Limiting Distributions for Sums of Independent Random Products

Details Limiting Distributions for Sums of Independent Random Products Limiting Distributions for Sums of Independent Random Products

2009-04-27

arxiv.org/abs/0904.4127v2

Mathematics

Probability

31 pages

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Let $\{X_{i,j}:(i,j)\in\mathbb N^2\}$ be a two-dimensional array of independent copies of a random variable $X$, and let $\{N_n\}_{n\in\mathbb N}$ be a sequence of natural numbers such that $\lim_{n\to\infty}e^{-cn}N_n=1$ for some $c>0$. Our main object of interest is the sum of independent random products $$Z_n=\sum_{i=1}^{N_n} \prod_{j=1}^{n}e^{X_{i,j}}.$$ It is shown that the limiting properties of $Z_n$, as $n\to\infty$, undergo phase transitions at two critical points $c=c_1$ and $c=c_2$. Namely, if $c>c_2$, then $Z_n$ satisfies the central limit theorem with the usual normalization, whereas for $cc_1$. If the random variable $X$ is Gaussian, we recover the results of Bovier, Kurkova, and L\"owe [Fluctuations of the free energy in the REM and the $p$-spin SK models. Ann. Probab. 30(2002), 605-651].

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