Limits of discrete ladder blocks give running-infimum plateaus #
The change in the prefix infimum across one skip-free block is precisely one downward mesh.
theorem
BGW.StableTrees.runningInf_eq_of_tendsto_ladderBlocks
{M : NNReal}
{N : ℕ → ℕ}
(hN : ∀ᶠ (n : ℕ) in Filter.atTop, 0 < N n)
{B : ℕ → ℝ}
(hB : Filter.Tendsto B Filter.atTop Filter.atTop)
(ω : ℕ → ℕ → ℝ)
(hω : ∀ (n i : ℕ), IsSkipFreeIncrement (ω n i))
{f : Skorokhod.DLoc}
(hI : Continuous (runningInfLoc f))
(hu :
Filter.Tendsto (fun (n : ℕ) => Skorokhod.realStepPath (↑M) (N n) (B n) (ω n)) Filter.atTop
(nhds (Skorokhod.DLoc.restrict M f)))
(r : ℕ → ℕ)
(hfin : ∀ᶠ (n : ℕ) in Filter.atTop, walkHitTime (r n + 1) (ω n) ≠ ⊤)
(s t : ℕ → ↑(Set.Icc 0 ↑M))
(hs : ∀ (n : ℕ), ↑(s n) = ↑(ladderTime (ω n) (r n)) / ↑(N n))
(ht : ∀ (n : ℕ), ↑(t n) = ↑(ladderTime (ω n) (r n + 1)) / ↑(N n))
{a b : NNReal}
(hsa : Filter.Tendsto (fun (n : ℕ) => ↑(s n)) Filter.atTop (nhds ↑a))
(htb : Filter.Tendsto (fun (n : ℕ) => ↑(t n)) Filter.atTop (nhds ↑b))
:
Limits of finite ladder-block endpoints have the same running infimum. Reference: Billingsley (1999), Chapter 3.