Excluding early long discrete blocks #
A hypothetical sequence of early long blocks has compact endpoint limits. Their running infima agree, contradicting the least-long-label property.
theorem
BGW.StableTrees.eventually_no_early_longBlock
{B : ℕ → ℝ}
(hB : Filter.Tendsto B Filter.atTop Filter.atTop)
{M : NNReal}
(ω : ℕ → ℕ → ℝ)
(hω : ∀ (n i : ℕ), IsSkipFreeIncrement (ω n i))
{f : Skorokhod.DLoc}
(hf : GoodLongExtractionPath M f)
(hu :
Filter.Tendsto (fun (n : ℕ) => Skorokhod.realStepPath (↑M) n (B n) (ω n)) Filter.atTop
(nhds (Skorokhod.DLoc.restrict M f)))
{H : NNReal}
(hHM : H ≤ M)
(hH : H < passageTimeMinus (firstLongLabel f) f + 1)
:
∀ᶠ (n : ℕ) in Filter.atTop, ∀ r ∈ longBlockSet n (ω n), ↑H < ↑(ladderTime (ω n) (r + 1)) / ↑n
Long blocks cannot end before a fixed time strictly below the first start plus one. Reference: Billingsley (1999), Chapter 3.