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Let {Xi, Yi}i=1,2,... be an i.i.d. sequence of bivariate random vectors with P(Y1 = y) = 0 for all y. Put Mn(j) = max0≤k≤n-j (Xk+1 + ... Xk+j)Ik,j, where Ik,k+j = I{Yk+1 < ⋯ < Yk+j} denotes the indicator function for the event in brackets, 1 ≤ j ≤ n. Let Ln be the largest index l ≤ n for which Ik,k+l = 1 for some k = 0, 1, ..., n - l. The strong law of large numbers for “the maximal gain over the longest increasing runs,” i.e., for Mn(Ln) has been recently derived for the case where X1 has a finite moment of order 3 + ε, ε > 0. Assuming that X1 has a finite mean, we prove for any a = 0, 1, ..., that the s.l.l.n. for M(Ln - a) is equivalent to EX 3+a1 I{X1 > 0} < ∞. We derive also some new results for the a.s. asymptotics of Ln. Bibliography: 5 titles.
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Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Vol. 311, 2004, pp. 179–189.
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Martikainen, A.I. Asymptotic Behavior of the Maximum of Sums of I.I.D. Random Variables along Monotone Blocks. J Math Sci 133, 1308–1313 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-006-0040-y
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-006-0040-y