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  • Published: September 1991

Stopping distributions for right processes

  • Neil Falkner1 &
  • P. J. Fitzsimmons2 

Probability Theory and Related Fields volume 89, pages 301–318 (1991)Cite this article

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LetX be a transient right process for which semipolar sets are polar. We characterize the measures which can arise as the distribution ofX T withT a non-randomized stopping time.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University, 43210-1174, Columbus, OH, USA

    Neil Falkner

  2. Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego, 92093-0112, La Jolla, CA, USA

    P. J. Fitzsimmons

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This work was done while the first-named author was visiting the University of California, San Diego

The second-named author's research is supported in part by NSF grant DMS8721347

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Falkner, N., Fitzsimmons, P.J. Stopping distributions for right processes. Probab. Th. Rel. Fields 89, 301–318 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01198789

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  • Received: 07 September 1990

  • Revised: 05 February 1991

  • Issue Date: September 1991

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01198789

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