Kalvin M. Jansons derived in an elegant way the Laplace transform of the time spent by an excursion above a given level $a>0$. This result can also be derived from previous work of the author on the occupation time…

We present a Gaussian correlation inequality which is closely related to a result of Schechtman, Schlumprecht and Zinn (1998) on the well-known Gaussian correlation conjecture. The usefulness of the inequality is demonstrated by several important applications to the estimates of…

This paper studies heavy traffic behavior of a G/G/1 last-in-first-out (LIFO) preemptive resume queue, by extending the techniques developed in Limic (1999). The queue length process exhibits a perhaps unexpected heavy traffic behavior. The diffusion limit depends on the type…

This paper provides transition probability estimates of transient reversible Markov chains. The key condition of the result is the spatial symmetry and polynomial decay of the Green's function of the chain.

We determine the law of the convex minorant $(M_s, s\in [0,1])$ of a real-valued Cauchy process on the unit time interval, in terms of the gamma process. In particular, this enables us to deduce that the paths of $M$ have…

Given a standard Brownian motion $B$, we show that the equation $$ X_t = x_0 + B_t + \beta(L_t^X), t \geq 0,$$ has a unique strong solution $X$. Here $L^X$ is the symmetric local time of $X$ at $0$, and…

Let $B(t)$ denote Brownian motion in $R^d$. It is a classical fact that for any Borel set $A$ in $R^d$, the volume $V_1(A)$ of the Wiener sausage $B[0,1]+A$ has nonzero expectation iff $A$ is nonpolar. We show that for any…

In this article we consider the sample covariance matrix formed from a sequence of independent and identically distributed random vectors from the generalized domain of attraction of the multivariate normal law. We show that this sample covariance matrix, appropriately normalized…

We provide a simple probabilistic proof of a result of J. Král and I. Netuka: If  $f$ is a measurable real-valued function on $\mathbb{R}^d$ ($d > 1$) then the set of points at which  $f$ has a strict fine local…