quasistationary measures;
attractive processes;
hitting times;
Yaglom limit;
h process;
D O I:
10.1214/009117904000000487
中图分类号:
O21 [概率论与数理统计];
C8 [统计学];
学科分类号:
020208 ;
070103 ;
0714 ;
摘要:
We consider the symmetric exclusion process {eta(t), t > 0} on {0,1}(Zd). We fix a pattern A := {eta: Sigma(Lambda) eta(i) greater than or equal to k}, where Lambda is a finite subset of Z(d) and k is an integer, and we consider the problem of establishing sharp estimates for tau, the hitting time of A. We present a novel argument based on monotonicity which helps in some cases to obtain sharp tail asymptotics for tau in a simple way. Also, we characterize the trajectories {eta(s), s less than or equal to t} conditioned on (T > t).