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arxiv: 1305.5697 · v1 · pith:IPIGZHNPnew · submitted 2013-05-24 · 🧮 math.PR

The dimension of the St. Petersburg game

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Let $S_n$ be the total gain in $n$ repeated St.\ Petersburg games. It is known that $n^{-1}(S_n-n\log_2n)$ converges in distribution to a random element $Y(t)$ along subsequences of the form $k(n)=2^{p(n)}t(n)$ with $p(n)=\lceil\log_2k(n)\rceil\to\infty$ and $t(n)\to t\in[\frac12,1]$. We determine the Hausdorff and box-counting dimension of the range and the graph for almost all sample paths of the stochastic process $\{Y(t)\}_{t\in[1/2,1]}$. The results are compared to the fractal dimension of the corresponding limiting objects when gains are given by a deterministic sequence initiated by Hugo Steinhaus.

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