Gaussian local limit and large-deviation asymptotics for Lévy measures with a nontrivial absolutely continuous part

Let μ\mu be a measure on (0,1](0,1] such that

xdμ<.\int x\,d\mu<\infty.

Allow μ\mu to have atoms and a continuous singular part, and suppose its absolutely continuous part is g(x)dxg(x)\,dx, with some 0a<b10\leq a<b\leq 1 and ε>0\varepsilon>0 satisfying g(x)εg(x)\geq\varepsilon for all x(a,b)x\in(a,b). Let TβT_\beta be the tilted sum of arrivals, and let YY be its standardized version. Gaussian local-limit and large-deviation conjecture. The density of YY satisfies

fY(y)12πey2/2f_Y(y)\to\frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}}e^{-y^2/2}

for every yy, with no assertion about a rate of convergence. Consequently, if TT has the possibly defective density ff, then

f(u)=β(u)2πeC(β)uβ(1+o(1)),f(u)=\sqrt{\frac{\beta'(u)}{2\pi}}e^{C(\beta)-u\beta}\left(1+o(1)\right),

where

C(β)=01(eβx1)μ(dx).C(\beta)=\int_0^1\left(e^{\beta x}-1\right)\mu(dx).

The conjecture would substantially weaken the regularity assumptions imposed on the density in the paper, permitting atoms and a continuous singular component; the claimed asymptotics are asserted without a convergence-rate estimate.

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Richard Arratia, Fred Kochman and Sandy Zabell, “Large deviation asymptotics for a random variable with Lévy measure supported by [0, 1]”, arXiv:1606.03524 (2016).

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