Limits of renewal processes and Pitman-Yor distribution
Bojan Basrak · Electronic Communications in Probability · 2015
We consider a renewal process with regularly varying stationary and weakly dependent steps, and prove that the steps made before a given time $t$, satisfy an interesting invariance principle. Namely, together with the age of the renewal process at time $t$, they converge after scaling to the Pitman–Yor distribution. We further discuss how our results extend the classical Dynkin–Lamperti theorem.