Author:
Asmussen Søren,Sigman Karl
Abstract
A duality is presented for real-valued stochastic sequences [Vn] defined by a general recursion of the form Vn+1 = f(Vn, Un), with [Un] a stationary driving sequence and f nonnegative, continuous, and monotone in its first variable. The duality is obtained by defining a dual function g of f, which if used recursively on the time reversal of [Un] defines a dual risk process. As a consequence, we prove that steady-state probabilities for Vn can always be expressed as transient probabilities of the dual risk process. The construction is related to duality of stochastically monotone Markov processes as studied by Siegmund (1976, The equivalence of absorbing and reflecting barrier problems for stochastically monotone Markov processes, Annals of Probability 4: 914–924). Our method of proof involves an elementary sample-path analysis. A variety of examples are given, including random walks with stationary increments and two reflecting barriers, reservoir models, autoregressive processes, and branching processes. Finally, general stability issues of the content process are dealt with by expressing them in terms of the dual risk process.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering,Management Science and Operations Research,Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty,Statistics and Probability
Cited by
38 articles.
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